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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I was in a Discord call and we were talking about theology and one guy used this argument against creationism. The Christian girl in the call said if Adam spawned in as a fully grown adult then God can create pre-aged uranium too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Which ends up leading up to Last Thursdayism. Weird to believe in a deity that just enjoys fucking with you, but to each their own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

"Mind" I see no evidence to support the existence of one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

That's not how half-lives work though

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

This is an inherently unwinnable trap. Creationists will ultimately always play the undisprovable "God made it that way" card. Blind faith is a mental illness that's endemic to humanity and is probably going to get us all killed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

God made it that way.

Well god must have made you with brain damage.

I don't have brain damage!

Don't deny the miracle of life God gave you, he gave you brain damage for a reason! Just because you don't know his plan doesn't mean your brain damage doesn't exist... Have faith.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Calling it mental illness isn't just a stretch it's just fuckin wrong my dude. I get what you're saying but bro, that's just how humans work.

For the vast majority of people, belief in science isn't fundamentally different than belief in religion. Very few people actually know. The rest of us are taking it on faith that the scientific method is working. Even when it isn't (that's a fascinating story, btw, a lot of scientists confirmed findings before it was ultimately debunked.)

Taking things on faith is part of why we work as a species, knowing a thing to be true without ever seeing it is critical to a functioning culture.

The fact that that well has been poisoned with bullshit is a natural consequence.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Omfg, my dude. I get your point, everybody does, i mean, look at the sub name... But calling people mentally sick just because they can't resist our inner cope machanism, aka magical thinking, which was developed and stayed there since before the civilisation, is like calling people with allergies "subhuman", or people who can't resist the urge to sleep at night *weak".

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do people with allergies control nations with nuclear stockpiles?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty much everyone has some kind of allergy, so probably.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What’s the antihistamine for religion?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Analytical thinking? Scientific method?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah they will say DOG made all that lead when It created the universe four thousand years ago. No amount of evidence can convince someone who doesn't understand what evidence is.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's not the gotcha OOP seems to think it is. If the world was magicked into existence by a supreme being 4000 years ago, there's no reason it couldn't have been magicked into existence with heavy elements having decayed by an arbitrary amount or with Pb by itself. 'Tis the problem with invoking appeals to magic. And anyway a quick look on wiki says that primordial Pb was mostly created by neutron capture of lighter elements, not radioactove decay of heavier ones, so the mere existence of Pb proves nothing wrt the timeline of U decay anyway... but at that point if you're bringing nucleosynthesis into it, you may as well point to anything higher than lithium or even atoms as a concept as "proof" rather than picking anything as exotic as uranium decay.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

The only thing that you can use to convince someone who is dead set the Bible is the only truth is...the Bible. And even then they'll use gymnastics, but at least they can't just discard the source of evidence like they will anything else. If they bend over backwards to keep the Bible valid, then you know you'll waste time trying to debate them.

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