Posted on 03/26/2014 12:22:41 PM PDT by EveningStar
A new Facebook meme paints two leading Republicans as anti-science because of their alleged views of the age of the Earth.
The Facebook group Being Liberal posted a picture March 10, 2014, featuring side-by-side images of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., looking somewhat sheepish. Bolded text under the images describes the senators’ views on the age of the Earth and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
According to the meme, Rubio "believes Earth (is) 9,000 years old," and "humans hunted dinosaurs to extinction." Paul, the image proclaims, says the Earth is 10,000 years old and believes "God made dinosaurs disappear to make space for humans." The post received about 5,500 likes and was shared more than 4,000 times.
Upon seeing this, we couldn’t resist digging in and finding out just what these two senators believe about the age of the Earth and the demise of the dinosaurs.
(Excerpt) Read more at politifact.com ...
We live in a nation of mental boobs. So tired of this crap.
These leftists are OBSESSED with evolution. To me, 6,000 years of history is more than enough to deal with. What happened before that, I couldn’t care less.
Leaving aside the arguments for or against, their views of the earth’s age are not really material, unless the authors mean to fashion a message...which they apparently do.
I would ridicule these liberals for believing that we basically evolved from a pile of goo!
And Obama doesn’t regard Jesus as his personal Savior. </ ObamaTruthFile >
If some smart ass tries to corner you with a question like “what is the age of the earth” just say “I don’t know. I wasn’t there. Maybe you should ask my opponent”.
The way things are going I am beginning to not care about the future ;)
These rat bastards never shut their contaminated pie holes.
I understand the science, and the logic behind the science. But I still give the Bible greater credibility.
Any candidate with balls big enough to claim the same publicly, would be a plus in my book.
In the 2012 election cycle, Republicans were asked (at Democrat moderated debates) various questions about their Christian faith, evolution, etc.
Obama was not pressed to declare his own lack of belief in Jesus as the only way to Salvation. Yet the church going (and preaching) voters saw him as a Christian (because his campaign staff said he was). His site even claimed in the fight the smears section that he was a LIFE LONG Christian. Elsewhere he held himself at a higher moral position because he “came to Christ” on his own (without his parents’ influence) later in life as an adult (it was the former muslim Jeremiah Wright who “brought him there”).
Either religious questions are fair game for all candidates of they aren’t. Letting Democrats moderate GOP primaries is stupid.
I’m wondering if anyone here read the entire article.
Good to see the Dems haven’t abandoned their strategy of distracting you with shiny objects.
This has nothing to do with science or history, at its core. It has everything to do with the “personalized” “entity” science providing the basis for using ridicule as an attack mechanism. Both Alinsky tools/tactics.
Darwinism and “Science” are a mean to an end...yet the left loons will continue to stump in ethnically specific churches...won’t they.
Any presidential candidate spouting creationism will come off looking like a certified kook.
Amen. As previously mentioned, they weren’t there. Historical science ain’t observable and repeatable and therefore ain’t in the same category as operational science. Adam, for instance, being created fully grown, would have an appearance of age, just as the trees, etc., that were instantaneously created would have.
This then boils down to faith. Do we have faith that the science is true and the Bible is a lie, or do we have faith that the Bible is true and science (as evolutionists interpret it) is a lie? As for me and my house...
The Libs are pushing an artificial meme to continue the “war on science” talking point.
If a Republican candidate has a religious base, the push will be on to make him appear to be a “flat earther”.
Democrats are not held to this same standard. Let alone the talking points used by the Left are manufactured lies (lies by omission are lies as well).
as stated upstream, the *science* is arguable, so any pol willing to state their beliefs and stick to them gets a plus in their column from me...
and at this point, the pluses are so few, any are welcomed to motivate me to vote *for* a particular person...
According to Gallup, 46% of Americans believe in Creationism.
I think it’s time we quit worrying about what the liberal press tells us will make us look like kooks.
A good portion of the rest, will realize that it doesn’t matter for policy.
I’d rather look like a kook than a RINO.
According to Gallup, 46% of Americans believe in Creationism.
I think it’s time we quit worrying about what the liberal press tells us will make us look like kooks.
A good portion of the rest, will realize that it doesn’t matter for policy.
I’d rather look like a kook than a RINO.
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