Read on Twitter
When I& #39;m with family, I often think about how I used to be a creationist. We were in deep (met Ken Ham personally, attended conferences, literally helped build the Creation Museum, it& #39;s a long story). But it wasn& #39;t science classes that brought me out of it. It was the humanities.
Specifically, two gen-ed liberal arts courses at my Christian college: History of Science and Intro to Biblical Interpretation.
In History of Science we learned explicitly about the historical origins of creationism as a movement (and my professor was also, coincidentally, a former colleague of Ken Ham and gave us an eye-opening look behind the curtain of Answers in Genesis org, another long story),
But it was Intro to Bible that really cracked open the door for me to rethink my world. My professor asked us, "Does the text mean one thing, or does it mean everything that it can mean?" Before I learned about science, I needed to learn new ways of reading.
That one class, that one question, expanded my horizons of thought so quickly and widely that I& #39;m still thinking about it. It& #39;s my Big Bang moment (an event which I used to believe was a fictionalized feature of a vast scientific conspiracy 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Expressionless face" aria-label="Emoji: Expressionless face">)
You could have thrown every scientific study and biological fact at me (and people did) and it wouldn& #39;t have made a dent. I was a good debater, and trained for those exact debates. Everything proceeded from the premise that the Bible is literally true, true in one specific way.
But once it became possible to read in multiple ways, once I saw the history of how the Bible was written and compiled and recompiled and reread and retranslated, everything I believed fell apart. And then I rebuilt from the ground up.
