How Evangelical-Fundamentalist Christian "thinkers" pervert the minds of "believers" with their un-scientific myths and idiotic fantasies.
This is why you just have to love
so much of what passes for right-wing thinking
in 2013. Call it the Fred Flintstone Effect. Yesterday, Ken Ham,
President of “Answers in Genesis,” a staunchly conservative Christian
group, released a brief radio spot claiming that dinosaurs are being
used to “indoctrinate children.”
As Mr. Ham sees it, this is part of a plan hatched by paleontologists
to trick innocent youth into believing the theory of evolution.
Well, you may be able to fool some people all of the time, and
other people some of the time; but you can’t fool Ken Ham. God, Ham
insists, created all living creatures on the same day, “about 6,000
years ago.”
Fortunately, when it comes to all of America’s impressionable
children, Ham is not alone in his position. Accelerated Christian
Education (ACE) is also on the job. Until recently, in one of their
most popular biology texts they noted:
“Are dinosaurs alive today? Scientists are becoming more
convinced of their existence. Have you heard of the ‘Loch Ness Monster’
in Scotland? ‘Nessie’ for short has been recorded on sonar from a small
submarine, described by eyewitnesses, and photographed by others. Nessie
appears to be a plesiosaur.”
See how simple science is kids! If Nessie is real—and dinosaurs
aren’t extinct—then, evolution is a myth. God, it all makes such
perfect, right-wing sense.
You might have thought right-wing thinkers would have been sad when
ACE decided not long ago to drop this passage—but Mark Looy, chief
communications officer for “Answers in Genesis,” actually
agreed with the publisher’s decision.
“There are just so many of these legends, like the dragon
mentioned in Beowulf, the numerous accounts of St. George and the
dragon, and so on, that they can’t be dismissed,” Looy told reporters
for the Christian Post.
“However, because the Loch Ness monster is a questionable example to
use, and also because the claim has become such a distraction, we agree
that it is wise to delete Nessie’s reference from a textbook that lists
possible living monsters.”
(We are thinking here: maybe they should insert Sasquatch instead.)
In any case, Ham’s theory eliminates many perplexing questions in
science—and even history—all in one Book of Genesis swoop.
What happened to Neanderthals in Europe, for example, 40,000 years ago? Scientists have struggled to explain their extinction. Now we know.
Nothing happened. They weren’t even there. The fossil record is all
screwed up. Neanderthals were stomped on by dinosaurs sometime in the
last 6,000 years.
Kind of like
Jurassic Park—only worse.
Suddenly, the past becomes clear. How did humankind
first reach the Americas 25,000
years ago? Science is wrong again. Okay, maybe the first inhabitants of
the New World did cross a land bridge over the Bering Strait—but no ice
age 25,000 years ago was involved. Man did not yet exist. Mastodons did
not yet exist. Sabertooth Tigers did not yet exist. All would be
created 19,000 years later and all would hitch a ride on Noah’s Ark.
Without a doubt, hunting must have been good 6,000 years ago.
Spear-chucking folk would head out of their caves to bring back the
bacon, so to speak. Hmm, what do we feel like eating tonight, buffalo
steaks or barbequed Brontosaurus ribs?
Now we know that even the Weather Channel is in on the plot to trick the kids. You want proof? Like scientific proof?
How about this headline from their website today: “Climate Changing
at Fastest Pace Since the Age of the Dinosaurs.” According to a report
by
two Stanford climatologists the planet is warming at a faster pace than at any time since the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago:
“Over the next century, the pace of climate change is
expected to continue to pick up speed, the report warns, which could
lead to a rise in average annual temperatures of 5 to 6 Celsius degrees
(about 9 to 11 Fahrenheit degrees) by 2100.”
You can click on a link and see pictures of retreating glaciers round
the world. But this is just more scientific propaganda, like when the
story mentions plants adapting at the end of the last Ice Age, 20,000
years ago.
This climate change crap is just some left-wing scheme to put the Big
Oil companies out of business, and by the way, remember that all that
oil was created in just the last 6,000 years, after God in His infinite
wisdom decided to create plants.
SOURCE:
John Viall at AddictingInfo