Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

Archae

(46,798 posts) Thu Mar 20, 2014, 11:14 PM Mar 2014

We didn't create the "6,000 year old universe" saying.

But the creationists *STILL* use it.

'League Of The South' Leader: Promoting Evolution Is 'An Act Of Disloyalty To America'

By David March 20, 2014 3:30 pm - Comments

Michael Peroutka, a Maryland-based lawyer who was the Constitution Party's candidate for president in 2004, says that Americans cannot believe in evolution if they truly love their country.

In 2011 video uncovered by Right Wing Watch on Thursday, the co-founder of the Institute on the Constitution asserts that "evolutionary thinking is dangerous and anti-American."

"American political philosophy is based on the belief that the world was created by God in six days, and that this creation event occurred about 6,000 years ago," he explains, adding that news reports describing the Earth as millions of years old were either ignorant or "anti-American."

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/03/league-south-leader-promoting-evolution

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We didn't create the "6,000 year old universe" saying. (Original Post) Archae Mar 2014 OP

It's too early to read this kind of BS TxDemChem Mar 2014 #1

Describing the earth as millions of years old is anti-American? LeftishBrit Mar 2014 #2

Well he is correct... Springslips Mar 2014 #3

Calling me out?!? The nerve! Orrex Mar 2014 #4

TxDemChem

(1,918 posts)

1. It's too early to read this kind of BS

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2014, 05:48 AM

Mar 2014

And the logical fallacy he uses is absurd. Non sequitur, I believe. Either way, he's an idiot.

LeftishBrit

(41,303 posts)

2. Describing the earth as millions of years old is anti-American?

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Sat Mar 22, 2014, 04:28 PM

Mar 2014

How??? I can understand people thinking it's wrong or wicked or blasphemous or godless; but what has it got to do with being pro-or anti-American? Do the Religious Right think that Adam and Eve were Americans, or what?

Springslips

(533 posts)

3. Well he is correct...

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Sat Mar 22, 2014, 05:40 PM

Mar 2014

In saying that reports saying the Earth is millions of year old is ignorant. It is just an irony that those reports are just a little less wrong than his belief.

Orrex

(64,101 posts)

4. Calling me out?!? The nerve!

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2014, 01:22 PM

Mar 2014

LOL. Okay, I cede the point.

I still maintain that the joke is overused, but I can hardly argue for its elimination when the Creationists still willingly make themselves the target of the joke.

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