Posted on 10/08/2012 4:44:56 PM PDT by markomalley
Evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are major underpinnings of mainstream science. And Georgia Republican Rep. Paul Broun, a physician who sits on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, says they are “lies straight from the pit of hell.”
Broun, who is unopposed for reelection in November, made the comments in a videotaped Sept. 27 speech at a sportsman's banquet at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Ga., according to the Associated Press.
Here are his remarks:
“God’s word is true. I’ve come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. It’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior. There’s a lot of scientific data that I found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I believe that the Earth is about 9,000 years old. I believe that it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says. And what I’ve come to learn is that it’s the manufacturer’s handbook, is what I call it. It teaches us how to run our lives individually. How to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all our public policy and everything in society. And that’s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that.”
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Marky-Mark.....if you buy this happy horsesh*t, then you’re an even bigger IMBECILE than I’ve always thought you were.
I agree with you that it is hard to imagine certain structures just appearing on the scene suddenly by slow accumulations of genetic traits. I saw a program once about the Pterosaurs and how they had radically different forms than anything before and these structures were crucial for flight. In fact it seemed to the scientists studying it that if any one of these were missing it could not have flown. What would the transitional forms that could not fly do with a 10 ft. long finger. That’s what formed the wing. I don’t agree though that all mutations are harmful though. Some, like a different pigment that helps an animal blend in better and avoid predators would be helpful.
I guess that would a depend on who you would consider a scientist.
Apparently, according to the good congressman, there is no evidence that the earth is any older than 9000 years old. You seem to be 4.891 billion years off.
Make that 4.291 billion years off.
No wonder you dropped out of high school.
CIA my arse.
Book written by a cartoon tiger.
Believing that the earth is only 9000 years old might.
Moron
Or as my man Bugs Bunny would say...
“What a maroon...what an imBESSile..
All life begins with some random combination of genes.
From "Darwin's Ghost" by Steve Jones, we have ... "About a thousand genes are shared by every organism, however simple or complicated. Although their common ancestor must have lived more than a billion years ago, their shared structure can still be glimpsed. It shows how the grand plan of life has been modified through the course of evolution." ... Pg 284.
And again, from Jones ... "One set of genes is found everywhere. It translates the information coded in the DNA and allows it to make proteins. The job is so essential that such structures changed little over millions of years." Pg 285.
Happy reading.
information doesn’t organize and create itself. life is an effect, not a cause. there are no self-creating effects. it also goes against all of our obeservable scientific methods as we’d never be able to rely on something spontaneously reorganizing into something else. further the concept of non-living to living has never been recreated, much less observed in nature.
i mean if you only bank on what you can observe through the senses, then you can’t make any 100% fact statements on anything you haven’t witnessed yourself, you still have to take it on faith that another witness saw it, or the tape recording the event isn’t fake, or word of mouth passed down by one or more people, you have to have faith and believe they are reliable sources.
as science continually makes 180 degree course corrections on many things all the time, science’s answers are only as good as fallible man and what he knows, at any given time. do you realize the latest findings throw the whole notion of a nuclear sun out the window, yet the sun is nuclear was science gospel for how long?
yeah i think i will put my faith in a book that has yet to be proven incorrect historically by anyone. archaelology and non-biblical historicalsources have only confirmed the accounts they’ve tried to point to and say the bible is wrong.
and that supports evolution? or that the mind of man is a God-given gift whether acknowledged or not.
Well, the Gaia satellite launching next year will be able to measure the distance to stars by parallax (no use of red shift, etc.) to the galactic center, about 30,000 light years, which, in a rational world, would put the last stake in the decomposing carcass of 6,000-9,000 year old Young Earth Creationism.
This not being a rational world, I expect the idiots of Answers in Genesis and their ilk to do elaborate hand-stands involving the speed of light changing rapidly in the last 6,000 years, the principles of triginometry being wrong, etc. Should be amusing to watch.
it would be a waste of time to discuss this with you, it’s very clear from your post. all you seem to do is insult people who don’t believe what you do. you can go back to DU with your fellow insulters, anytime.
paint mixes ~ and does so in ways we cannot yet understand. Take that issue up with God ~ possibly He’ll create you a different universe someday where paint does not mix.
Not even that will keep young earth creationists from reveling in their ignorance.
Wow! What anger! I pity your asinine ignorance!
The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit. If you need more of an explanation then talk to a minister, priest, or rabbi.
Things self-organize in nature all the time, without humans or some deity having to do it.
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