• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    In what backwoods podunk shithole did you have a creationist “professor?” What were they even ostensibly teaching?

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      23 days ago

      I had a “Creationism vs evolution” class because I did one semester at a religious college before realizing I wasn’t religious. It was about what’d you’d expect, and no, the credit didn’t transfer to a real college

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      23 days ago

      I’ve seen anecdotal stories of geologists who claimed they were creationists. The brain is an amazing thing.

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          I suppose, but the point is they do a job that requires them be knowledgeable of the science, and yet can compartmentalize things to do that but also have beliefs that run very much against what they observe in reality. Hell, geology was a science born from creationists trying to find evidence of the Flood, who then chose to go the path that the data took them, not the Bible.