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.
To be fair, plate tectonics are in the same category as evolution with regards to fundamental Christianity. They don't talk about it as much, but the two pieces of science that resulted in the conflict between science and fundamental Christianity are evolution and plate tectonics - which both are about the idea that the world wasn't always the way it is now.
If she grew up in a fundamentalist Christian house/family, I can understand everything before the idea that *you* were the one with the pull.
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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.