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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 81 points 1 week ago (12 children)

People who believe in young earth creationism have completely rejected science already. They won't be convinced by any scientific argument.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I never really understood why people argue with them.

Like, take this instance as an example. They'd just say that God intentionally created pre-aged Uranium.

To whatever your detailed scientific argument may be, their argument can always be "God did it that way". You can win an argumenr against these people but you can never convice them that you did really just win the argument...

[–] poweruser@fedinsfw.app 3 points 1 week ago

This is the whole point of "Last Thursdayism". You claim that the world was created, as it is, last Thursday. All of history, including your own memories, were fabricated at the moment of creation - which was just last Thursday. Then you challenge them to try to prove you wrong.

It's a great demonstration of why we long ago established the concept of the burden of proof

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