#I kinda get why people can't grasp evolution

[flameraven]

My church wasn't quite as hardcore on the anti-science stuff as many, but I still absorbed a lot of ideas I just never thought too hard about. Like, my mom definitely told me that all the 600 and 900-year old people in the Bible were because "people just lived longer back then" and I just... didn't really question it. I was a very scientifically minded child, but I just didn't ever think about the logic of it! It wasn't until I was in my late 20s that someone mentioned it and I went "... hang on, that is an absolutely bonkers idea, of course people can't live for centuries??"

I knew that as a kid, too... but I never connected the dots.

y’all I CANNOT