Rand Paul Won’t Say How Old the Earth Is. (Whiny liberal hates Creationists)

True/Slant ^ | 6-28-2010 | Charles Johnson

[Christian_Capitalist]

Rand Paul Won’t Say How Old the Earth Is
Charles Johnson
The Lizard Annex 6-28-2010

From PageOneKentucky.com, here’s a video of GOP candidate Rand Paul addressing a convention of Christian homeschoolers, and dodging a question about the age of the Earth.

The questions asked by the homeschoolers in the video: 1) are you a Christian, 2) how old is the Earth, and 3) will you let the UN take our children. Yep, really. And these are the teachers asking these questions. They’re raising a generation of kids who are ignorant anti-science fanatics, afraid that the United Nations is going to come and kidnap them. Good grief.

Did he dodge the question because he’s a creationist and he knows that he shouldn’t reveal it for political reasons, or because he’s not a creationist and he knows he shouldn’t reveal it for political reasons? Either way, this is very sleazy behavior.

My opinion: I think he probably is a creationist, just like his father Ron Paul, because his world view matches the creationist world view in every respect.

[Christian_Capitalist]

They don't teach “atheistic” evolution in public schools either; they teach evolution.

Nope. References to a Creator are disallowed. That's Atheistic.

Catholics have no problem teaching evolution because, despite the protestations otherwise by fanatics on both sides, acceptance of the scientific theory of evolution is perfectly compatible with religious faith.

Roman Catholic theology is incorrect on this matter. Since it is clear from Scripture that Jesus of Nazareth was a Creationist, and we know that Jesus of Nazareth was 100% right in all ways, we can therefore deduce that those who believe in Jesus, must believe in His Creationism.

Now, there are probably a great many good Roman Catholics who haven't really thought it through from that angle, so their ignorance is forgivable; but in the case of other Roman Catholic evolutionists -- well, not all Roman Catholics are actually Christians, of course.

[starlifter]

ROFLMAO.

Here's what we know so far:

- Daddy issues

- Obsessed with breeding (hopefully with unrelated humans)

- couldn't hack college

- doing something in Alaska

- still living the dream of 1991 Oklahoma high school state champion in world history (for which, I might add, there is no reference at all on Bing for 1991 or for any other year)

- clinging desperately to SAT scores

- lecturing the anonymous masses on economics and theology.

Is this a great country or what!

[Christian_Capitalist]

Mark 10:4-6 -- And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

[allmendream]

Agnostic. At best/worst not mentioning God would be agnostic, not atheistic.

References to any supernatural causation is disallowed in science. Is science therefore, as an endeavor, atheistic?

Catholics are the #1 private school system in America. They teach evolution. It seems the Free Market is meeting the need for science based private education, entirely divorced from any government subsidy.

Not all creationists are actually Christians, of course. Many of them are Muslims.

[Grunthor]

Ok, I get your point but not even THAT said that the earth is “blankety-blank years old.”

[Grunthor]

“Not all creationists are actually Christians”

And not all Christians are young earth creationists.

[valkyry1]

This is true.

[Christian_Capitalist]

ROFLMAO. Here's what we know so far: - Daddy issues - Obsessed with breeding (hopefully with unrelated humans) - couldn't hack college - doing something in Alaska - still living the dream of 1991 Oklahoma high school state champion in world history (for which, I might add, there is no reference at all on Bing for 1991 or for any other year) - clinging desperately to SAT scores - lecturing the anonymous masses on economics and theology. Is this a great country or what!

It sure is. There's a lot of life you can live in this country, if you just go with the wind and do whatever the heck you like.

AFTER working as a Salmon and Crab Fisherman in Alaska, I then cut my hair and moved on to become a Stock Broker for Stratton Oakmont Investment Banking in Lake Success, New York. Didn't know at the time that they were basically a front operation for the Genovese and DelCavacante Crime Families, but that became apparent as I worked my way up in the firm. You can read a few dishonorable mentions in the Business Week 12/16/1996 Cover Article "The Mob on Wall Street", which came out a few months after I quit.

Then I lived in the Florida Keys for about five years in the early 2000s; that was quite a change from Alaska. Did accidentally drive my little black Eclipse into the Atlantic Ocean at about 100 miles an hour one day; that was fun, of sorts.

Now I'm on the wrong side of 35 and cruising towards 40, but my cute little 22-year-old wife doesn't mind a bit. Says I make her feel "like she's won the lottery, every day".

You know, now that you mention it, it is actually an awful lot of fun being me.

[Christian_Capitalist]

Agnostic. At best/worst not mentioning God would be agnostic, not atheistic.

No, the prohibition on mentioning God is what's atheistic.

[Christian_Capitalist]

Ok, I get your point but not even THAT said that the earth is “blankety-blank years old.” And not all Christians are young earth creationists.

Oh, well, yeah -- it doesn't. I didn't say that Christ's statement ruled out Old-Earth Creationism; I respect Old-Earth Creationists, I just don't agree with them.

But, no -- while Christ's statement establishes the presence of human beings "from the beginning of creation", it does not put any absolute number on just how long a timespan we're talking about there. Point granted, freely.

[allmendream]

So then, because Einstein didn't and couldn't mention God in his theory of Relativity; therefore it is the ATHEISTIC theory of Relativity?

And because Newton's equation for the universal gravitational attraction of Mass didn't and couldn't include God as one of its factors; therefore it is the ATHEISTIC gravity equation?

And because the theory of Nuclear Fusion didn't and couldn't mention or include God; therefore it is the ATHEISTIC theory of Nuclear Fusion?

Unless I can work God into the theory of how to explode a nuclear bomb, it would be an ATHEISTIC theory of Nuclear Fission?

Absolute delusion.

[Grunthor]

Problem is, whose God are you going to omit?

In a public school situation you don’t get to exclude people or their beliefs, you would have to include all of them.

[Christian_Capitalist]

So then, because Einstein didn't and couldn't mention God in his theory of Relativity; therefore it is the ATHEISTIC theory of Relativity? And because Newton's equation for the universal gravitational attraction of Mass didn't and couldn't include God as one of its factors; therefore it is the ATHEISTIC gravity equation? And because the theory of Nuclear Fusion didn't and couldn't mention or include God; therefore it is the ATHEISTIC theory of Nuclear Fusion? Unless I can work God into the theory of how to explode a nuclear bomb, it would be an ATHEISTIC theory of Nuclear Fission? Absolute delusion.

No, none of those aspects of scientific endeavor stipulate, "you cannot reference God in discussion of these matters." Actually, Einstein often did reference God.

It is only the teaching of Evolutionism in the Government Schools, where any reference to God is specifically prohibited. There's no option on the matter; it's mandated.

Which is in contradiction to the wishes of the great majority of American Parents.

[Christian_Capitalist]

Problem is, whose God are you going to omit? In a public school situation you don’t get to exclude people or their beliefs, you would have to include all of them.

Hence my support for the abolition of Government Schooling.

[valkyry1]

That is one part of the evolutionists that always (without a doubt) comes out right away and it illustrate just how weak their arguments really are.

[valkyry1]

Truth is no one knows how old the earth is but look for more intensified attacks on the Bible. But it is not science the evolutionist does and we all know it.

[Grunthor]

“Hence my support for the abolition of Government Schooling.”

Oh good, I completely agree with you.

[valkyry1]

They always do that pretty much right away.

[Christian_Capitalist]

“Hence my support for the abolition of Government Schooling.” ~~ Oh good, I completely agree with you.

It's the only fair and realistic way to deal with the problem.

The Evolutionists don't want to give up their Monopoly power in the Government Schools; and conversely you have Christian Libertarians like me who don't want my Co-Religionist brethren shoving our cosmological views down other people's throats, either. Oh, I will happily preach you a Sermon any time you ask... but I'm not gonna shove it down your throat.

One-Size-Fits-All Government Schooling is a rigged game, that only the House (the NEA establishment) wins. Let's divvy up the pot and give everyone back their ante, I say.

[starlifter]

Thanks for the update...so now we also have a timeline......

- Graduated HS in 1991 (we assume)
- Couldn't cut college though you tried twice(through 1993)
- Couldn't make it in unskilled labor in Alaska (1994 and beyond?)
- Went to work for a notorious boiler room and could have actively participated in a criminal enterprise(did you even have a Series 7. Probably the easiest professional examination in America)(mid-1996)
- Bum in the Florida Keys (I'll bet your Mitsubishi was really tricked out and a chick magnet. See next point)
- Couldn't find a woman your age so you got a young and impressionable woman to marry you.

Hmmmmmm........ A record of stunning mediocrity with no apparent success at anything after high school.

And you are lecturing the anonymous masses on theology and economics.

Is this a great country or what!!