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People believe the young earth theory despite a preponderance of evidence supporting evolutionary theory.
Maybe it isn't so shocking to find that some are not informed about agricultural matters, even the most basic ones.
I knew a family who moved to a country location and they bought 3 goats along with some other farm animals for a little hobby farm. I was visiting one day and one of them commented that the goats had not become pregnant yet and they were kind of disappointed about that. Now I grew up in the suburbs and the only animals I had been exposed to were cats, dogs, and the small furry types. One of the family then commented that goats were females and should all get pregnant easily...
I informed them, as nicely as possible, that their goats would need a MALE goat if they wanted baby goats...
Wonder where they got the idea that female goats somehow could spontaneously become pregnant without the help of a male?
Yes. I'm surprised it's a thing. Maybe more people don't know what eggs are than I thought.
I've met maybe a dozen or so people in my life who thought eggs were dairy products since they were on nearby shelves in the supermarket too.
There is a big difference in misunderstanding the scope of the category "dairy" and thinking that eggs pop out of a cow's a$$.
I suspect most people that consider eggs to be dairy assume that chickens are raised on the same farms as milk cows or something. Or that 'dairy' is a category of food that requires refrigeration. Ignorant to be sure, but not stupid beyond comprehension.
Even children and the mentally disabled know that birds lay eggs.
Americans who believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows? Not remotely surprising.
Some will also argue with a stranger wearing the sports jersey of an opposing team, and many know FAR more about the Kardashians than they do our own history. I still don't quite grasp how they don't understand the difference between 'your' and 'you're', but hey, it's not important, the game is about to come on.
People believe the young earth theory despite a preponderance of evidence supporting evolutionary theory.
Maybe it isn't so shocking to find that some are not informed about agricultural matters, even the most basic ones.
I knew a family who moved to a country location and they bought 3 goats along with some other farm animals for a little hobby farm. I was visiting one day and one of them commented that the goats had not become pregnant yet and they were kind of disappointed about that. Now I grew up in the suburbs and the only animals I had been exposed to were cats, dogs, and the small furry types. One of the family then commented that goats were females and should all get pregnant easily...
I informed them, as nicely as possible, that their goats would need a MALE goat if they wanted baby goats...
Wonder where they got the idea that female goats somehow could spontaneously become pregnant without the help of a male?
My dear god.We need a massive meteor to strike this planet immediately.
Marie Joseph ... you reminded me of my friend who buys and sells a lot of horses. She and her husband went to look at a young horse in MD. The owner bragged and bragged about how nice the horse was, then 'confessed' because he wanted to be totally up front with them, that he'd had the horse for several years and he'd never bred any of his mares.
No surprised. Remember Jay Leno's Jaywalk series? Or Jessica Simpson thinking that Chicken of the Sea canned tuna was chicken?
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