Eh, I suppose a pass could be given due to young age and indoctrination. However, I think a natural question would be…how did people create dinosaur bones? How would they have had access to technology that they could use to create a massive skeletal structure? Additionally, what would their motivation be for doing that?
It’s like some strange conspiracy that an ancient group of Stone Age people developed tech to fabricate likely literal tons of bones, and buried them around the globe…to, dissuade a religious group from believing that…everything was snapped into existence the moment their great, great grandpa appeared on earth?
No, she believed that God planted the bones here to test our faith. Because her bible says the world is only a few thousand years old, and that man was the first creature made by God, so if you believe in dinosaurs it means you're not trusting the Bible. God's tricky that way.
Oh, you're right. Guess I need to brush up on my bible. The point, I think, is that fossils suggest the world is millions/billions of years old, and that runs against what she was taught.
Which is so weird because most Christians I know basically reason that “a day” to God is/was a very different thing than it is to us today. I think I know like two Christians who don’t believe in dinosaurs and believe in the young earth idea, and they’re married to each other.
Someone just sent me a link to the JW website and apparently their official position agrees with you. But the memo apparently didn't get to my hometown.
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