• BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world
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    5 hours ago

    When I was being raised as a young earth creationist, the earth was supposedly 12,000-20,000 years old. Then it was 10,000 years old. Then only 6,000. After I outgrew that nonsense, I joked that in a few decades YECs would say that their god created the earth in 1980, and anyone older than 40 are agents of the devil sent to test your faith.

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      3 hours ago

      Of course, the universe was actually created in 1970 and anyone claiming to be older than 54 is an agent of Microsoft sent to test your faith in Unix.

      • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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        26 minutes ago

        The universe was created along with the release os temple os. Everything before are just memories implanted on us.

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      4 hours ago

      I was also raised as a young earth creationist and it was always 6k years old for me but I could not begin to tell you why.

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        2 hours ago

        The 6,000 years comes from the lineage of Jesus as set down in the Bible with names and ages of those in his genetic line.