• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I worked with a senior programmer who was a staunch Creationist - or as he always put it, “not an Evolutionist” - who seriously believed the world was created like 6000 years ago.

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      I know a guy with two PhD’s, who works in a genetics lab, and is entirely convinced that Neanderthals (and all other pre-homo sapien humanoids) are a hoax by evolutionists to lead true believers astray.

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          How is that possible??

          Massive doublethink? I haven’t talked with him much, and don’t want to contact specifically to ask, but the post just made me think back.

          And why would anyone do two phds? I thought that was just a hollywood trope.

          I’ve got the one, and I often wonder why the hell I ever did it.

          I do know 1 other person with a double PhD, but he figured “Nah, now that written half a dozen paper, I suddenlt realize economics sucks, I’m gonna do maths instead!” and got a 2nd degree in his late 50s. Personally, I would rather get keelhauled than go for another phd, but to each their own.