Monday, September 21, 2009

Richard and Judy Wonder Why

The Daily Express has an editorial by "The Nation's Favourite TV Couple," Richard and Judy on the rejection of evolution in the United States. The first line, describing the rejection of evolution by nearly 60% of the American public nearly made me snort a sandwich through my nose:
SOMETIMES a statistic leaps off the page, grabs one by the ears and shakes hard.
Yes, it does. The column is mostly lighthearted disbelief but along the way, there is a very, very, very sobering observation:
The same people who mock fundamentalist Islamists for believing that suicide bombers are martyrs, to be rewarded in paradise with honey and patiently-queueing virgins, will confidently tell you that God created the world in six days (ie 144 hours) and that all living things – dinosaurs, hummingbirds, elephants, sabre-toothed tigers, cockroaches and human beings – appeared in the same instant.

Sad, but true.
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2 comments:

  1. confidently tell you that God created the world in six days (ie 144 hours) and that all living things – dinosaurs, hummingbirds, elephants, sabre-toothed tigers, cockroaches and human beings – appeared in the same instant.

    Well, actually dinosaurs hummingbirds came the day before dinosaurs; and God created humans on the same day as dinosaurs, but later in the day. Just what sort of anti-science mumbo-jumbo are Richard and Judy trying to peddle here? Even creationists have limits!

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  2. Now, where is that cartoon of Jesus riding the dinosaur? I know it put it here somewhere...

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