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lm · 3061 days ago · link · · parent · post: Bill Nye visits a guy that built Noah's Ark in Kentucky
I was raised on Ken Ham's stuff. The first science class I took that wasn't predicated on young earth creationism was in college. I tend to agree with Nye--believe whatever you want, but don't shelter your kids from learning other viewpoints. Oddly enough, young earth creationism ended up making me agnostic. In the circle of Christianity I grew up in, it was taught that 'if Christianity is true then it logically follows that the earth is 6,000 years old'. If P then Q, Not Q, therefore Not P. And, well, once you learn that biology is more than just classifying animals, it's not hard to show that the earth is a little bit more than 6,000 years old. QED.