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[โ€“] eightpix@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

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

You should read the Quran. Or not.

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

What does the Quran say about black holes?

[โ€“] nyctre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month 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.