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I’m curious if anyone else is able to provide an example here. Personally, I grew up in an extremely right-wing, very isolated, very culty version of the southern baptist church. I was around young-earthers, anti-vaxxers, anti-evolution folks, dinosaur/man co-existence, believing black people are black because they’re cursed—all sorts of crazy whackadoodle shit. I never once met someone who didn’t believe in space. I think you’re right that this was a YouTube Fact™ that she picked up somewhere.
It's a thing, but even the creationists debunk it.
The summary is that, ancient people did conceive of the sky to be solid, but the Bible itself never says so in unequivocal language.
One could interpret the word used for "firmament" as being synonymous with the atmosphere and interstellar space and the texts still make sense.
https://creation.com/is-the-raqiya-firmament-a-solid-dome
The understanding of the world also changed during the immense time of writing
Yeah, I came from the same background. Dinosaurs bones are a test put there by the devil to make believers doubt the young earth shit, the asteroid belt was originally the planet that Lucifer dwelt on, and God destroyed it when he cast him out, and that's why it's there, all kinds of shit. Never had someone tell me space wasn't real, though. I'm sure a lot of them had a geocentric model stuck in their brains, or maybe didn't believe in existence outside of the solar system, but the shepherds needed the star to guide them to Bethlehem, so they at least believed in space.