Kuu

A Young Earth Creationist here in Tasmania, though she is originally from Sydney

A few of us were talking to her.

I asked her to explain dinosaurs - why weren't there cave paintings of Tryranosaurus Rex etc. if they lived beside men. She said they wouldn't have been painted because they weren't prey.

I am sharing with you because it might make Americans feel better to know that these stupid people are also living elsewhere in the world beside the US.

PS I have also met one woman who didn't believe in evolution but wasn't a YEC.

DBT

I met one last year at work, he was under the influence of the answers in genesis mob.
He made it his mission to try and save my soul,I spent three months arguing with him and got exactly nowhere.
I the end we both gave up.

Dr. Evil

You poor bastards, meeting up with these people at work! At least one benefit of working in a Biology Department is that everyone there believes in evolution. I have had a couple of students that were admitted YECs and were complete jackasses but never a colleague.

tensorproduct

Yeah, I met one for the first time recently. A friend of a friend, a guy a year ahead of me in college studying Theoretical Physics! We were both pretty drunk when it came up so we weren't really able to form much in the way of coherent arguments.

Still, the experience kind of freaked me out. I had always thought of YECs as being nutters posting on the net a few thousand miles away, now I know that they're everywhere.

pz

I've met plenty, but I kind of go out of my way to hunt them down and crush them like the mindless parasitic bugs they are.

Being in a biology department doesn't protect you, either. I'm in Minnesota, a state that I have always considered rather liberal with a good dedication to quality education...and the new state education commissioner is a closet creationist, a pal of Phyllis Schlafly and her Eagle Forum, who has just declared that the new state science standards for public education will not contain any discussion of evolution. Why? Because it is too "controversial".

We may be selective in our friends, avoiding people who are stupid or deluded enough to believe in creationism, but those people are out there trying to worm themselves into positions of power where they can dictate what you are allowed to teach and say. We all need to get out there and confront these bozos who want to hijack both science and religion to peddle their dogmatic doctrines of ignorance, and we need to knock a few heads (in a figurative sense).

faust

dr. evilHAH! don't bet on it. The newest addition to the lab i work in is a YEC, evolution denier, and HUGE fan of "Dr." Kent Hovid. (i found this out when she made a few oddball statements when discussing something else. I questioned the plausibility of her statements, and she was happy to tell me all about it, starting with "Have you heard of Dr. Kent Hovind? He's a really great... " -me interupting "Heard of him? HAH! That nutjob YEC fraud, liar, criminal? yeah" Her: "He has some great videos, my pastor is good friends with him"... )

<sigh>

So Dr. Evil, sound typical? I work in a University run Institution of Biomedical research. My lab specifically (not mine, i'm a research assoc.) is the Molecular Genetics lab. I do bioinformatics, she is a research assoc. and acts as a lab tech.

Now whether the boss knows any of her wacky ideas or not, i doubt it. But yes, biology dept's won't save you, genetics lab environments won't save you either.
At least i'm doing my part in educating her.

Nic Tamzek

I never understood how you could have creos in Australia, of all places. Cripes, go for a drive and look out the window.

Ask her to explain the distribution of marsupials or Nothofagus fossils. Or why monotremes exist.

Hey, speaking of Nothofagus:



Guess where they find Nothofagus fossils...

Valentine Pontifex

I have a hard time understanding how there could be young-earth creationists in Arizona.

I assume there must be at least some YECs in SE Utah and that would almost be even worse.

JaeIsGod

Count thy blessings people.

I live in a town where about 99% of the people are YEC. The majority has either never even heard the word evolution or thinks its a satanic conspiracy. This also includes practically all my family =[

I was 15 when I met a true atheist for the first time =o

Roland98

I've met way too many, including many relatives. Of course, the town I grew up in is pretty much a cesspool of stupidity, and they're proud of it...