• mineralfellow@lemmy.world
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      I was a YEC before going to university. I studied geology. After two years, I accepted that evolution happened. After four years, I was an atheist. I went on to get a doctorate, and I have published quite a few papers about rocks that are >2 billion years old.

      As a kid, there were literally 0 authority figures in my life that accepted that evolution happened. It was taken as a given that it was ridiculous. My biology teacher skipped the chapter on evolution, saying, “this is controversial.”

      Patience, love, and making critical information available gives kids like I was a chance.

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      Two islands, divide them by sex. If you don’t, they will eventually overpopulate and start colonizing places like they’ve been in the last 1000 years.

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        Too risky. What if u misgender one accidentially? Put each on a separate island. Or into a sealed barrel and just into the ocean.