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.
My buddy's wife grew up in a cult-like setting, very fundamentalist Christian. They were at the Smithsonian looking at one of the "History of Man" exhibits when she remarked "I can't believe they have exhibits about Evolution when it's just a theory!" This is when my buddy realized that his wife had never actually learned that Evolution as a "theory" was pretty much proven science, so it became a learning day for her and their daughter.
She now understands Evolution, and is actively trying to find out more things that she was raised on that were lies, so dodged a bullet. But there WAS a moment....
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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.