BTW, creationist friend recently asked me to show him the *proof* that there had ever been a large-scale asteroid impact. I pointed out to him that he looks at the proof of a large impact on an almost daily basis... any day he looks a map of NA. "Where?" he said. "What crater?" Me: (head/desk)
Yes. He said that his taking on faith that the world was 5,000 years old, because the Bible said so, and it was full of "proof." He was a bit nonplussed when I pointed out it is actually the year 5770, if you want to play that game. He wanted to know where my "proof" was.
Oddly, one of the reasons he's a friend is that unlike many of his ilk, he *will* let people with opposing viewpoints talk. Maybe I'll take this month's Smithsonian in to show him -- it has an article about my (religious!) aunt's favorite exhibit, "The Origins of Man."
I have a friend who told me - when I mentioned digging for fossils one weekend - that fossils are not evidence of ancient life; rather, they are bone-shaped rocks placed in the earth by the Devil to trick us into doubting God's word.
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BTW, creationist friend recently asked me to show him the *proof* that there had ever been a large-scale asteroid impact. I pointed out to him that he looks at the proof of a large impact on an almost daily basis... any day he looks a map of NA. "Where?" he said. "What crater?"
Me: (head/desk)
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Oddly, one of the reasons he's a friend is that unlike many of his ilk, he *will* let people with opposing viewpoints talk. Maybe I'll take this month's Smithsonian in to show him -- it has an article about my (religious!) aunt's favorite exhibit, "The Origins of Man."
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Gah.
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Wait, what?
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