It's sad that people find it hard to believe that there could be a god. When you look into carbon dating and evolution you can find so many flaws. Carbon dating is based on so many assumptions it's laughable but everyone has been brain washed from nursery onwards. Thanks to social media like YouTube the real truth is out there. You no longer have to be a sheep. You can research yourself and think for yourself.

The thing you're missing here is that I, an atheist, do not claim carbon dating and evolution aren't flawed. The difference is I don't expect to know all the answers. Why should we? That's a totally insane expectation in my mind. The universe is so impossibly vast and we are such a small part of it that while our pursuit for ultimate truth/knowledge/answers brings fascinating new developments, the pursuit itself is ultimately futile I believe. Our sun will burn out and the earth will cease to exist before we ever know everything there is to know about life. Human science does its best but acknowledges its limitations.

Whereas religion claims to know the answers. Just my opinion, but that's the biggest flaw in religion for me.

I've done plenty of research. I've read the Bible. It's written by humans who wanted to put a framework around their lives. Thousands of years ago. You're welcome to believe what you want to but you're not convincing me unfortunately if that was your hope.

One thing you're right about: I'm brainwashed. So are you. Life = brainwashing. We choose to believe what makes most sense to us based on the data we're exposed to/the data we go out and find. The fact that your brain was washed with a different flavour of soap to mine is kinda what makes life so interesting.