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[theweaselking]

Jewish group demands apology from Georgia lawmaker, calling a creationist pamphlet distributed under his name anti-semitic, as it derides evolution as a secret Jewish conspiracy.

Of course, when you look a little closer, you realise that the anti-semitism is a very, very small part of the problem, as this lawmaker apparently genuinely believes that the earth does not move.

Sample from that page: "The Earth is not rotating...nor is it going around the sun. Duh, we eat poop."

Comments

[zenten.livejournal.com]

Wait, wait, creationism from my understanding is derived solely from the old testament (and wacky thoughts out of nowhere, but that's something else), not the new testament. The old testament is a Jewish book.

Anyone else see the problem with this?

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Bridges has long opposed the teaching of evolution in Georgia classrooms and has introduced legislation requiring only that "scientific fact" be taught in school.

No amount of aspirin can stop the pain in my head.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Particularly since most Jews (not all, I admit, but the ones who don't really aren't involved in politics, as I've found) have accepted that the whole "seven days" bit was an elaborate metaphor...

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I wish I was very, very rich, so I could sponsor this guy's all-expenses-paid trip to the ISS.

(I also possibly need a rolling-eyes icon.)

[elffin.livejournal.com]

It's always astounded me how the followers of Paul rip off Judaism's holy book and business model, devolve it, then spit on the originators.

It's like Microsoft.

WAIT ****

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

Rabbinical hyperbole. Creationists need to look it up.

[unknownpoltroon.livejournal.com]

THats cause most Jews can read.

[chizzer.livejournal.com]

It's true. I took a number of Tanach and Rabbinics classes in my time (literal and metaphorical translation of the Torah included) and it was admitted that a "day" was simply a name for an unknown period of time.

[toku666.livejournal.com]

I love when they just smoosh "Big Bang" and "Evolution" together as if they're directly linked:

KA-BOOM! --> MONKEYS --> SECULAR HUMANISM

lol

[argaive.livejournal.com]

I was reading part of that "fixed earth" web site and came across this beautiful tid-bit in a parenthetical statement:

This may also disprove the goofy but necessary assumption that the earth’s atmosphere turns with its alleged rotation, adjusting its speed with every inch from the equator to the poles…

He is partly correct here. If the Earth rotates, it is goofy to make that assumption about the Earth's atmosphere. If the Earth rotates, the atmosphere should be subject to the coriolis effect.

Guess what? The observable and observed fact is that the earth's atmosphere definitely does not adjust it's speed "with every inch from the equator to the poles". It does behave in a manner consistent with coriolis.

With this one statement the author of that site shoots himself in the foot and actually provides a way to demonstrate that the earth is in fact rotating.

But I guess since he can't see this with his own eyes, it is not a verifiable scientific fact.

:-)

A.

heh

[raie.livejournal.com]

I guess if he cannot see it with his own eyes it is not scientific fact.

Except that inivisible omnipotent God thing. We can make that exclusion.

Everyone knows the earth only moves and evolution only happens when God wants it to.

:P

PS: Sorry for the random comment, just a lurker lurking.

[harper-knight.livejournal.com]

That's because they don't have people telling them that the whole bible is literal truth all the time. Well, not people they trust.