Gotta rant...

[Comatose Sphagetti]

Found a beautiful flint projectile point yesterday. My reference books tell me it's +/- 9,000 years old.
So I excitedly post it on FB. My cousin comes back and says it is no more than 6,000 years old (because Jesus).
I once gave a talk on flint points to boy scouts, holding up a 10,000 year old point for show. The parents in the back room objected to my interpretation of the age (because Jesus).
I'm tired of this shit! I wanna tell them all to fuck off! They're wrong! But telling them they're wrong would brand ME as a heretic!
What to do?

[HAB911]

1. I'm sorry, you can't fix stupid

I have tried and given up

[dalton99a]

2. 38% of U.S. adults believe God created humans within the last 10,000 years

http://www.gallup.com/poll/210956/belief-creationist-view-humans-new-low.aspx

They're so fucked up it's not worth arguing with them

[sunonmars]

3. No point in arguing with loons, NONE. No amount of challenging will change their mind

They are just fucked up brainwashed bible thumpers that would not know a reasoned argument if God himself came down on a golden chariot and told them they were all stupid dumb muppets themselves.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

4. Just say, What the great majority of scientists say is...

Tell them the scientifically determined age.

Then say, But hey, if you don't like things like like air flight, antibiotics, and smartphones you can reject science and go ahead and make up any number you like for how old you think this thing is.

[gratuitous]

5. Or go reductio ad absurdum on them

"Six thousand years old? Don't be ridiculous! God created everything a week ago last Tuesday. All of your memories and artifacts and everything else was created that same day, and there is no way you can prove me wrong, because the answer to everything is 'God did it'."

[onethatcares]

6. do not leave out

that the 6000 years is the fastest piece of evolution ever.

[nini]

7. "I wanna tell them all to fuck off"

Go ahead..if they disrespect you enough to say that to you on your FB wall.. call them out. Of course you don't have to actually say 'fuck off' but you can counter their lack of respect and stupidity.

I stopped keeping the peace with all of them some time ago.

[Comatose Sphagetti]

8. And therein lies my dilemma...

I live in the sticks in deepest, darkest red, evangelical Christian rural Indiana. I love to hike the surrounding farms looking for evidence of prehistoric man. If I tell people, politely, to fuck off, I will be a social pariah and lose access to properties. Not to mention sideways glances and forced smiles from almost all friends and family.
Yeah, I could be "brave" and defend my position, but that would lead to marginalization and social suicide.

[nini]

9. On Facebook - put those types on restricted so they don't see your stuff

OR create a list of people that won't react that way to your posts like that and only post to them.

Other than that - I'm not sure what to say. You live it - not me. Do what you have to in your situation.

[Different Drummer]

10. I wish I could advise you, but...

stupidity in large numbers is a very powerful thing.

[Blue_true]

11. Ignore them. I make a point of not questioning a person's religion. nt

[NotASurfer]

12. Sigh

Did we eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge for naught?