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This is some of the goofiest shit I have ever heard. If these biblical Nephilim giants ever existed, and someone had evidence of that existence, what would be the motivation for hiding it?
Scientists do not avoid biblical references because of some vast conspiracy. They leave that stuff out because those stories do not agree with their findings and/or do not add any useful information.
A great many scientists are Christian, Jewish, or Muslim. If the Nephilim ever existed and evidence was found that proved it, scientists would not shut up about it. It would be impossible to keep it quiet.
Can you imagine the museum traffic if such evidence existed? People would travel from all over the world to see even a tiny fragment. No curator in his or her right mind would pass up that opportunity!
Their entire "live for today and do nothing for tomorrow" attitude in the conservative christian Right is based on the idea that none of this is permanent, that the bible is factual and literal, and that Jeebus is coming back aaaannny day now and he will make everything white I mean right.
No need to worry about the environment, economy or education system if nothing is real and everyone is going to be raptured to some magic place that lets you ... bask in God's glory? I have no idea what they actually think is going to happen in heaven, dead grandma is going to serve them cookies every day and they are going to be fine with it literally for INFINITY amount of time.
The entire narrative is so flimsy that it takes the concept of some huge conspiracy to keep it alive and remotely believable. This is the entire basis of the flat-earth movement as well.
Our species is lacking more than education and critical thought, we have large sections of the population lacking thought broadly, like no internal system of abstraction, language and comparison to find truth or objective reality. They just react to stimuli and go through life on auto-pilot and emotion. This is why these "movements" persist for hundreds or thousands of years despite all evidence to them being utter bullshit.