#the creationist

[taxidriverrr]

So, I've had an idea bouncing around in my head called The Creationist. It's a game I've been thinking about since around 2018 with original variation called Night Terrors. I never had the resources or the time/motivation to even work on it though, but now that I am a fully grown man, I can finally start working on this sick new idea I have!

I mean just look at that concept art!! There's so much of it and I have been working on some ideas with my boyfriends on how the story would go, game mechanics, and other such things related to that.

But for now, the main plot of the game is that you are dead (and no that's surprisingly not a spoiler), but you are trying to bring yourself to life once more, even though you are told outright that this is it and there's nothing you can do, surely there's some kind of hope yeah?

Well, you might just wanna find out. I'm not sure how long this will take since it's my first real project like this that I'm taking seriously and actually considering, but I do want to make this, and I want people to know about it.

So for now, enjoy the art. There's more than this to come afterwards :)

[headspace-hotel]

I wonder if in China they're reading news articles about the Creation Museum and regarding Americans with a mix of pity and incredulity

[captainjonnitkessler]

We really, really need to kill the idea that something being a religious belief puts it on a special untouchable level that nobody is allowed to disrespect or think is dumb. A religious belief isn’t any more special than any other belief or opinion, and it should absolutely be held to the same standards and critical thinking as anything else.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Unfriendly Reminder that the Sixth Mass Extinction - the one Humans Have Caused - is most similar to the End-Permian extinction in terms of causes and effects. That extinction killed 90%, possibly more, of life on earth. The main difference between the sixth and the end-Permian? The sixth is going faster. Faster usually means life has less time to adapt. We are careening towards the largest mass extinction this planet has ever seen.

[alienturnipp]

[Image ID: A greyscale digital painting of Drojan with a sorrowful expression in a prayer pose against a vivid red background. He wears a cloak while a shiny golden halo floats above his head. Drojan clutches yellow narcissus flowers between his hands. /.End ID]

Not afraid of the dark

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Commission for my beloved Nar of their DA OC! Drojan is a former apprentice of a Magister, who has to navigate going back to his normal life and rediscovering his kindness after his master was assassinated by a Crow.

Update: Now with ID by @/louminescence!

[vickysaurus]

Happy New Year!

Let's imagine it was the Earth itself that was going into its 2024th year. That is to say, we're compressing the entire history of the Earth into just the past 2023 years. What events would have happened when?

Well, not too much is certain about the first couple decades after our planet formed, until around 50 CE when we were hit by another proto-planet, Theia, and the debris formed the Moon. After a couple years of the planet cooling down again, the oceans formed out of boiling rain. The timing of the origin of life is very uncertain, but there are chemical signs it may very well have happened as early as the second century. Around 200 CE, the gas giants did a big funky orbit-swapping dance, and in the process inflicted the Late Heavy Bombardment on the rest of the solar system, meaning the Earth was suffering a ton of meteorite strikes for the entire third century.

The first indisputable evidence of life is from around 330, and the first stromatolites appear around 470. Those are basically the first fossils, stones created by layer upon layer of oxygen-producing cyanobacteria living and dying on top of one another. But even with oxygen producers evolving, it would take many centuries before oxygen became a major part of the atmosphere: not until the Great Oxygenation Event, which happened during the ninth and tenth centuries. That's also about the time the first complex, eukaryotic cells evolved through a symbiosis between an anaerobic archaean and an oxygen-breathing bacterium. The bacterium became more and more focused on just the oxygen-breathing task inside the larger cell, until its descendants were mitochondria, which as you all know are the powerhouse of the cell. The next seven centuries passed by with only slow, gradual changes, and life continuing to be unicellular and difficult to find in the fossil record.

(1735's Snowball Earth, by me)

From 1704 to 1730, the entire planet froze over. After merely two years of thaw, it happened again, this time lasting from 1732 to 1742. But these snowball Earth episodes set the stage for the evolution of animals that began right after. Across the mid-18th century, the bizarre Ediacaran biota, with its strange symmetries, fronds, and fractal-like pattern filled the oceans. In the early 1780s they went extinct, possibly due to a temporary drop in oxygen-levels, only to be replaced by a great variety of quite different creatures in the Cambrian Explosion.

(Class of 1799, by me)

Starting in 1784 and running for a few decades, the Cambrian period saw the origin of most of the modern animal phyla, reaching its most famous form in the Burgess Shale fauna of 1799. During this time, most animals still lived on the sea floor, either attached or crawling, with relatively few actually swimming creatures. Plants started tentatively moving onto land around 1817, and in 1825, the rising of the great Appalachian mountains caused a severe drop in global CO2 and thus temperatures, leading to the Late Ordovician mass extinction.

(Horseshoe crabs and sea scorpions on a beach in 1834, by me)

Bony fish first showed up during the 1830s, and around the same time plants were getting serious about inhabiting the land, evolving roots and vascular tissues so they could properly grow there. Millipedes and the ancestors of spiders were the first animals to follow them onto land. Our own fishy ancestors did not take their first step until 1857, by which point the arthropods were well established there and the plants had figured out how to become trees. The Late Devonian extinction, partially caused by the evolution of said trees and partially by the south pole freezing, played out in two pulses over the late 1850s and early 1860s.

(Swamp prominently featuring Meganeura and Mazothairos in 1889, by me)

Arthropods and vertebrates continued to gain adaptations to life on land. The insects became the first creatures ever to fly in 1878, and the high-oxygen atmosphere of the time would be especially good to them. Around 1884, a group of vertebrates called the amniotes, after the membrane that kept water inside their eggs so they could lay them on land without them drying out, split into two groups: the reptiles and the synapsids (which we mammals descend from). The next few decades would see the synapsids in particular being extremely successful as the supercontinent Pangaea formed. Until 1912, when a massive episode of volcanism caused the worst mass extinction of all time, the Great Dying, scouring the Earth of a huge portion of its life.

(A 1930 scene featuring the three branches of archosaur: dinosaur, pterosaur, and pseudosuchian, by me)

The 1910s were a period of slow recovery during which strange new forms of animal evolved. Many different, unrelated reptiles, such as the ichtyosaurs and plesiosaurs, went to sea, where they would continue to provide some of the most impressive creatures for most of the 20th century. On land, the dinosaurs first appeared in 1920, though for the next decade or so they'd live in the shadow of their pseudosuchian (crocodile-line) cousins. In 1934, Pangaea began to break up, resulting in another terrible pulse of volcanism that caused a lot of extinctions and left particularly the feathered and furry survivors with a lot of empty niches to fill, allowing the dinosaurs and mammals to diversify greatly. The last common ancestor of all modern mammals lived in the early 1940s, and by 1957 the dinosaurs had figured out flight, with Archaeopteryx usually being considered the first bird. Other dinosaurs took on an incredible variety of sizes, shapes, and forms. Some of the most famous ones include Dilophosaurus (1942), Diplodocus and Stegosaurus (1955), Iguanodon (1969), Velociraptor (1991), and Tyrannosaurus rex (1994).

(A tropical lakeside in the year 2000, by me)

In 1995, the world was struck by a meteorite, wiping out many groups, including the marine reptiles, pterosaurs, and ammonites. The surviving mammals and dinosaurs went on to diversify across the next couple of years and had formed thriving new ecosystems in the tropical world of the turn of the millennium. The first known bat lived in 2001, and the whales returned to the oceans next year. Around 2009, the world's climates turned colder and dryer. Antarctica froze over and grasslands spread widely. Our last common ancestor with the chimpanzees and bonobos lived in 2021, and by new year 2023, our ancestors were getting brainier and more proficient with tools. That's also when the north pole froze and the Quaternary ice age cycle began. The first known members of Homo sapiens lived on 10 November 2023. The latest ice age started on 14 December, and ended at 2 AM on 30 December. The great pyramid of Giza was built at 6 AM on 31 December and On The Origin Of Species was published at 23:22 PM.

[akirakirxaa]

Auraugust Day 25: Myth

𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑒𝑚 𝐼 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝐼𝑡 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑

[artist-issues]

Thoughts on evolution theory? (I don't know the name rlly but yk, the one that proposes we come from monkeys and stuff)

It's just a theory. One that doesn't provide answers for any of the worldview questions we, as humans, need answered in order to life consistently.

The questions are:

Where did we come from?

Where is this all going?

Why do we have a sense of right and wrong?

Its also got nothing on "beauty." It's just a theory. So it can't answer any questions, really.

We didn't evolve from monkeys. Or anything. We were created by God, in His image.

[roxannepolice]

Just one of those things I just need to yell out so my executive functions work but make a separate post because I'm already getting blocked for my hot takes...

Are Doctor and Master trying to change each other? Oh, lately it's been framed as this, sure, but are they really? Or are they just trying to convince each other that when you get right down to the bottom of it, what the other wants is the same that they want, the other just hasn't realised this yet, but surely with a mind like that they'll arrive at it eventually, because it's the only rational conclusion?

[sparvverius]

there is so much going on here

[zooophagous]

One time when I was still in Christian school and didn't know I was asexual I asked an instructor what if someone doesn't commit the sin of lust because they just aren't into it and she insisted that saying you don't feel sexual attraction is committing the sin of pride because you're saying you're above others by being immune to a sin they suffer from.

Well Mrs. Gade sorry but I guess I'm just better than you 💅

[boygirlctommy]

hate having a genuine interest in christianity bcus there is No One in my life i can discuss it with. i sound too atheist to talk w religious people and too religious for the athiests lol

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Owen Jones is as much an evolution-denier and creationist as Ken Ham.

Sex-based differences in toy selection are demonstrable in other primates, who don't have a plausible mechanism for social constructivism.

So, for feminist Blank Slateism to say that we alone are immune to the same forces as our ape relatives is overtly a denial of evolution, or at minimum to suggest that these sex-based differences mysteriously disappeared in our evolutionary line alone for no apparent reason, but then re-emerged, identically, as social constructions.

That's creationism.

Thinking English majors who don't understand anything about biology could explain human nature and behavior better than actual scientists is one of the most braindead notions of the last couple of decades.

People who subscribe to "the patriarchy" to explain differences between male and female, woman and man, are evolution-denying creationist cranks and should be treated with the same scorn and derision as people who believe in Noah's magic zoo boat.

[captainjonnitkessler]

“You know you’re just a reddit atheist, right?” Not only am I fine with that, but given that the Supreme Court just functionally declared it legal for religious people to discriminate based on their “sincerely held beliefs”, I’m actually going to get meaner <3

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

just realized in a bit of hilarious irony the young earth creationist’s who claim humans and dinosaurs lived alongside each other are technically correct😭

see this is where I have fun with creationists because, if you're careful, you can string them along a whole conversation by talking about birds and saying dinosaurs, and it takes FOREVER for them to realize what's happening and get mad

[alienturnipp]

"My experience with magisters who needed to be killed had led me to believe their apprentices weren’t the altruistic sort either. But you’re telling me… you were an overused, underpaid resident healer without actual political leverage? Did I get that right?"

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Birthday gift for my friend Nar of Drojan (their DA OC) <3 With dialogues taken from our fic lysm <3