:Actually, what's funny is all the dates for the age of dinosaurs, the big bang theory, and everything else that scientists accept as fact today were formulated when they were still putting dinosaur skeletons together all wrong.”
How does assembly of a dinosaur skeleton affect the estimates of the age of the universe?
“There was no possible way to determine the age of these creatures, it was all just guesswork.”
No, bubbles. Just… No.
“Rather than coming up with new ages that better explain the origin of the species, scientists just stuck with the original, off the wall numbers.”
And you know this because of your degree in…?
“I don't know how old the earth is, but I feel very certain it isn't ANYWHERE close to how old they say it is.”
How do you stand on the issue of transgendered people, then? I mean, if you think that ‘feelings’ are compelling, then surely you agree that ‘feeling’ that you’re a woman makes you a woman, no?
“Besides, what's Palin going to do? "THE EARTH IS 6000 YEARS OLD! GAH!" *hit nuclear launch button*. How does that have any bearing on anything?”
Reagan’s secretary of the interior was in a hurry to suck profit out of our public lands because the Apocalypse was happening any time now and there was no need to save anything for future generations.
Letting the superstitious make decisions is always going to have a bearing on how the rest of us live.