• eightpix@lemmy.world
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    Heliocentric model.

    Cosmic distance and time. Light speed as a limit.

    The geological age of the Earth.

    Dinosaurs.

    Evolutionary theory.

    Continental drift.

    The periodic table of the elements.

    Quantum theory, including wave-particle duality.

    The Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

    Black holes.

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      It’s interesting, some theists would just say “that’s how God built the universe” and be satisfied with that.

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        The halfway sensible ones would. But the ones that thing religious texts are magic books would burn the former as heretics if they were allowed to do so.

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        Well sure. There are religious people who want to know how the world works. After all, if there is a creator/God then one of the ways that being communicated with us for certain is the universe we live in.

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          Never read the Quran, but had a coworker who claimed the quran explains a ton of science, including recent science. She also believed in creationism and therefore also thought evolution was bs, so I didn’t put much basis into her words.