True Story
Even as a ALL IN ELDER, UBER ELDER in fact, I had to battle this over and over to no avail.
I had a part and an elders wife made the comment about there being NO RAIN till the flood.
So after the meeting I told her nicely that that was very old thinking, and not accurate.
I showed her in Genesis where there were 3 rivers in Eden and asked her, so where does the water come from for rivers. She reluctantly kinda agreed. (I know she never changed her mind).
WORSE
A friend who at the time was a MS, and someone I thought was reasonably smart made the same comment to me.
When I told him, well we dont think that any more, and the 3 rivers thing, he seemed to not get it.
I asked him how do rivers form, where does the water come from, his answer floored me.
"The Ocean I guess"
OMG!!!! I wanted to just explode.
FYI - the WT has said for many decades that the mountains pre flood were much much smaller. They dont say that the flood covered Everest.
They say tons of silly bullshit - we don't need to embellish.