u/br0why

Edit: people have made me aware that "negacionist" is not a word. This is a mistranslation on my part. I mean creationists or just people who deny evolution

This is a genuine question and not meant to mock people. I often see online content about evolutionary history or paleontology flooded by angry and often bad faith comments denying evolution, and more often than not the people leaving these are americans, the majority of them citing religion but not always.

Is this related to the education system? Or just religious beliefs? I am aware ignorant people exist all over the world and religion is often why people deny evolution all over, not just americans, but i honestly never see that many people online doing this that aren't american.

If you have any idea why, please enlighten me. I want to clarify that I do believe in God, I'm not trying to attack anyones faith, but evolution is very much a proven fact, you can believe in both.

And again please keep this in good faith and don't attack people in the comments. I genuinely wonder why because this is related to my major in college and i try to debate and explain evidence to people to see if they are willing to learn, but that depends on the reasons too.

Edit: i won't be responding anymore since this thread has attracted a lot of people trying to debate things in bad faith instead of answering the question. If you do not believe in evolution i won't try to dissuade you here, i do recommend you search information outside of your comfort zone and understand it before you discard it. I also won't debate people trying to claim eugenics goes hand in hand with evolution, because it does not. It was used in a certain point in history to discriminate against people, but we are better as a scientific community now and hate will not be tolerated.

Please don't fight in the comments and don't call people idiots before you hear them out. The goal is to educate, not anger them so they stray further from science.

She isn't getting better and i doubt she will. We stopped talking so I don't even know how she is truly doing but we live together and i can tell she's not eating, not going to classes, smoking a shit ton of weed, lying to our parents...

I'm just exhausted. This is the last year they gave her to turn her life around before they force her to go back to my parents house and work. I know she won't work. I don't know what will happen next.

I miss having a sister. I miss the person she never became because she succumbed to her disorder and addictions. I'm just lost. I'm sorry for the depressing post, i have no one i feel like I can truly talk about this with.

My sister is finally taking her meds, being consistent with her psych appointments and her studies, even has recently started socializing again.

The thing is we are no longer on speaking terms since a while ago. We do live together so we talk about the apartment and the cats, but nothing more. All i know is what i noticed and what i heard from my mom or from our roommate.

She still smokes weed heavily, still has her moments where she flips out for no reason, is still struggling overall, but you can tell she's trying at least. And it hurts. It hurts she didn't start to try until i gave up on having a relationship with her, that she had to wait until i reached my absolute limit and had one of the most terrible (if not THE most terrible) emotional breakdown of my entire life. I know we sometimes have to reach rock bottom to start climbing up, but that was my rock bottom, not hers. She never cared about how i felt, she still doesn't and it's obvious on how she acts and talks to me/about me. I do believe losing my support affected her, since i'm the only person who has never left her alone when in need, but i just wish it didn't have to get to this point.

I wish her the best, i wish she keeps consistent and improving, but i don't think i can get over this. I don't know if she's doing it in hopes of repairing the relationship or just because she got tired of being miserable, but i hope is the latest. I hope she gets to a point where she is happy with her life and herself, just not with me in her life.