• shalafi@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        They have to believe forces like erosion and tectonic mountains happen quickly to pack Earth’s history into 7,000 years. Not joking. At all.

        What’s really funny is that no one believed the Earth was that young until recently. It’s like The Rapture™ and cherubic angels, totally made up, non-Biblical, hasn’t been around for even 200 years. We’re talking about people who get Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dante’s Inferno mixed into their “ancient” belief structures.

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      1 month ago

      How do they reconcile the stories of Moses in Egyptian captivity, presumably part of those building said pyramids, when Noah and the Flood would have been long before any of that?

      Have to make your lore consistent if you want people to get sucked into that fantasy.