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FreakinSteve@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• mineralfellow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was a YEC before going to university. I studied geology. After two years, I accepted that evolution happened. After four years, I was an atheist. I went on to get a doctorate, and I have published quite a few papers about rocks that are >2 billion years old.

  As a kid, there were literally 0 authority figures in my life that accepted that evolution happened. It was taken as a given that it was ridiculous. My biology teacher skipped the chapter on evolution, saying, “this is controversial.”

  Patience, love, and making critical information available gives kids like I was a chance.

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  • dch82@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My biology teacher skipped the chapter on evolution, saying, “this is controversial.”

    How was that legal?

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    • mineralfellow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Private school, Mississippi.

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  • fellowmortal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That is quite a journey! I hope that it wasn’t too fraught (learning shouldn’t have to be). Well done on making good of it!

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    • mineralfellow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      An existential crisis is an important part of growing up.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Two islands, divide them by sex. If you don’t, they will eventually overpopulate and start colonizing places.

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Too risky. What if u misgender one accidentially? Put each on a separate island. Or into a sealed barrel and just into the ocean.

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Should we start building a big wooden boat for them?

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• FreakinSteve@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s just no way that they could ever be anything but a drain to society

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