Well, my girlfriend lives in Arizona, so yes. (I live in Virginia. Yes, this makes things difficult.)
Last weekend, when I was visiting her, I saw the infamous creationist Grand Canyon book on her table. Opened it up to a random page, read a random paragraph, saw that it was lying about radioisotope dating, and put it back down again.
Last night we had a two hour long fight about religion. :-( I've been down all day, I'm babbling right now, and this is all OT, but... it is cathartic to write it. Hope no one else is bothered by this.
I struggle to understand her. In everything else she's logical and intelligent. She even seems to understand some science. It's just in this area she has these gigantic mental blocks because her entire life she's been told if she doesn't believe in a certain set of things she will suffer eternal torment. So to get eternal life she convinces herself that scientists are all wrong.
'Oh, geologists all just change their minds to fit the times. [A friend of hers] was a geology major in college and she said that everyone just changed their minds suddenly and whatever had been evidence against plate tectonics became evidence for plate tectonics.'
I try and explain underseafloor spreading and the reversals of the magnetic field, or the way that plate tectonics actually works (she claimed that 'evolutionists think that the sea level rose above Mt. Everest' one time...) and I just don't seem to make any headway. Frustrating.
I love her, but right now... just depressed about the whole thing.
Chris
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