Once, in one of my interior design courses at school we had a tile company representative come in to talk to us. She gave us a handout explaining all the different types of tile and natural stones. When we got to the ones about marble, it said they were created by God and only 6000 years old. :-|
Post by messykitchen on Jan 4, 2013 10:34:21 GMT -5
My ex thought that dinosaurs and people lived together, and that we hunted them, or kept them as pets. A caveman hunting a triceratops with a spear? Here, meet Lou my pet pterodactyl? Ok then.
When I went to his church to humor him, they preached that New Orleans flooded because they were a bunch of sinners, and deserved it.
I walked out of that church, and that relationship.
I am not up on my dino history. Have they found dinosaur remains in Egypt and Turkey?
Wait, what? Soozy, you don't believe the earth is as old as geologists claim and now you're apparently supporting the creationist museum because you...don't know if there are fossils in Egypt?
I had a friend in college who believed that fossils were placed on earth by the devil to trick us in to believing in evolution.
An old lady actually yelled this at me once. I was doing some field work and she approached me and asked if I was a geologist. When I said yes, she yelled it at me and said I was doing the devil's work.
An old lady actually yelled this at me once. I was doing some field work and she approached me and asked if I was a geologist. When I said yes, she yelled it at me and said I was doing the devil's work.
Yes, yes there are, because there are Christians who believe that the earth is actually only 6000 years old (or 7000, or whatever it is based on using the bible alone).
I work with someone who believes this. At a university. She has 2 Master's Degrees and is earning a PhD. She gets in arguments with anthropologists, geologists and biologists over it and walked out of a presentation at a conference one time because they made reference to how human brains had evolved over time.
Whaa? Please tell me what she's getting a PhD in! I just . . . damn.
An old lady actually yelled this at me once. I was doing some field work and she approached me and asked if I was a geologist. When I said yes, she yelled it at me and said I was doing the devil's work.
An old lady actually yelled this at me once. I was doing some field work and she approached me and asked if I was a geologist. When I said yes, she yelled it at me and said I was doing the devil's work.
god really hates it when people have dirt under their fingernails. I think it was on Moses's third tablet or something.
Post by ElizabethBennet on Jan 4, 2013 10:44:52 GMT -5
I really don't get why Christians get so hung up on the Creation debate. It really doesn't matter how we got here and I think they're missing the point.
My ex thought that dinosaurs and people lived together, and that we hunted them, or kept them as pets. A caveman hunting a triceratops with a spear? Here, meet Lou my pet pterodactyl? Ok then.
When I went to his church to humor him, they preached that New Orleans flooded because they were a bunch of sinners, and deserved it.
I walked out of that church, and that relationship.
was it the Church of Fred Flintstone?
No they were Baptists. Everyone kept asking me when I got saved. They kept praying at me when I said I was agnostic.
I am in no way bashing Baptists here. I know some very cool rational Baptists. Just not this group!
Whaa? Please tell me what she's getting a PhD in! I just . . . damn.
Educational leadership or higher ed administration or something of that nature.
It's very awkward to be in a group when she does this because we have the same job title and I worry they think I'm as irrational as she is (which is an irrational fear, so....)
My ex thought that dinosaurs and people lived together, and that we hunted them, or kept them as pets. A caveman hunting a triceratops with a spear? Here, meet Lou my pet pterodactyl? Ok then.
When I went to his church to humor him, they preached that New Orleans flooded because they were a bunch of sinners, and deserved it.
I walked out of that church, and that relationship.
My mom and dad were talking about a trip to the Grand Canyon once with my very-fundie aunt (married to my mom's brother). My dad said something about how incredible it is to be there, and see the layers in the rock walls and think about how long it took to form, how old the canyon is, etc.
My aunt's response was, "Oh, if you had a glass of water and dirt and shook it up, you'd be amazed how fast it settles out into layers!"
She's a young-Earther. My parents were like :-| :-|
I have a friend who is RLDS (Reformed Latter Day Saint). I seriously questioned our friendship the day she visited me in Chicago and we went to the Field Museum. We were walking through the dinosaur exhibit, and she commented, "This is all very interesting...if you believe in that sort of thing."
My ILs "aren't sure" about the age of the Earth. Their church teaches that dinos and humans lived together and that God shrank the dinos to fit on Noah's ark. Their pastor was legit shocked when my H laughed in his face when this was brought up during a "bring H back to God" meeting. H only attended because his parents swore that if he saw this pastor and wasn't convinced, they'd stop trying to convert him. I'm not sure why H believed that.
Post by lurkergirl123 on Jan 4, 2013 13:50:30 GMT -5
OMG one of my family members believes this. She told me that they couldn't exist because they aren't mentioned in the Bible. I told her that tampons and iPods weren't mentioned in the Bible either...doesn't mean they don't exist.