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Ben Carson #fundie newyorker.com

Now what about the big bang theory, I find the big bang, really quite fascinating. I mean, here you have all these high-faluting scientists and they’re saying it was this gigantic explosion and everything came into perfect order. Now these are the same scientists that go around touting the second law of thermodynamics, which is entropy, which says that things move toward a state of disorganization. So now you’re gonna have this big explosion and everything becomes perfectly organized and when you ask them about it they say, ‘Well we can explain this, based on probability theory because if there’s enough big explosions, over a long period of time, billions and billions of years, one of them will be the perfect explosion. So I say what you’re telling me is if I blow a hurricane through a junkyard enough times over billions and billions of years, eventually after one of those hurricanes there will be a 747 fully loaded and ready to fly. Well, I mean, it’s even more ridiculous than that ‘cause our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can predict 70 years away when a comet is coming. Now that type of organization to just come out of an explosion? I mean, you want to talk about fairy tales, that is amazing. And then even if you want to use their own scientific theories, you've got this mass spinning and then it explodes, in physics we have some called angular momentum and it is preserved, so it should be preserved in any orbit of anything that is affected by gravity around a planet, which means that everything has to traverse in the same direction. Well it doesn't. There are many planets that have satellites or moons that go in opposite directions so that doesn't work with angular momentum. And there are a whole series of things, what about all the debris from the billions and billions of explosions that were not perfect. Where's that? I mean we should be bombarded constantly by all this debris coming down, we're not seeing it. So there's a lot of things there that really require an enormous amount of faith and really what it boils down to is where do you want to put your faith? In Man or in God? Which one makes more sense? And I constantly say, now I'm a person of limited faith, I really don't have enough faith to believe that stuff that they say, I mean that is really beyond belief in terms of the number of coincidences that have to occur and the number of things that have to violate even their own principles in order for it to work.

Steve Tanton #fundie newyorker.com

The reason I don't buy girl scout cookies anymore is one, I can buy virtually the same thin mints at the dollar store for $1, and as an economist I find this reasonable and overcome the urge to fork out three to four times that much to some lovely little girls who remind me of mine at that age. Secondly, I have read enough to know that the girl scouts like their counter-parts the boy scouts albeit differently, have become indoctrination centers for liberal theology assuredly very different than that of their founding. The whole country seems to be upside-down and backwards. My grandmother was gay, now it means one of two absurdities or abnormalities. Bad economics is now good economics and thus it's good to go on welfare and receive money for something one does not do. Racism is now anytime a conservative disagrees with a liberal minority and MLK's preference for character over color has been twisted to become racial preference, embracing bad behavior over good. I'm thinking seriously about becoming an expatriate for the remainder of my life. I can't take much more of this nonsense. Twisting what was to teach little girls about becoming women into indoctrination into "femi-nazis"...well, they've gone too far in my book. I have no problem with a woman earning a fair wage for their work as compared to the average man (which seems to be the issue today), if they are qualified and all else remains the same (which it usually isn't in the real world, because women bear the children and don't have the right physique for the army or the fire department), but I do have a big problem with the in-your-face tactics of the left and the "let's pass it to find out what's in it" crowd. Enough already. God bless you little girls, but I'm not paying ludicrous prices to support ideology to which I am opposed. Perhaps you'll wake up, perhaps you won't, but I for one am heading down another pathway.

Tom DeLay #fundie newyorker.com

DeLay says that when, in the coming years, he is not fighting the indictment in Texas (he insists that he is not guilty) he will be building a conservative grass-roots equivalent of MoveOn.org. “God has spoken to me,” he said. “I listen to God, and what I’ve heard is that I’m supposed to devote myself to rebuilding the conservative base of the Republican Party, and I think we shouldn’t be underestimated.” He said that Republicans should spend their impending exile reminding themselves what they stand for. “I see this as a cleansing process, where you can return to your principles, which are order, justice, and freedom—the basic principles of the conservative movement. We have to redefine government based on conservative principles, we have to win the war against our culture, and we have to win the war on terror.”