This just astounds me. It really does. One of the people in the running to be vice president of the United States of America believes that the earth is only 6,000 years old and dinosaurs and man co-existed. I’m sorry, but this is the person who is only “one 70 year old man’s heartbeat” from getting her hands on the nuclear codes and the reigns of the worlds most important, and already faltering, economy. I can’t quite put into words how scary this is.
Thankfully this is being covered by some prominent news outlets like the Huffington Post, but really this needs to get out into the mainstream media. People need to know. Unfortunately, this won’t happen because of the fear within the mainstream media outlets of alienating some viewers. In the words of Matt Damon (yes, that Matt Damon):
“Do the actuary tables and there’s a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn’t survive his first term and it’ll be President Palin… It’s like a really bad Disney movie. The hockey mom, you know, ‘oh, I’m just a hockey mom’… and she’s facing down President Putin… It’s totally absurd… it’s a really terrifying possibility… I need to know if she really think that dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. I want to know that, I really do. Because she’s gonna have the nuclear codes.” From HP. Video here.
The source of this story is a teacher who spoke to Palin just after she was elected Mayor of Wasilla in 1998. The really worrying part of the discussion Palin had with Philip Munger, the teacher in question, was this:
“…she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks…”
This was in response to Munger pushing her in the clear empirical evidence available, specifically prehistoric fossils and tracks that can be dated back far further than 6,000 years.
The question we need to ask is this. Is Palin dellusional, an idiot or both? And that really shouldn’t be a question you’re asking about anyone in politics, let alone someone vying for one of the most powerful positions in the world.
She delusional and an idiot! When she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska she cut funding for the Plan B “morning after pill” to rape victims.
That’s crazy stuff. It doesn’t matter who is out there to elect, they always seem to pounder to the God folk. I never really liked Obama to begin with (came off way to manufactured), but than his priest of 20 years starting talking and wow, he was pretty screwed up.
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To the atheist, I’m sorry about the “christians” you’ve met. They are so stupid the demand that the bible is all fact and that you are supposed to let people hurt your children. They all ignore most of it, its funny.
If you read the works of paul you come to the conclusion
that he didn’t believe a lot of the old testement.
Contact me at [email protected] if only to make fun of me. I’m a christian and a fan of dare I say rock music.
My favorite album is sung by one of those “those people”.
Paul wasn’t mad about the people at his church getting drunk he just wanted them to eat first. Sinners don’t all go to hell, thats what the whole Jesuse thing was for.
Read 1Timothy 1:4 then Gen5:1, its funny, all the christian
does is hold onto bullshit even Paul told his son not to pay any attention to.
I personally believe in a young earth and I also believe in Jesus Christ. Evolution is a theory based on lies and imagination. It can’t be proven by the definition of science, which is based on observation. Actually there is more proof of a young earth, less than 10,000 years) than evolution could ever manufacture. The Bible is backed up by science and science has never found anything to disprove the Bible. A young earth was taught all through history until about 140 years ago mad athiests started attempting to get rid of God and they came up with this idea that the earth is millions of years old. One after another slowly followed suit with outlandish theories to which they had absolutely no proof and even today there is no proof for evolutions. I pray for your eyes to be opened, and I pray for your well being. Love to all.
PS Any questions email me at [email protected] and I’d love to give you information to back these statements up.
Where is your history to back up the bible? It was a book someone found and everyone believed it and everyone begun to follow suit just like you said about evolution. There is so much proof for evolution. You need to get an education and learn about what you are fighting against before you start fighting and stop being so arrogant.
I understand that the idea of the Lord on a dinosaur is supposed to render the idea of dinosaurs and man ridiculous but:
He rode into Jerusalem on a donkey; the only animal He is recorded as riding. The fact that He did not ride a dolphin, an elephant or a dinosaur does not prove that they did not exist at that time, does it?
There is a reason that dinosaurs; reptilian, large, enormous, dangerous creatures are extremely similar to creatures which were decribed as real by virtually every ancient culture; dragons–which were; reptilian, large, dangerous et…
Tracking the Ancient Griffin, Modern Monsters and the “Extinct†Pterosaur Through Art, History and Science
http://en.calameo.com/read/00005951030da4dc833f4
take care