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1. They absolutly do not care about looking silly and thus will say thing similar to the analogies in the OP. A person educated in the subject matter sees it as total gibberish and a person without the knowledge or the audacity would not have said anything at all.
It's to do with fear and the worldview that they have built for themselves. Fundementalists tends to be people who have invested their all in the bible (or other holy text) and their religion. It is at the core of their being. If the bible is not the LITERAL world of god, then it opens up all sorts of painful and difficult questions. If it's not all true, maybe none of it is true? If none of it is true, what will happen to me when I die? What is the purpose of my existance? Those are questions they
already have answers to - they have the certain word of God to fall back upon.
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This reminds me of a conversation I had with a JW a while back, we were talking about the Kingdom and the claim of that cult that it would be on earth. The person I was discussing it with found it physically painful to discuss the matter, they actually started to shake - just from a discussion!
Further to this - we started looking at my bible and when they read elements of it aloud, what they read
wasn't on the page. I cannot remember the verse but they kept subbing in "earth" for "heaven". It was truely mindboggling stuff, they just struggled to see what was quite clearly on the page.
in your debates with Faith, you
think you are debating science, you are not - you are attacking her as a person at the most basic level, you don't mean to do that and that's not what you intend to do but that's the reality of dealing with fundementalists.They
are their belief in the most literally sense.