Home/Beliefs & Values/Faith doubts/ThoughtI spent years staring at Trilobites and Tiktaalik while my mother’s voice recited Genesis in the back of my head like a skipping record.faith doubtsvalue contradictionsShare this thoughtCopy linkShare on XDownload imageDoes this resonate with you?Share Your OwnBrowse MoreOthers have felt this tooIt’s 32 years of biological development culminating in this: staring at a cast of *Tiktaalik roseae* on the laptop screen while the dishwasher hums its final cycle. …career path regretYou know sometimes you just wake up and you're staring at the ceiling and it's like two in the morning and you're thinking about trilobites, or maybe some hominid jawbone they dug up last year and… …faith doubtsi don't even know why I'm writing this down you know like it’s just something that's been… percolating for a while and it's getting kinda intense now it's like a constant low-level hum of cognitive… …faith doubtsBut then, you know, life happens, and you get older, and you stumble into things, like, oh, I don’t know, a scholarship to study evolutionary biology, and suddenly you’re in lectures, dimly lit… …faith doubtsRelated ThemesMoral gray areasOpinion hidingValue contradictions