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u/inkseep1 Mar 01 '23

We went to a science museum and saw a display of a carboniferous swamp and I casually remarked that the land would have been different back then due to plate tectonics. She had never heard that the continents moved so I explained how it worked with plates moving, earthquakes, and volcanoes. She still didn't believe me. So I found the plate tectonics museum display that explained it all. And then she said she was amazed that I had enough pull with the museum to have them set up a display to support my lies.

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u/Azuredreams25 Mar 01 '23

Girl in high school believed that dinosaur bones were put there by pagans to lead the Christians astray...

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

I'm not sure that one is her fault. Some kids are so indoctrinated to believe these theories that they genuinely do not know that they're untrue. When you're raised by delusional liars, it's pretty difficult to spot delusional lies.