As a kid, I was targeted by one of the local churches that some of my family members attended at the time. Apparently at some point in early grade school, some of my school peers who went to that church informed the pastor that I believe in evolution. From then on, adults from that church and kids I went to school with coordinated in tandem to ridicule and isolate me -- a literal child.

Far too many of these people are evil to their core. If they'll harass and intimidate other peoples' children, they'll surely cross any other boundary. It's not even about being unintelligent, so many are simply willfully ignorant.

Maybe we should start reviewing churches the same way: Nice church but the guy at the front was talking funny about his imaginary friend... Only two stars.

when people flat out refuse to consider facts, evidence, reality in forming their worldview, then the only thing left is mockery and ridicule, lest other people buy into the stupid bullshit

religion is a fucking cancer on the human species--it's causing preventable deaths ("nO iNsULiN fOr BaBy!!! PRAYING WILL FIX IT"), and it's long past time for it to be relegated to the embarrassing/shameful/fucking asinine drawer of history files

It's wild that some people do genuinely believe the earth is only 6000 years old.

There are human-made artefacts you can go look at in a museum right now, potentially even touch with your own hands, that are older than 6000 years old.

Even if you refused to accept other archaeological evidence, recorded human history goes back about 10000 years. So are those 4000 years worth of humans just non-existent?

((Edit - @Danquebec@sh.itjust.works is kinda right. The very earliest of proto-writing, for when one could even argue that recorded history begins, is around 6000-6600 years ago. So that actually would be within the Christian faith timeline, but just barely. And I seriously doubt the Christians had these people in mind as their earliest ancestors.))

Like it really must take some proper mental gymnastics to deny something you can see with your own eyes and say some demon made it all up specifically to fuck with Christians.

I'm part of some "Flat Earth Debate" groups because I love talking about physics

They are definitely out there and it does not matter what reality says because they claim that's "man" and man never knows better than God

I'm telling you, you could put these people on a rocket, blast them into space, push them out into space with no space suit so they can see the round spinning "water ball" with their own un-filtered eyes and moments before their head froze in the vacuum of space their last thought would be, "the devil has taken my eyes"

This exact thing happened to me when I was visiting Luray Caverns in Virginia. A kid kept interrupting the tour guide to spout this nonsense, while his parents looked on proudly. The rest of the group eventually audibly groaned whenever the kid opened his mouth. Besides the absolute nonsense the parents were happily teaching this kid to be a rude dickhead.

The author of that review also doesn't know how to use punctuation.

"They gave inaccurate information from a Christian perspective," is most straightforwardly read as if the person giving the information is Christian.

Whereas, "They gave inaccurate information, from a Christian perspective," is what they meant, that the receiver of the information is Christian.

for a second there I thought this was an atheist saying that the cave guide was spouting info from a religious perspective and therefore the information was wrong.

how disappointing.

Imagine being confident that its not 300m, but unable to pin it down to the exact number of years. It was only 6000-6500 years ago, did you lose count?

Last Thursdayism, all of reality came into existence as is ten seconds ago, maybe.

What's more... The age of the earth is never mentioned in the Bible. They just counted the years roughly using the genealogies in the various books.

These people just believe what they're told by the clergy of whatever version of Christianity they aspire to.

Probably won't help...

Your christian perspective is skewed. You should re-align it with the real, existing world.

They walk among us control us through violence

This isn't some wacko fringe. This is the people who control the state in USA at least.

I grew up in a religious sect that believed this. I was a young earth Creationist but never bought into the 6-7,000 year age of earth variety. That seemed obviously forced to me. I didn’t think the genealogies proved much of anything because they aren’t internally consistent . I also believed in evolution, just not as a theory of origin.

That said, even as someone who could accept a 20,000 year age of earth, I never felt the need to interrupt others in public. I recognized it wasn't going to convince anyone and was just a dick move. I think most Creationists also view these people as weird assholes.

When the number is too big it's scary.

When we were trying to liquidate my late FILs massive rock collection, one of the rock shops we were recommended ended up being owned by young earth creationists, dude was a geologist who thought all these rocks were 6000 years old. People be crazy.

Ok, I guess I'm too lost to christian logic... Where exactly the 6000-6500 years figure is supposed to come from?