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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 05:42 AM Jun 2014

5 Doomed, Hilarious Efforts by the Religious Right to Disprove Science

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/5-doomed-hilarious-efforts-religious-right-disprove-science



1. Climate Change Isn’t Happening, but if It Is That’s Fine Because It Means Jesus Is Coming

Who’s not worried about climate change? Pastor and conservative radio host Matthew Hagee, who thinks the extreme weather and melting polar caps are not signs of man’s deleterious effect on the environment but rather augurs of Jesus’ impending return.

"The Bible says that whenever we approach the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ,that there would be strange weather patterns, “Hagee said. “Do we believe what an environmentalist group says and choose to live in a world where we're attempting to make everything as clean in the air as possible, or do we believe what the Bible says, that these things were going to happen and that rather than try to clean up all of the air and solve all of the problems of the world by eliminating factories, we should start to tell people about Jesus Christ who is to return?”

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2. Creationism, Dinosaurs, and the Loch Ness Monster

Rubio had previously disputed to GQ the age of the earth (he quickly backtracked and admitted the earth’s age had been established at 4.5 billion), a necessary two-step given his creationist base. But creationism runs into a problem, most succinctly voiced by Bill Hicks’ one word rebuttal: dinosaurs.

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3. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s new show Cosmos is driving the right bonkers. Episodes ranging from evolution to the Big Bang to climate change to birds are drawing hackles from the right, as he weekly drops time-tested scientific theories like anvils on creationist fables.

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4. AIDS Has Been Weaponized to Doom Heterosexual Culture

HIV/AIDS seems particularly lodged in the darker regions of the conservative movement. But modern conservatives have had trouble maintaining the idea that the disease was a moral verdict upon homosexual decadence after the eradication in the public’s mind of the myth of AIDS as “ the gay disease.”
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5 Doomed, Hilarious Efforts by the Religious Right to Disprove Science (Original Post) xchrom Jun 2014 OP
I love the smell of GOP brains exploding in the morning. longship Jun 2014 #1
Regarding point # 2, Hoppy Jun 2014 #2
 

Hoppy

(3,595 posts)
2. Regarding point # 2,
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 07:16 AM
Jun 2014

all's you dumbasses need to do is visit the Creation Museum where truth be told. There, you will find a kid on a saddle, riding on a dinosaur. God will punish you doubting Thomasis when I get in the ampitheater with the Big Guy and you don't.

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