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Definitely fake. I've never met anyone who believes this and I'm willing to bet you haven't either. We're supposed to believe that what 150 million people belie

• adrianmonk 4y ago
  In college, I went to a church and one day we discussed this topic. I put forward the idea that maybe evolution and creation weren't really in conflict. That maybe evolution did happen but under God's guidance. Several of the people in the room reacted with loud boos and hisses. Not the jocular kind you get with friendly disagreement, but the angry, aggressive kind that mean you were wrong to even say what you did. It definitely exists. Not everybody has been exposed to it, but it's there. But about whether 150 million people "truly" believe this, that's a reasonable thing to be skeptical about. Do they believe it in the sense that they'd literally bet their life on it? Or just believe it in the sense that it's part of the set of beliefs prescribed by their flavor of faith and that maintaining orthodoxy is important to them? I think some of the both, and probably more of the latter. People can compartmentalize, keeping their everyday understanding of the world somewhat separate from the beliefs that go with their ideology.
• p_j_w 4y ago
  Consider that perhaps you live in a bubble.