Danny Glover's Inanity Viewed on Geological Timescales

[jordan179]

As many people already know, the actor Danny Glover recently implied that the Haiti Earthquake was some sort of payback on the part of the Earth against humanity for global warming. I replied to brianblackberry's post (http://brianblackberry.livejournal.com/449966 ( Read more... )

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[sianmink]

Earth =/= Pandora

Gaia =/= Eywa

Mister Glover has been in Hollywood too long.

[unixronin]

Deep time? If we're really talking deep time, even the age of the Earth is a cosmic eyeblink.

[unixronin]

Yeah. In the circles I run with, Young Earth Creationism Uber Alles is the main reaction to Deep Space & Deep Time. Despite Christianity having an elegant solution to this problem in the Doctrine of the Incarnation, a LOT of American Christians freak out when confronted by Deep Time and retreat into a cozy 6014-year-old, Earth-and-some-lights-in-the-firmament Punyverse.

[jordan179]

Despite Christianity having an elegant solution to this problem in the Doctrine of the Incarnation, a LOT of American Christians freak out when confronted by Deep Time and retreat into a cozy 6014-year-old, Earth-and-some-lights-in-the-firmament Punyverse.

Many Greens do essentially the same thing by proclaiming that the human future must take place entirely upon the Earth, and refusing to consider that anything beyond the Earth itself (save the Sun's energy) has any meaningful effect upon us or can possibly comprise any opportunity for our endeavors. They basically claim that Deep Space and Deep Time exist, but are too pure to be sullied by our manipulation.

[polaris93]

Sounds like we've got all kinds of fundamentalists out there, not just Christian or Muslim ones. The moron quotient is frighteningly high in this country . . .

[operations]

In which case the earth is dumb as shit, because Haiti was one of the LEAST developed nations on the planet. If it wanted revenge, it would waste China, which is the largest polluter.

[jordan179]

In which case the earth is dumb as shit, because Haiti was one of the LEAST developed nations on the planet. If it wanted revenge, it would waste China, which is the largest polluter.

Indeed. And, switching from Danny Glover to Pat Robertson, less Christian. It's almost as if this earthquake was just the product of blind geological forces!

[polaris93]

You might enjoy this: http://polaris93.livejournal.com/1810419.html

[juliet_winters]

That thought crossed my mind, too. Why not China?

[xolo]

Hmm... You think he might be a dumbass?

Old Hollywood director's proverb:

[xolo]

"ACTOR MINUS SCRIPT EQUALS INCOHERENCE."

[brezhnev]

Sounds like lack of science knowledge there. It's like all those idiots who blamed Bush the Younger for the Pacific tsunami. Climate patterns don't have anything to do with plate tectonics. Conservation and sustainable development are important, but misunderstanding the issues doesn't help the cause.