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[โ€“] eightpix@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] GBU_28@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

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.

[โ€“] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[โ€“] TwinTusks@bitforged.space 1 points 4 months ago

Thats me over 15 years ago. Now I'm staunch atheist.

[โ€“] StaySquared@lemmy.world -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You should read the Quran. Or not.

[โ€“] Zeratul@lemmus.org 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What does the Quran say about black holes?

[โ€“] nyctre@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

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.