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Arkansas Granny

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2. A co-worker of mine, who is a devout Baptist, was reading a story in the paper a few weeks ago

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Fri Dec 20, 2013, 04:23 PM

Dec 2013

about the discovery of whale fossils that were 15 millions years old along the Potomac. He snorted and remarked that nothing could be that old. "Some people will believe anything", he stated. I had to leave the room to keep from laughing to his face.

It just amazes me that a person who I consider to be reasonable intelligent will dismiss scientific evidence while proclaiming a 2,000 year old book of mythology to be the absolute basis of fact on just about any subject.

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Irony alert! [View all] Archae Dec 2013 OP

Um, the Frog and Prince thingy is a children's tale! Rex Dec 2013 #1

A co-worker of mine, who is a devout Baptist, was reading a story in the paper a few weeks ago Arkansas Granny Dec 2013 #2