Try actually reading the words of those posting here. They aren’t saying what your prejudiced mind imagines them saying.

Impossible to believe, actually.

By the way, the original song goes like this:

“Why, oh why, Ohio–
Why did I leave Ohio…”

It’s from a Broadway play in the 1950′s called “My Sister Eileen.”

We’ve got to stop treating these people like a joke, and take them as the serious threat to mankind’s long term survival that they really are.

could be wrong

Well, if the words of those posting here doesn’t express it… what does?

Eventually, I’m going to LASSO’s star party in Foxpark. Just not this year…

Lyrics to the song “Pollution”: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Pollution-lyrics-Tom-Lehrer/E439EF548F571DF548256A7D00258670

Flash animation of his “The Elements”: http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html

One of the ‘great lyricists’ of parody, and also someone who had a strong effect on my childhood.

J/P=?

On the other hand I have known people who have honestly believed that they were taught rightly to believe that Earth herself was only 6000-7000 years old. I’ve had arguments with them, both based on The Bible, and on science. I found that in the end it was easier for me to just go outside and try to teach a rock to fly.

Over the years I’ve left the church behind and moved on with my life. But I still meet people in my daily life who believe a myriad of things that were taught to them by the church they went to and will go to their graves believing it because it was supposedly inspired by God the Creator.

To presume that any one person Knows what every Christian believes is to presume wrongly. I’ve known Christians who believed the world was created, albeit millions or billions of years ago, Christians who believe the stuff they read in their Bible is only allegory, Christians who believe their Pastor/Minister/Priest can heal with the laying on of hands, Christians who believe in devils and demons and exorcism, Christians who believe that demons are only our own inner monsters, and yes, Christians who believe that Mother Earth is only, ONLY a few thousand years old.

I live near the great smokey mountains of western North Carolina. And while those magnificent mountains are mere shadows of their former selves, there are places like the Cherokee Indian Reservation, the Nantahala Gorge, and the Blue Ridge Parkway where if you stop and listen with your whole being, you can feel a lot more than 6000 years bearing down on you.

So do I or my alter-ego Conspeeracy Theoriser know anything about Christians..? Yes, we do. We were them at one point. Do others here? I’m sure they do… after all lots of us were before we opened our minds to the fact that there is too much imperfection in Nature to have it be some great created thing, and even more wonder in the fact that it all came together in this highly imperfect mass of life and energy. I have no doubt that some of my fellow travelers still believe even though I have serious doubts based on a lifetime of things that make no sense from my Christian upbringing. I guess that in time I just found the irony of the church pushing science to prove The Bible is truth, only to have science prove otherwise, to be the one thing to make me start to think and not blindly believe.

In the final summing up, yes there ARE Christians who believe the world is only a few thousand years old and basically do deserve the flack that a lot here are giving them. Prove that it is only a few thousand years old, and use something besides a collection of books that were written to make the people follow the leaders or to illustrate how bad behavior could bring any one down low. Creationism–especially the 6000 year old branch–just doesn’t hold any water.

P.s. As for Noah and his ark… just where in the name of all that’s semi-sorta-kinda-maybe-almost-nearly holy did he store all the hay and bugs and meat and such it woulda took to feed all those animals, or was it a closed loop system with every thing making a meal of everything else on board?

How do you know what we know? Kinda jumpin’ to conclusions aren’t ya there pardner?

Oopsie…!

If we hadn’t moved back here to Colorado, I do think that Jackson might have been our next choice. Also gorgeous!

Have a great time Phil! oh, and yeah, those rocks don’t look a day over 5,999.9.

God need only manifest his creation when there is someone to appreciate it. While most will just naively look and goggle at the majesty without a thought or care about how or why, which pleases God immensely, not Phil. God knew that Phil would drop that snapshot into his blog and challenge us all to make a personal judgment about the age of those rocks.

Ya see, the real trick of this faith thing is determining when what we see is God’s efforts to fool us about the nature of the Universe, and when it is the Devil’s efforts to fool us about the nature of the Universe. I’m not clear on the distinction myself, but I’m working on it. Whatever God wants me to blindly believe I’m all for that, as this thinking thing is really a bother.

Oh yeah, and fish were what everyone ate on the ark, which is why God only now has time to micro-evolutionize those deep sea ones we are finding. It’s a busy job keeping the deception going but he’s the Man!

Sinus minded?

Come on now, don’t get snotty!