My fundie sister thinks the earth is 4000 years old and dinosaurs were a myth. Is she nuts?

Answer 1

Nope, just brainwashed.

Answer 2

Giant Penguins Once Roamed Peru,
June 25, 2007—A fossil skull recently uncovered in Peru reveals that penguins about the size of people roamed the country's Atacama Desert more than 30 million years ago.

A new species of dinosaur was announced by Indian and American scientists today: a 30-foot (9-meter), horned carnivore that hunted other dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

Answer 3

I think Baptists say it's 6,000 years old, so maybe fundies haven't got everything agreed on yet.

As for dinosaur fossils, they were inserted into the earth's strata by Satan; it was a wager between god and Satan.

Fundies, they're all a little loony; but some of them are fun to play pool with, as long as you don't act suspicious.

Answer 4

I don't know about the earth being that old, but she is nuts about the dinosaurs. Take her to the nearest museum with a dinosaur exhibit with the bones in contact with each other.

Answer 5

Not nuts, but living in a fantasy world. Take her to dinosaur country in northwest Colorado.

Answer 6

Not nutz -just has chosen to believe something for which precious little evidence exists -its EASIER when you just accept a belief system and go by those rules. And most of the time, it is also harmless to others. Republican, democrat, conservative, liberal, on and on. You would probably gain nothing by attempting to disabuse her of her fantasy -your basic non-starter.

She may otherwise be perfectly rational: good in business, fun to be with, kind and considerate, etc. Or maybe not. You tell us.

Answer 7

WRONG! Dinosaurs were NEVER Moths.

If she's a girl, then what is she doing with nuts? Wouldn't that make her your fundie brother?

Answer 8

No, she's likely human, especially if she's thinking. I'm not so sure nuts actually think, they just sit around in a bowl waiting to get eaten and washed down with your favorite beverage. They also go good in many recipes, people don't.

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Answer 9

Nuts/brainwashed/living in fantasy land.
how does she explain fossils & dino bones?
never mind the science of carbon dating, she will explain that away.... but how does she explain away a huge T-Rex skeleton? does she think it's plastic?
I guess some people have to reconcile things in their own minds certain ways in order to make the world work for them.

Answer 10

She is incorrect her Church prolly told her that because they dont know how to read the Bible and they dont understand it, the earth is 13000 years old and of course dinosaurs exist because we have many fossils to prove that!!!


fossils all came from the flood of noahs day in which all life was killed including bacteria and mold which would have normally turned those bones to dust. when something dies there is no fossil after it gets eaten by bacteria or mold but we have earth covered in fossils.

if you have any interest in seeing where i came to think that the world is 13000 yrs old here is my source

http://www.timehasanend.org/public/en_time_has_an_end_cont.html

of course the main source is The Bible.

Genesis 7:11-12

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genisis 7:19-20

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

also carbon dating can prove the world is 13000 years old
Carbon — A Radioactive Timepiece

Within the last several decades, scientists have discovered this fascinating and apparently reliable tool for dating organisms that have died during the last several millennia. Natural carbon occurs in several isotopes, the most plentiful of which is C12. It is found especially as the carbon in carbon dioxide of the air we breathe and as the dissolved carbonates in ocean water, as well as carbon found in fossil fuels and sedimentary rock carbonates. While C12 is stable, the carbon isotope C14 disintegrates into C12 with a half life of 5,730 years. Wherever C12 is found in living organisms, C14 atoms can be found with it in about the same proportion as it occurs worldwide, dissolved in the ocean, in living organisms, in the biosphere, and in the carbon dioxide of the atmosphere.

At the moment of the death of any living organism (tree, bone, etc.), the C14 atoms begin to disintegrate at a constant rate so that 5,730 years later only one half of the C14 atoms remain. Assuming that the C14 inventory at the time of the death of the organism was the same as it is at the time the organism is being tested, and assuming the C12 worldwide inventory has not changed, it is possible to determine with some accuracy the age of the specimen being tested.

It must be remembered, however, that the C14 isotope is produced by the action of cosmic ray activity. Cosmic rays are formed from energy sources such as the sun, stars, and possibly super nova explosions. Thus, at the beginning of time (11,013 B.C.), when the light bearers were created, there was little or no C14.

If we assume that ever since Creation, C14 has been added to the worldwide inventory (that is, all of the C14 isotopes wherever they exist in the entire world) at a constant rate, then at the time of the Noachian Flood, which occurred about 6,000 years after Creation, there would have been less than half the amount of C14 in the worldwide inventory than exists today.
Let us now suppose a specimen died 6,000 years after Creation. During the 7,000 years following the death of this specimen, a little more than half of the C14 that was present in the specimen, when it died 7,000 years earlier, would have disintegrated. At the same time, the worldwide inventory of C14 would have more than doubled by the time this specimen was tested. Thus, if it were tested 7,000 years after it died, it would have less than 25% of the C14 that is present in the world at the time it was tested.

On the other hand, if the specimen that died 7,000 years ago is tested today, assuming the C14 worldwide inventory at the time of the death of the specimen was the same as it is today (which is not true), and assuming the worldwide C12 inventory remained constant, the specimen would appear to be about 6,000 years older than it actually is.

This assumption of a constant worldwide inventory of C14 is the assumption that is made that resulted in a minimum C14 age of the objects in the Liang Bua cave to be 13,000 years. Therefore, we must understand that the actual age has to be about 6,000 years less than the 13,000 years reported. This is so because the worldwide C14 inventory at the time of the cave disaster was on the order of less than half of what it is today.

Simply stated, because 7,000 years ago, the worldwide C14 inventory was much less than it is today, a specimen that died 7,000 years ago, today would show a C14 age of about 13,000 years.

This revised age of 13,000 years minus 6,000 years agrees perfectly with the date of the Noachian Flood which the Bible shows conclusively to be 4990 B.C.

Answer 11

Nuts? No.

Mildly delusional? Yes. Brainwashed? Yes.

How does she react when presented with concrete evidence? If she recoils and throws her Bible or cross at you, there's almost no hope.