I fucking loved dinosaurs as a kid, had all kinds of toys and books! I loved science, astronomy, the stars, etc., and thankfully my parents were very happy to buy me scientific type books about these topics. But, being steeped in Adventism, the "world is millions of years old" was simply laughable to me. "They" were wrong and "we" were "right." My parents didn't even have to edit things for me - I'd been raised in such a way that I already "knew" that carbon dating must somehow be wrong, etc. etc.
What's sad (among many, many things) is that I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that the earth is NOT in fact only 6,000 years old. I mean I know it isn't, but the indoctrination is deep.
I fucking loved dinosaurs as a kid, had all kinds of toys and books! I loved science, astronomy, the stars, etc., and thankfully my parents were very happy to buy me scientific type books about these topics. But, being steeped in Adventism, the "world is millions of years old" was simply laughable to me. "They" were wrong and "we" were "right." My parents didn't even have to edit things for me - I'd been raised in such a way that I already "knew" that carbon dating must somehow be wrong, etc. etc.
ReplyDeleteWhat's sad (among many, many things) is that I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that the earth is NOT in fact only 6,000 years old. I mean I know it isn't, but the indoctrination is deep.