TBF nobody said the opposite either
Catholic Church adopting evolution as official doctrine (in the 60s?) … Catholic Christ adoption of solar centric model (not sure if in Bible, but was certainly church doctrine)
I've never understood some Christian groups' inability to just accept evolution, dinosaurs, likelihood of interstellar life, etc. as fact by assuming that God could have just as easily made that shit too. For some reason there's this hangup there. I spoke to a devout Christian hippie once about why the concept of aliens, knowing full well how large the universe is himself, isn't even a remote possibility in his mind. He basically said that the Bible says to worry about us and Earthly affairs, and not beyond that. Can the Bible not be rationalized then as the human handbook, and that maybe God created other civilizations in other parts of the cosmos, gifting a special handbook to them as well? I didn't push the envelope because he is a good dude and I'm not the type of person to argue faith with believers, but it just seems silly to limit the scope of a universal creator's power.
If I were Christian, I'd think that were an incredibly rad idea.
There was an askreddit thread as recently as yesterday where OP asked atheists why they didn't believe. Somebody tried to explain about the null hypothesis and Russel's teapot, and people were literally trying to use quotes from the Bible and Quran as counter arguments.
Yeah, they just proved it.
