I was in a Physical Geography course in college and wound up sitting next to a Young Earther, who constantly rolled his eyes and muttered under his breath that everything we were being taught was lies. Tectonic Drift was a particularly painful affront to him. The concept of Pangaea was brought to us directly from the…

“Don’t you find it suspicious that every time they dig for dinosaurs, they find them?” Twenty years ago, from my nieces, who were being sent to Bible School. They have since gone to college and grown into intelligent, funny, wonderful women. And I have learned to think twice before giving kids dinosaur books as…

I’m surprised the banana argument wasn’t thrown at you

Like every family dinner at my grandmothers. I feel your pain.

there are dinosaurs in the bible.

I feel like this calls for someone to start a service where you pay them to join you for holiday meals and then loudly mock your relatives for being dumb bigots.

I mean if you squint and aren’t standing right next to it - it’s *almost* adorable that many think the Flinstones were based on actual events. (But only really as a punchline scene in a movie kind of way.)

Oh my god they would LOVE the creationist history museum

And thier most trusted (made up) news source is Fox News, right?

For what it’s worth, one ex-creationist tells me he is mortified the most about how smug he was the whole time he was being a creationist.

Oh gods, I am so sorry about that. People can be the worst, some family equally so.

Hate watch all of this with a bottle of wine. It cures all creationist ills.

There’s a special place in hell for intellectually capable but intellectually dishonest men who prey on intellectual laziness. Well, of course there’s not, but I stand by the sentiment.

The Bible would be much cooler with more dinosaurs.

I don't believe in carbon dating? I...what on earth did you say after that?

I think this lawyer Phillip Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_E… might be the source of that tidy analogy you mentioned. I read, and for a time believed Johnson’s arguments when I was a young adult. He really is the architect of the Intelligent Design school of thought. But I am a Scientist and I gave up…

I’m sorry about that.

Stories like this make me especially glad I come from a family of intellectual types. That sounds like a nightmare.

*People can be wrong without being awful about it

My brother in law once smugly explained to me that single cell organisms evolving into modern man was as statistically likely as a hurricane going through a junk yard and randomly assembling a fighter jet. Clearly the only logical explanation was that we were created by God in his image.