Scientists are leftist thinkers now? Just like you believe after reading the Gospels that Christianity and Jesus were Right Wingers. A lot of true Christians over the last 2,000 years would think you daft and in truth you are. Stupid man don’t you get that evolution and Genesis are easily reconciled, if you so desire. Unfortunately, since I assume you are of a Protestant denomination, you didn’t get that Marin Luther was saying that everyone needed to come to their own understanding of scripture. I bet you don’t even know who Martin Luther is and couldn’t care less that your version of Christianity would have scandalized Jesus.

i am not surprised by this statement…a mormon missionary said to me that if i didn’t become a mormon i would be in the lowest class in the afterlife which is like a faint star in the night sky..

the mormons have 3 classes of afterlife…one that is considered like the sun where all the mormon believers in that they are the only ones to the right of prophethood from moses…then, those who just believe in jesus are in the second class which is like the moon (cause it has it’s own light)… the last class is those who don’t believe in anything and are like a star one can barely see in the sky…

first of all…i believe in Jesus or Emmanuel ( which is another subject in the mormon religion if not all of christianity)…so, i informed this missionary from ARIZONA…whose family is high up in the church…i told him that a faint star can be a star that is from the begining of the universe and so far away that it can hardly be seen…or it could be a glaxy that we only see it from the side view and even if it is a star that is dying it would pulse and not really be faint…

so, the lesson is the mormons’ believe the religious test is after one of their leaders becomes the president…until then their is no religious test for becoming president…

as far as i care they want to pay the United States back for the loss of the war which resulted in the state of Utah!!!

I think that this Arizona expert must be an Aunt of Sarah Palin. They have a similar level of scientific knowledge. Doesn’t the SAT or ACT test in science in Alaska and Arizona?
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Yes but the SAT in these states as well Texas stands for Side Arm Tactic and the ACT means Axe Chopping Tree.

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Why is it that you can’t accept the government story that most pizza oven’s can melt structural steel? As you are well aware, most pizza ovens cook at 2066F. LOL

point taken.

If it was a one time thing, I’d probably buy that. However your history of posting non sequiturs in an obviously provoking manner establishes a clear pattern.

I’ve been wrong before, and would like to be wrong now. If you are sincere in wanting to have a conversation, tone down “Stupid progressives” rhetoric, and maybe you’ll get people to take you seriously.

I am not trying to illicit an angry response, I am trying to say that everyone has some goofy beliefs.

This woman is obviously misguided and is in dire need of an earth science class. I dont really understand why they think a belief in God precludes embracing science. Or that if you believe science it will somehow eliminate God. For Christ sake 11th century scholars were asking those sorts of questions. I would think Christianity would have moved ahead somewhat in a 1000 years.

But on the flip side many on this site think that government spending leads to economic prosperity or that high taxes are good for the economy. They are as dogmatic in this belief as this woman is in hers.

Now you’ve just hit bottom. 1/10 for this Troll.

Mike,

Willingness to engage doesn’t mean one’s not a troll, it just means that one’s a troll with a longer attention span. It’s the posting things just to get angry responses that makes the troll.

I would believe the earth is 6,000 years old before I would believe that high taxes lead to prosperity.

I have a photograph of a caveman riding a triceratops while talking to space aliens who are giving him the secret of the internet. According to the creationists it’s a religious relic.

“there is increasing acceptance of absurd notions in this country.”

Alan Dulles warned everyone nearly half a century ago; “Americans don’t read.”

Right now you could take someone who failed the Physics regents exam and literally get the board of regents to pass him based solely on the number of questions that would have to be discarded due to the number of laws of physics that were miraculously changed on September 11, 2001.

Silly me, I had no idea Article I vested congress with the power to change the physical laws of the universe.

JT,
I’m sorry that you and the others have fallen into that same old trap of those who are not God-Fearing believers and that trap is named science. It is so obvious that God put in the false clues to make people like you doubt the truth of Genesis and thereby prove your unworthiness for entry into His Kingdom.
Don’t you get it? The Lord can do anything, even down to making
DNA evidence seem real.

Mespo,
The Sumerians, 6,000 years ago? You really fell for that one.
God is good, but he also has a sense of humor before he sentences you to eternal damnation. Next thing you’ll be writing about are those phony neanderthals and the bones God left in place to mess with your non-believing mind.

http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/02/dont-misunderinvestigate-me.html

Pardon me. I’d like to comment more on State Sen. Allen’s scientific acumen, but I’ve just been informed that the Easter Bunny here to see me.

I’d always wondered where that was faked. LOL Yellow Cake and Copper Slag ARE your friends, if you’re a rapper!

I do think JT made a good point about god’s first envirnomental law. I think I’ll e-mail her office with that quandry and see how she resolves it.

The landscape around Show Low and Snowflake, Arizona resembles that of the moon. (Actually, it may be where NASA faked the 69 moon landing.) It rained some really cool metals there about 6,000 years ago and the mining folk have gone to town digging ever since. But, were you to visit that area, a mention of arsenic in the water to the locals might get you “thowed” out. Arsenic is a “normal” by product of mining. That it somehow finds its way into ground water and underground rivers in that area is just fine because as any good robber baron will tell you market forces will somehow magically step in and save you from any bodily harm…bodily harm, of course, being something that you might possibly be able to prove in a decade long law suit. Don’t resist any longer. Yellow Cake and Copper slag is your fiend. Say it together now: “Earth is 6000 years old and that it has done just fine without environmental laws of any kind for most of that time.” LOL

Vince T., thanks for the link. One of the drawbacks to being self-taught is that it’s too easy to skip your homework.

“{Arsenic poisoning} kills by allosteric inhibition of essential metabolic enzymes, leading to death from multi-system organ failure. It primarily inhibits enzymes that require lipoic acid as a cofactor, such as pyruvate and alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase. Because of this, substrates before the dehydrogenase steps accumulate, such as pyruvate (and lactate). It particularly affects the brain, causing neurological disturbances and death.”

I believe we have an explanation!

Mike, there is no accountablily for her education because, by her own admission in an interview given when she was a candidate, she is self taught:

“TAC [The Arizona Conservative]: General comments: Please comment on any issue or topic not raised above:

SA [Sylvia Allen]: I am very concerned about our rural families. The cost of living; food, housing, energy, and taxes continue to go up. We need better paying jobs. We need to ask this question: Are we getting our monies worth? It seems that more money and new programs to administer excessive regulations are always the solution to every problem. We can’t keep doing the same old thing and think we will get anything new. As a lifelong, self-taught student of the philosophy this nation was founded on, I would like to be a voice and a vote for time-tested principles that just need new methods of applying them.

http://www.azconservative.org/Q&A_SAllen.htm

Wow! “a lifelong, self-taught student of the philosophy this nation was founded on.”

There’s arsenic in the water around there.

Of course, the senator’s comments will also come as something of a surprise to the Native American tribes that have inhabited Arizona for over 10,000 years.

Jonathan,

This entry was a tour de force!

mespo,

That was great also! It’s probably exactly how it all happened.

AF,

I’d love to see that movie! I’d pick her as head of the FDA though.

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JT:

I hope you cleared this line with Homeland Security. I heard that in the build-up to the Iraqi War, this was the exact line Rumsfeld used when presented with the Nigerian yellow-cake uranium forgeries which he, in turn, used as a justification to Bush for the policy. Sources say Bush understood the sentiment and was later seen puttering around the White House happily muttering the phrase.

I don’t think I can agree. If you take some substance out, even air some structures will collapse because of void and gravity will collapse the inner core because of what used to fill the hole. Not that I am aware of anything geological.

“Moonshine

A young man was hitchhiking down south and a farmer driving an old pickup truck stopped to give him a lift.

As they were driving, the farmer started bragging about how good the local moonshine whiskey was. The young man told the farmer that he didn’t drink very much, and that moonshine would probably be too strong for his tastes.

“Nonsense!” said the farmer. “You gotta try some.” She fished around behind her and finally produced a small jug. “Here,” she said, handing the jar to the lad. “Take a drink!”

“Oh, no thanks,” said the young man. “I really don’t think I care for any.”

“No, I insist,” pressed the farmer. “Have some.”

“No, thanks – really,” said the young man.

The farmer wasn’t going to take no for an answer. She stopped the truck and grabbed her shotgun from the rack in back. She pointed the gun at the lad and roared, “I said, take a drink!”

“Okay! Okay!” said the young man. He took a few swallows and instantly realized just how powerful the stuff was. His throat muscles tightened, his eyes watered, and he made a choking sound.

“What do you think of it?” asked the farmer. “Good, ain’t it?”

“Yeah,” gasped the lad, afraid he would be forced to drink more if he disagreed, “I guess so.”

Then the farmer handed the young man the shotgun and grinned. “Here! Now, you hold the gun on me and make me drink some!”.

Brilliant and scary too – I look forward to the horror movie (or black comedy?), “Creationist Whitehouse” starring Sarah Palin (President) and Sylvia Allen (Foreign Secretary)

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6000 years ago? That’s about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue. Quite a civilization indeed, that could invent things on the planet before the planet was formed.