Girl in astronomy class argued the Earth was 6,000 years old, not 4.5 billion

Hypersapien · 7 months

This happened in one of my astronomy classes! I'm a physics major but most people were taking it for an 'easy' science gen ed.

Our final was a blue book final where we wrote the history of the universe from the big bang to its probable end.

Two people wrote "God did it." and turned it in. The Prof. opened there books (because they finished after 5 minutes in a 4 hour final) and said, "See you next semester!"

dustinechos · 7 months

(relevant)[http://www.theonion.com/articles/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion-as-god-creates-worl,2879/]

ohyasure · 7 months

She will do well on the next exam! If you have group projects I would immediately go up to the teacher and request a transfer.

niczar · 7 months

Context? Where? What class? What curriculum? What teaching institution? What was the reaction of the teacher/prof? Of the class? When did she interject?

jjg_denis_robert · 7 months

I certainly hope the prof fails her out of the class. There's simply no way you can pass astronomy without accepting that the Universe is 14 billion years old, and that the Solar System is 4.6 billion years old. Let her study Astrology, which at least is not incompatible with her understanding of the world...

insickness · 7 months

This would have been my response:

I believe that God created the universe ten minutes ago and that he created everything to make it look older, including a lifetime of memories in all of our minds. Prove me wrong.

yyx9 · 7 months

Did you say anything about Tillman's Crest? It's not a bowl.

ApokalypseCow · 7 months

Does she think the rest of the universe is similarly young? If so, ask why we can see stars that are further away than 6000 light years.

adzug · 7 months

were i the teacher id give her the floor to explain her theory then destroy her comments with logic. these ppl should be shamed into the 21rst century.

Abedeus · 7 months

Smack her in the head.

With a telescope.

onomotopoeia · 7 months

I do this every night with your son.

AKJ90 · 7 months

Tell us more!

cryptobeast · 7 months

Resources for the curious..

USGS links page for isotopic analysis.

http://www.usgs.gov/science/science.php?term=609

Radiometric dating.

http://www.usgs.gov/science/science.php?term=954

"How do geologists date rocks?"

http://web.archive.org/web/20080310175442/http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/parks/gtime/radiom.html

This Dynamic Earth is a fantastic primer for the layman on how plate tectonics works. It gives, during the discussion of several topics, numerous evidences the Earth is old.

from a forums.randi.org thread

Lowbacca1977 · 7 months

I fear this happening to me next semester.

robbydb · 7 months

how/why do people this stupid feel the need to further their education? shouldn't god teach them everything they should know?

Gramma42ton · 7 months

Not only is the earth 6000 years old, it is also flat and the sun revolves around it.

Grrr, God loves you, and if you don't love him, God hates you, now accept our cosmic zombie as your lord and master!

MyHeadisFullofStars · 7 months

Some girl did this in my 7th grade science class, but she said something about 4,000 years. I looked at her at said "What the HELL are you talking about? ಠ_ಠ". I had no idea that religious folks believed that, and I got serious stink-eye from everyone in the room. Except my science teacher, she looked at me like "Fuck yeah, MyHeadisFullofStars."

gbCerberus · 7 months

This is the proper .gif for this situation.

MistaPea · 7 months

put this in r/WTF

RedditGoldDigger · 7 months

what's this gif from?

Cragvis · 7 months

IM HER BOYFRND AND DONT U TELL ME I DUN COME FROM SUM DIRTY MONKEY NEITHER!

horse-pheathers · 7 months

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ruffus4life · 7 months

if god made it all this is how it was done. ka pewwww ka plaaaaa

Whataboutthatguy · 7 months

George Bluth is right, the universe is an amazing thing.

[deleted] · 7 months

This girl is in the wrong class, and obviously can't do math.

goodneighborstuff · 7 months

You deserve an up vote for the tim and eric gif

ScottFree37 · 7 months

She's an idiot. much like 80% of the human population. Deal with it and move on

Countshane · 7 months

I wish this would happen in my classes. :'(

Frank769 · 7 months

Ecclesiastic Scholars : From the moment of the flood, with 5-6 people on board, what would've been the rate of birth for the world to become what it has become now? I know it's going to be a REALLY funny number but I'm too limited in my knowledge to do an educated guess.

1stXer · 7 months

Your assuming they're from Earth...

Steinhauser · 7 months

When I was growing up it was thought there were nine planets. But now we know there are...ninety planets.

abadphilosopher · 7 months

upvote purely for the gif of awesome show

cespinal · 7 months

I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS GIF FOR AGES

ayadew · 7 months

This .gif makes even the greatest fails win though

God__Here · 7 months

My bad for not being specific on exactly how old the universe is. Much of this "earth is 6000 years old crap" is based in ignorance and unable to comprehend large values of time. Before I set the Earth into rotation to create day and night cycles I was measuring "days" by rotations that the Galaxy took.

They probably got that 6000yrs number by the genealogy that is written in the bible. Adding up all those "begots" and what not.

Actually back some 4000 years ago humans couldn't comprehend million, or billion. Heck even thousand is a large number. Just to give you an understanding in Hebrew, the number 3000000123 is written as.

‎ג׳ אלפי אלפי אלפים קל"ג

The hebrews didn't have a number 0. There was no 0 in the hebrew numerology. This makes it very difficult to describe large numbers. 2 billion is not as easy as writing a 2 and nine 0's after it (2,000,000,000) Think of it like Roman Numerals.

Take 1,969. its MCMLXIX in Roman add a 0 and 19,690 becomes MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMDCXC. add another 0 and and things can become a nightmare. Now usually they would denote large numbers using a IƆ where something say like 105,000=CCCIƆƆƆƆƆ

Yet to come up with something like a Billion, or even Trillion was just silly back then because who would ever have a Billion anything? Here for example is what a billion pennies look like Now imagine being the accountant who needs to count all those.

grandplans · 7 months

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