An acquaintance recieved her masters in geology from a state university in deep Appalachia. (you've probably heard of their football team) All of the professors were YE creationists and rejected plate tectonics.

I don't know any details, because this was years ago and I didn't think to ask questions. So I don't know if these were personal beliefs that you wouldn't know about unless your deep in the dept. or if they were teaching this crap to students.

[–] CovertOperative@piefed.zip 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Plate tectonics was only accepted in the sixties (but I doubt your story was that long ago). I don't know what it is about geologists that makes them drop the ball so hard.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Relevant xkcd

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

They knew about continental drift before that. They just didn't know the mechanism.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, this was the mid-late 90s.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

That's about right though - Christianity is generally a couple of decades behind while making up excuses

(was raised in some silly churches)

[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

That both somehow doesn't surprise me and also, yiiikes