I've never understood the sense in how it is politically or socially viable to entertain the delusions of a group of people who really *are* stuck in a time-warp. The Creationist viewpoint is full of hoary old nostrums that Thomas Lyell and Charles Darwin debunked 150 years ago. The Creationist worldview is as follows: 6,000 years ago God created
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The Tea Party is overwhelmingly connected with Creationism: http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2010/02/will_christian_right_join_the_tea_party.html.
Blatantly false, right from your link. You're equating Christian Right to Creationists on no basis and then linking Christian Right to Tea Party also on no basis, and contradicting your own cited article. Overlapping membership is not equality. This is a basic concept.
At least with your climate change idiocy you're just repeating someone else's idiocy.
And I don't see any reason to get into your strawman introduction.
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And really? You disappoint me.
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Have a nice day.
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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/odonnell-on-video-talking-about-god/
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Now what we've calmed down about that fact that she was talking about god, same as many most Democrat politicians do, what did she say?
"God continued to strengthen and empower us when, you know, his strength is perfected in our weakness, and that’s what’s exciting," Ms. O’Donnell told a CBN reporter, Jennifer Wishon. "Because you see that if it weren’t for faith, when all logic said it’s time to quit, we pursued. We marched on, because we knew God was not releasing us to quit. And now, with such an important lame-duck session, you realize why we were to endure all that stuff."
So she's crediting god and her faith for giving her strength to continue her campaign in the face of adversity. Yes, this is terribly, terribly evil and horrible.
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All creationists are wrong, but some, the young earthers, are wronger than others, and it doesn't do any good to tar them all with the same brush.
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Even here however, your argument only applies to biblical literalists and not to creationists in general. The majority of creationists are not biblical literalists but rather see the Bible as an allegory of creation "dumbed down" for the minds of bronze age shepherds.
What you are missing is that one can be a creationist and completely agree with modern evolutionary biology and astrophysics because contrary to what the ID crowd tries to peddle creationism answers the question WHY the events occurred the way they did and science answers the question of HOW it occurred.
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45 percent isn't exactly something to sneeze at:
According to a 2001 Gallup poll, about 45% of North Americans believe that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so."
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