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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I am proud to say that I was an early (donor) supporter of Paul Broun! I lived in SC at the time, but Broun was a congressional candidate from neighboring GA, and I somehow found out about him. Gave him $50, later he sent a handwritten note thanking me, and I am proud to say I was one of his early supporters!.
-JS
different pigment isn’t a mutation, they had that information in there genes as an option, all along. the ones with poor coloring get eaten off, so no kidding the ones that prosper are the ones that belnd in better.
different colors are variations in an existing gene, not new info or mutations. for the mths you’re talking about, when the trees were dark, the lighter moths got’picked’off and most of the dark ones were the majority, when coal got clener and the trees weren’t so sooty anymore, they found the dark ones stuck out and birds ate them and the nubmers of the lighter moths increased.
There are some fakes out there who want you to think they combine Pentecostalism into the picture but they don't ~ you start doing anything out of the ordinary around those snakes you get bit bad!
Only that Jesus (and the appostles including Paul) believed in Noah and the historical record in Genesis.
I would also add that how do you explain the geneologies from Adam-Isaac-David-Christ?
There is the direct tree mentioned linking Adam to Christ in some Biblical Books!
Could someone please address why embryology comes from the pit of hell?
Agreed. The congressman is correct but I would much rather like to leave the preaching to my pastor.
Your comments would be more at home on DU, please consider going over there. You are adding nothing productive to this thread with personal attacks and insults.
The Brits use the term ‘race’ where Americans use the term ‘breed’ ~ which, in England, is a process and not an categorization. You don’t want to know what the Dutch say about either term ~
what things are those?
If I worried about derision from nøøbs, I would have developed an ulcer long ago.
But thanks.
Nope. Not going to argue with faith. Just saying not all men act like animals, though the great majority do.
I don’t believe in the “Big Bang” .. I believe in the “Big Oscillation”. :)
Maybe you can explain coal.
How did crude oil get where it is ?
How did fossils from the seabed find their way to the mountain tops ?
The biblical days and references to creation are beyond our understanding.
If you have read the book, you will see that he meant “race” as in the way we use it today. In fact, it’s such a scandal, that the title has been changed for more recent publication of the book (i.e. a copy printed after 1960 does not have the same title).
Ideas have consequences.
One of Darwins’ consequences is the “science” of eugenics (started in Germany and the US). Followed by Margret Sanger.
Google around for connections between racism, eugenics, darwin and margret sanger — you will find many
A few days later, Hurricane Katrina, 2005:
An amorphous blob of clouds into a highly organized system with a perfectly symmetrical eye, counterclockwise spiral bands at the surface, and clockwise outflow at high altitudes. And all of this just from a bunch of air and water vapor molecules with no intelligence whatsoever, just the input of energy.
YES! Ping
If you don’t believe the Biblical days and references to creation, your choice, but please don’t expect those of us who do believe to consider you a believer. God could dissolve this universe in an instant, and create another one just like it if he so chose. Built-in with all these so called “proofs” of yours. Your evolutionary deity has to have billions of years, mine doesn’t. Your “god” is not my God.
Oh, boy! Popcorn, please.
No two popped kernels have ever likely shared the same geometry.
No matter how old the world is God created it. He does this on his time schedule, not ours.
Can he help it if he looks down the Democrat side of the table, then goes “Those guys survived millions of years of evolution? Are you freakin’ kiddin’ me?”
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