I didn’t realize this many people still believed the Earth is only a few thousand years old. These were the top comments in a TikTok video of a guy finding fish fossils.

[u/SosoMS]

https://i.redd.it/9idecbaeitj71.jpg

[u/SosoMS]

Literally half the comments too. I really hope the next generations breaks out of this nonsense.

Credit: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRrMLarn/

[u/MexicanResistance → u/SosoMS]

Unfortunately I doubt it, this generation had as much technology and access to information as possible, and while I’d say a good deal more people from this generation or educated on general topics, a lot of them still are influenced by their parents/who they grow up with and adopt these beliefs

[u/_Abiogenesis → u/SosoMS]

This genuinely gives me anxiety.
I would have loved in the age of information for everyone to be more educated. Unfortunately, reality has shown us that access to information itself is irrelevant in light of a shiny comforting confirmation biases. This is exactly why we need to trust specialist consensus more than charismatic underdogs who are cherry picking minority reports.
"Do your research" has become the rallying cry of those who do not understand confirmation bias. Sadly sometimes more harm is also done by fringe scientists advocating a controversy.
Humanity still has a long way to go.

[u/ImHalfCentaur1]

I like to hangout on r/DebateEvolution. Trust me, those kinda people are out there and just as dumb as you think they are.

[u/ZionPelican]

I follow an account called science_is_real and his comment section is always filled with that. He shuts them up lol

[u/matgo22]

ive found that tiktok comments are not the best place to go if you want to maintain whatever hope you had left for future generations

[u/Oculi_Glauci]

“Forty percent of U.S. adults ascribe to a strictly creationist view of human origins, believing that God created them in their present form within roughly the past 10,000 years”

So many. There are so many.

[u/TOoN_YT]

Isn’t carbon itself evidence itself that earth is millions of years old. I forget the source, but I swear I read something about that.

[u/moralmeemo]

I wish some people realized that you can follow a religion and still accept science as fact. :/

[u/readyjack]

Commenting “There is 0 evidence…”

On a video that shows evidence?

[u/CannaGuy85]

Millions 🤣🤣🤣

Try billions

[u/Mr-pizzapls]

Oh god the fundamentalists found TikTok

[u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO]

This is why I stay away from that place. Their ignorance is mind numbing. They need to go back to school

[u/SosoMS → u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO]

I just wanted to see some guy dig up fossils :(

[u/Impossible_Sign_2633]

insert obligatory Futurama "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" meme Seriously though I'm finishing up my geology degree and the very first thing you learn in geology 101 is that the oldest minerals on Earth date to 4.567 billion years old. I'm so, so sad that these people are spreading such horrible misinformation.

[u/ThatWhichVerbs]

When you consider that Ken Ham's 'Creation Museum' generates a profit while science museums typically need tax revenue to stay open, it's not surprising.

[u/mikuhero]

i saw this exact video. i was arguing for hours in the comments, lol

[u/SosoMS → u/mikuhero]

Doing the lords work. Lol

[u/unholymanserpent]

So many idiots in this world...

[u/Yee_merm]

What a bunch of dumbasses

[u/sleepingwiththefishs]

That 6k figure was calculated by an Irish bishop who added up all the generations in the Bible… solid source.

[u/Rash_Raccoon]

A wise man once said "Humans are evolving, just backwards"

[u/b1itzar]

holy shit that app is a disease

[u/yzbk]

Americans stay losing

[u/nowthenight]

What the fuck

[u/Chamith_]

I guess the real reason for this ' there is zero evidence ' type mind is social media algorithms.

If you interest something (with some doubt ) eventually social media feed only with that material and Make a bubble. you think, yah this is world and i was correct to believe these.

[u/AbsoluteSquidward]

My good friend stay away from tiktok to avoid this kind of stupidity.

[u/SirMarglar]

Drop some argon-argon isotope dating on they asses, yo.

[u/TerrorTheIndoraptor]

Some people are just hilariously stupid.

[u/editmark]

Wow... Just wow...

[u/Desideratta]

Before the internet, it was widely accepted that ignorance was due to lack of access to information. Now that we have access to tens of millions of pages, videos, helpful diagrams, and discussion groups where these answers can be found, I think it’s time to accept that lack of access to facts isn’t actually the problem.

[u/patrolgreen]

A girl in the states once told me with a straight face that the devil put all those fossils and dinosaur bones into the earth to trick humans, because that’s what the devil does best!

[u/Fajita9000]

TikTok is the worst community on the internet. People complain about Reddit and Twitter all the time, but they have nothing on the stupidity/toxicity of TikTok.

[u/MHSinging]

Modern day America has only been around for about 250 years, they're just not that developed yet unfortunately.

[u/KeybladeMasterAqua]

50% of Americans believe in young earth creationism. Think about that…..it’s a sorry state.

[u/TheEnabledDisabled]

This is what happens when the internet becomes the parent

[u/399men]

Those are probably really little kids tho

[u/Wyveros]

This is just sad to see

[u/The1hndl2rulethemall]

Well maybe if earth sciences were taught to kids like math chemistry and physics it wouldn’t be as big of an issue. Just a thought.