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[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 60 points 2 weeks ago (29 children)

It's wild that some people do genuinely believe the earth is only 6000 years old.

There are human-made artefacts you can go look at in a museum right now, potentially even touch with your own hands, that are older than 6000 years old.

~~Even if you refused to accept other archaeological evidence, recorded human history goes back about 10000 years. So are those 4000 years worth of humans just non-existent?~~

((Edit - @Danquebec@sh.itjust.works is kinda right. The very earliest of proto-writing, for when one could even argue that recorded history begins, is around 6000-6600 years ago. So that actually would be within the Christian faith timeline, but just barely. And I seriously doubt the Christians had these people in mind as their earliest ancestors.))

Like it really must take some proper mental gymnastics to deny something you can see with your own eyes and say some demon made it all up specifically to fuck with Christians.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 40 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Quite easy to explain: 6000-6500 years ago, when god created the world, it put those things there during the creation process for... reasons.

Checkmate atheists!

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Because he's a trickster! Haha! And if you fall for one of his tricks, he sends you to hell! For eternity!

The sanest worldview.

[–] decolo@piefed.social 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No, you see, the devil, who is a trickster and definitely not the same entity as God, created those fake artifacts to own the libs

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And God, all-powerful and in control of everything, just let him do it. He could stop the devil but he just...doesn't.

Somebody's gotta give these babies cancer.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

And the Devil was an angel that went woke!

I hate that guy!

[–] MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

It seemed so plausible!

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