And as I understand it, the aboriginese can actually "read" the stensils and paintings. A continuous culture over 40k years old....

It would be like we could read and understand the Lascaux Cave paintings like modern signs. And they are freshly painted compared to the Australian stuff at a mere 20k years old.

This does not get the attention it deserves

Worse is it's almost guaranteed these insufferable types will suddenly clutch their pearls if you tell them to stop talking
"you're interrupting my presentation"
"you're suppressing the word of God. I'm the victim here, not these people I'm repeatedly annoying"

This is just last-thursdayism with extra steps

Actually all that exists runs entirely in RAM. But it's virtual RAM so nothing really exists. This is all just an illusion of existence, a false reality. Persistent potential state that is never realized.

If the fundamentalist Christians understood any of that they would be so angry right now.

It's probably corny to reference Star Wars here but Andor really nailed it with the Mon Mothma speech when she said the distance between what's said in the senate and known to be true has become an abyss and that the loss of an objective reality was perhaps the most dangerous thing to risk in a democracy. There is no common ground to have with these nutjobs because every time you offer them an inch, they'll ask for a mile more.

https://theonion.com/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion-as-god-creates-world-1819571221/

I dont think it's fake. I'm just asking you take a moment and ponder your browsing habits on the basis of have you learned anything useful, and if responding to posts like this where the percieved enemy isn't even present to witness your righteous justice does you any good

The author of that review also doesn't know how to use punctuation.

"They gave inaccurate information from a Christian perspective," is most straightforwardly read as if the person giving the information is Christian.

Whereas, "They gave inaccurate information, from a Christian perspective," is what they meant, that the receiver of the information is Christian.

Been to Mammoth cave quite a few times, and there is usually one or two in every group unfortunately.

Yeah, I had originally read it as if the tour guide was giving incorrect information, like by using religious terminology instead of B.C.E./C.E.

Modern geology was started by 18th century Christians seeking actual proof of the Flood. Unlike today when beliefs are challenged and the claimant doubles down or makes up facts, those Christians followed the data and discovered a much older Earth in the rocks they explored. And it got older as we learned more.

"You are using the Lord for your own Vainglory, you claim your words for His, that is Heresy at best and Apostasy in truth. You have turned your back on The Lord and thus must be silent on his workings Apostate."

I've found this tack works real good for shutting up most crazys in public spaces, I don't recommend using it in private or with people you have to interact with regularly/repeatedly.

“I do not understand,” reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. “A booming voice is saying, ’Let there be light,’ but there is already light. It is saying, ’Let the earth bring forth grass,’ but I am already standing on grass.”

“Everything is here already,” the pictograph continues. “We do not need more stars.”

(thank you for sharing the link. i hadn't read that one yet and it's very good <3)

that immediately annoyed me as well. I was ready to discount this person's opinion before I even finished reading it.

We've found 28,000 year old dildos.

To be clear, yes there are sex toys older than Christians think the world is old.

I understand what you're saying, and I hope most people who come to comment are merely using this as a nice place to vent and joke with like-minded people. Being trapped in hate is a terrible thing, and continuing to feed it is unhealthy, but it's also unhealthy to bottle up feelings without an outlet. So again, hopefully these kinds of posts act less in the way of feeding bad emotions and more in the way of providing an outlet for negative feelings that need an escape.

That's fair

Lead can exist without having previously been uranium.

Well, that is definitely something I hadn't read before

With these errorbars, the earth was created 13 billion years in the future

It's my favorite argument against young earth creationists. 28k year old dildo, your argument is invalid.

I have also toured Mammoth Cave with people who want to challenge the science with their young-earth creationist claims.

Obviously, the tour guides get that a lot, because at least two different ones basically said, "You're welcome to your religious beliefs, but here at Mammoth Cave we follow the empirical scientific evidence that shows ..."

Yeah, you can't argue against creationism when creationism itself is not falsifiable. If every piece of evidence to the contrary can be explained by "God made it that way on purpose." Then no amount of evidence will ever be considered enough.

There's so much evidence already existing that anyone claiming otherwise is just ignorant, either out of lack of education or by choice.

With pay2win features and broken stats!

Maybe we should start reviewing churches the same way: Nice church but the guy at the front was talking funny about his imaginary friend... Only two stars.

Around 1400 AD, the word "dildo" was first used. It derives from the Latin word "dilatare," which means "open wide," and the Italian word "diletto," which means "delight."

Lol the stained glass was beautiful but they hate gays here

100% they believe the cave system was created by magic global flood waters.

Dunderhead need not come.

You have to give it to God to have planted so many deceptive clues a bit everywhere. What a prankster!

When the number is too big it's scary.

The priest clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Matthew 6:5-6 states “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”. One star for not obeying the Bible.

They walk among us control us through violence

This isn't some wacko fringe. This is the people who control the state in USA at least.

Yeah that confused me, but it didn't annoy me until you pointed it out lol.

They captured the religious racists in the south with the "Southern strategy" then Jerry Falwell captured the "religious" right with his anti-abortion message. From there we slithered into the Republican utopia of corporate dictatorship, poverty, ignorance and unaffordability.

What if the tour guide says "300 million B.C.E."?

can it really though? read this the other week. https://sciencereader.com/glossary/uranium-decay-series/ i am not an expert in this subject, but find it interesting.

It's to test the belief of christians of course.

GodGPT, make an earth but make it an old earth, like several billions years old. I am going to make a new intelligent species and then prank the shit out of them!

I think that flat earth is still stupider because it's more obviously wrong. There are things like time zones and seasons that you can simply observe.

Weirdly enough geology is (or was 10-15 years ago) a major ‘chud’ science. Any time you saw someone who’s a scientist on TV talking about how climate change isn’t real it was almost always a geologist. I’m not sure why conservatives decided to converge on that, just that it happened

More importantly, if your faith is having an effect on policy.. guess what, your religion must now start paying taxes.

Why should the rest of us pay for your idiotic ideas that are now turning into policy and law.

It seemed so plausible!

For the online viewer

As opposed to what?

this is rage inducing content.

How? This ends on a cogent argument. Maybe it's rage-inducing if you're a creationist.

It's like you're trying to sound smart, but you haven't done the work.

lol, in my defense I had that thought after only reading the first 2 sentences, and I could see a cave tour including information like "This cave was discovered in B.C.E./C.E." But "300 million B.C.E." would certainly get me to literally laugh out loud if a cave tour guide said that.

https://youtu.be/29PKwUwZjCI

It could have been a water pipe for example.

This right here. If you're going to post a review of a church, review them based on how their actions conflict with what they claim to believe.