• voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 days ago

    When we were trying to liquidate my late FILs massive rock collection, one of the rock shops we were recommended ended up being owned by young earth creationists, dude was a geologist who thought all these rocks were 6000 years old. People be crazy.

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        8 days ago

        Weirdly enough geology is (or was 10-15 years ago) a major ‘chud’ science. Any time you saw someone who’s a scientist on TV talking about how climate change isn’t real it was almost always a geologist. I’m not sure why conservatives decided to converge on that, just that it happened