Wendell B: Guys, number 3 in line for Presidency is a young earth creationist.

Something grimly funny about how like 10 years ago, every harmless crank who believed in stuff like flat earth and fake moon landing would either be radicalized into antisemitism or gradually revealed it, but now all these people are open antisemites and they stumble into flat earth

round earther

Guys, number 3 in line for Presidency is a young earth creationist.

I'm not bothering to check but I'd bet we've had multiple presidents who were YEC's

Yeah, but nearly all would have predated TR

I feel pretty confident Dubya and Reagan had doubts about evolution and plate tectonics.

Dubya for sure, I always saw Reagan’s relationship with that element as way more cynically transactional

I am sitting here looking at a rock that is 3.5 billion years old. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_...

Morton Gneiss - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

And at least one Hollow Earther

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