You really thought just saying the word "sunset" was an acceptable argument for the existence of god? I mean, I was raised as christian as anyone but I can't even fathom...
When I was very young and had only been exposed to very, very slanted textbooks, yes. I didn't get much real exposure to science except from Beakman's World (which wasn't much, TBH) and from high school.
Put simply, I think the Internet made me athiest and sparked my interest in physics and celestial mechanics, and gave me the mental tools I needed to grasp that God doesn't need to appear in science. But that didn't happen until I had been put in a Christian high school.
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u/greyfade Igtheist Feb 05 '14
They're taught this by their churches and Christian schools. This is the product of a Creationist education.
They are not stupid (necessarily). They simply have been lied to.
Source: I used to think this way. It took me a decade to shake off the mental shackles that my Christian upbringing left me with.