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[johnny9fingers]

For some reason or other this makes me happy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070526/sc_nm/usa_museum_dc_2;_ylt=Ai8RCQ2ge90mxOTtjIyqq8GEDvII


At least the lines are being drawn and now we all know where we stand.
The non-rational can no longer use Gödel's incompleteness I & II as an excuse.
There is just no way that in an universal flood, a representative breeding pair of every known species in the world could have fitted onto a small boat the dimensions of which are laid out in Genesis. (450ft long with a gross volume of some 1.5 million feet, considerably less than required to have repopulated the world with reasonable genetic diversity after the deluge.) One also wonders how the exotic species that exist only in locations hugely distant from the ark could have made a journey across oceans and continents. How do the wombats manage to travel to get into the Ark? Or the Koalas, or the Possums. Never mind. I'm not entirely certain that specimens of every land based arthropod could be fitted into such a small space, but...I'm sure someone will prove me wrong.

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[thaliastrel.livejournal.com]

I just don't get it. How old the world is, or the dinosaurs, or the Grand Canyon, is so irrelevant to real life (especially with all those other things you mentioned going on) that I don't even understand why people bother to form opinions on it. Of all the issues to choose from, people still want to debate this?

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

The debate is about the literal truth of the Bible, the belief in which informs many of these people's other opinions, often to the detriment of society in general, and sane political policy in particular.

[thaliastrel.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Too true...

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

It matters to them so much that they'll twist themselves into logical pretzels in order to deny anything that contradicts the literal truth of the bible, like for example: evolution, geology, plate techtonics, continental drift, the age of the universe, physics in general...etc etc.