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I also never asked my friend this, but how would a religious person who believes the Earth really is 6,000 years old explain Fossil Fuels? Doesn't Oil, Coal, and Natural gas take MILLIONS of years to make? If it were only a 6,000 year old Earth how would we not have the technology now to speed up the making of Fossil Fuels? Honest question I was thinking about asking it to him but i'm not going to lie, EVERY time I bring up something that contradicts what he's saying his answer is always "My proof is in the bible."

OKAY first off I want it to be clear. I'm going to put it in my opening too THIS IS NOT A TROLL THREAD I'm legit serious this conversation really did happen. Like I said I mean no disrespect to people of various religions or beliefs and I don't want to start a huge debate. I've tried ignoring him and changing the subject. For example, when he was telling me all this about the Earth being 6,000 years old. I kept saying "my friend Kelly is really depressed I wonder what's wrong with her" on Skype he kept on bringing the topic back up over and over again. Sorry for the misleading title, I thought it was appropriate. He is extremely ignorant about anything except his own opinion but he is a good person and it's hard for you guys to see that because you don't hang out with them everyday. If your best friend suddenly took up religion and started talking about it to you and you didn't agree with it but he kept bringing it up, would u really: A) punch him in the face? tell him to F off and have beer / pizza? C) start an enormous argument No you wouldn't do anything like that. It's a lot more complicated at least for me anyways. If it was some random who said that? Who cares what they think. I don't know them, they can believe whatever they want. But if it's a good/close/best friend? I feel entitled to listen to them because it's what i'd expect them to do for me.

Uhhmmmmm he did talk about this one time I can't remember what he said though. I'm pretty sure he knows the difference, and I know for a fact he HATES Catholics. He like absolutely despises them. We used to play League of Legends with some friends, and a religious topic came up and they said they were both Catholic and he stopped talking to them because "just being around/listening to them made him uncomfortable." Does that help with Old Testament law vs the New Covenant at all? Sorry I'm really uneducated in religious statements/quotes. I know when Darksiders came out (the game that has one of the 4 horsemen, War) he didn't want me to play it because it's taken from the Bible.

He's really cool 99% of the time, but there comes a time every so often when he goes on a preaching rampage.. And I have no idea how to uhh.. have an educated discussion about it. Because everything I say get's retranslated into "The bible is LAW"

Well what were the giant bones found in the ground then? lol

OKAY first off I want it to be clear. I'm going to put it in my opening too THIS IS NOT A TROLL THREAD. I'm reading a lot of replies that say this is just a troll thread, etc.. it's not. We did have this conversation. Also I changed the title so it's not as misleading. I'm legit serious this conversation really did happen. Like I said I mean no disrespect to people of various religions or beliefs and I don't want to start a huge debate. I've tried ignoring him and changing the subject. For example, when he was telling me all this about the Earth being 6,000 years old. I kept saying "my friend Kelly is really depressed I wonder what's wrong with her" on Skype he kept on bringing the topic back up over and over again. Sorry for the misleading title, I thought it was appropriate. I made a topic a long time ago, but it's probably gone by now, but this time my friend decided to preach to me again about the age of the Earth friend: "Can you believe some people think the Earth is billions of years old?" me: "well isn't it?" friend: "no it's 6,000 years old" me: "So dinosaurs lived 6,000 years ago?" friend: "No, around 5,000 years ago actually." me: "What? where does it say that?" friend: "The bible." me: "Well how does that prove anything?" friend: "The bible has all the proof you'll need. Science is wrong and it's funny because the bible has proved so many things about Science wrong" *he failed to mention anything* So at this point I wanted to get off the topic because, (no offense. everyone is entitled to their own beliefs,) it was getting really annoying. Then he goes friend: "How was the moon made?" me: "I think i remember in science during highschool it was a small planet that crashed into earth while it was still forming" friend: "that's stupid. God put it there." me: "Oh okay." friend: "and scientists think it's moving farther away from the Earth too? that's stupid" me: "Well the universe is still expanding" friend: "No it's not." So I keep trying to change the subject, but I didn't know how so then he asks me "Do you believe in God?" me: "I believe theres a higher power." friend: "So you believe there is God. Maybe you should study it then or look into it more." me: "Maybe. I just believe that it takes just as much faith to believe in the bible as it does to not believe in it." So... I don't know what to say lol. I feel like if I say anything he'll just get mad at me. During the Chinese Dynasty wasn't that around 5,000 years ago? If dinosaurs WERE alive wouldn't they have been writing about them? Doesn't it take millions of years for Fossil fuels to be created? I dunno.. Sorry for the rant. P.S. I'm not trying to bash anybodies beliefs. Sorry if this post offends you if it does, I really sincerely mean no offence to you in any way.