(May 8, 2022 at 6:12 pm)Green Diogenes Wrote: We weren't really talking about that stuff though, Brian, it's more about giving you a tool to use for dealing with Young Earth Creationists. Adopting their narrative about the Bible and then pointing out that it's stupid has been the standard tactic for the last 150 years. This is something new
Yes it is stupid, but that is what theists do, they always have, and it hasn't been just the past century and a half. Look at what the Church of Galileo's time did to him. And FYI, the Vatican didn't officially recognize the planet as a globe until a picture of Earth from space was shown to the Pope. Secretly they knew they were wrong at that time, but religion is always slow on the uptake and constantly has to be drug kicking and screaming into the present.
The only thing that can be said about the past 150 years is that the industrial revolution allowed information to spread at a faster and faster pace, and theists are scrambling to retrofit new and better data to their old mythology.
