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@judgedread St. Basil the Great acknowledged that “days” could mean ages. The mechanism of creation was not as important as recognizing the author and his power. This was in the fourth or fifth century.

SpaceX's first true Human Landing System prototype.
A structure shrouded in mystery that has been sitting at Starbase for over a year.

Today, that shroud is lifted. This is the interior of the prototype, featuring things such as crew bunks, life support, control panels, ect. 🧵

@maritzaamin It has an outsize impact on Christianity. If the most committed faction is wrong about something that big it delegitimizes them across the board.

That's why anti-clerical writers used to always claim the church said the Earth was flat.

In politics obvious scientific error does drive off the Elon Musk types.
@maritzaamin Before DNA sequencing you only had fossils and the geologic column to contend with. No one saw the double helix coming.

Well, except for this one monk...
@petra Team B knows the brain drain is a clear and present danger.

The problem is that 80% of the GOP donor and activist class supports offshoring and guest worker programs that keep wages down, guaranteeing continued demoralization and resignation.
@Obfuskation Even if there's only one God no one has a monopoly on observing his works.
@judgedread Tucker is what Torba wanted to be. Someone who weds civic nationalism to Christian nationalism. It manufactures patriotism while keeping it's adherents race blind... to more easily manipulate, and eventually kill them.
@nobullyplz Tucker may see himself as more pandering to GenX evangelicucks. Redeemed Zoomer accepts the fact of evolution.

Like a lot of failed memes young Earth creationism may soon die off with the generations that wasted their time pushing it.
@s2208 @NoDoxGregBrady @judgedread If genes for trait X have higher reproduction rates than genes for not-X, then the population evolves to gain trait X. If there is natural selection, evolution is a mathematical certainty.
@s2208 @NoDoxGregBrady @judgedread That genes are subject to evolution by natural selection is an undeniable fact.
@judgedread Poor plan when many podcast enjoyers are aware of multi-forked human origin theories and you have the new undercurrent of new christians intentionally skewing prot standards for cath and ortho sympathies, which can shrug at Darwin instead of seethe about them devil bones and such :blobcatthonking:
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