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Another proud day for the red team.
Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) tore into scientists as tools of the devil in a speech at the Liberty Baptist Church Sportsman’s Banquet last month.“All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of ,” Broun said. “And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.”
According to Broun, the scientific plot was primarily concerned with hiding the true age of the Earth. Broun serves on the House Science Committee, which came under scrutiny recently after another one of its Republican members, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), suggested that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses against pregnancy.
“You see, there are a lot of scientific data that I’ve found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth,” he said. “I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says.”
Here he is, standing in front of dozens of deer heads, giving his speech:Broun — a physician, with an M.D. and a B.S. in chemistry — is generally considered to be among the most conservative members of Congress, if not the most. He drew national attention in 2010 for saying he did not know if President Obama was an American citizen.
In his speech, a clip of which was provided to TPM by The Bridge Project, a non-profit progressive tracker, Broun credited his literal Biblical interpretation with driving his approach to government.
The full 47-minute speech, posted by the Liberty Baptist Church, can be found here.
“What I’ve come to learn is that it’s the manufacturer’s handbook, is what I call it,” he said. “It teaches us how to run our lives individually, how to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all of public policy and everything in society. And that’s the reason as your congressman I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that.”
TPM reached out to a spokeswoman for Broun, but did not immediately receive a response.
This guy is like a movie character. A science major who doesn't believe in science. Crazy ass young Earth creationist. It's really funny until you realize he's voting on policy in Congress and violating the treaty of Tripoli, etc.
Another proud day for the red team.
I believe Jesus is gonna come back any day now -specifically to slap assholes like this. Idiots like this are going to makec those of us sane Christians wear bags on our heads. Damn.
Bill Nye and this guy should have a debate.
edit: and don't forget the dozens of deerheads
Last edited by z0sa; 10-06-2012 at 01:19 AM.
I was gonna say. Guys like this give Christians a bad name. Luckily, they seem to be a minority.
bull , this guy ain't an exception. This Bible-thumping cretin is one of 10Ms of Americans, esp Repugs, who:
Four in 10 Americans Believe in Strict Creationism
http://www.gallup.com/poll/145286/fo...eationism.aspx
Poll: Most Republicans Doubt Evolution
http://www.christianpost.com/news/po...olution-27915/
The other wonderful fantasy of these assholes is that man and dinosaurs co-existed.
Repugs deny evolution
Repugs, "Chistians" deny AGW
Repugs, "Chistians" deny BLS numbers.
Repugs and their "Christian" fellow travelers taking America into a New Dark Ages. America, the laughing stock of other industrial countries.
I said a minority, not an exception...
What kind of credentials do you have to have to be on these committees anyways?
This is embarrassing imo
"knowing God's mind and doing God's work" immunizes these benighted assholes against any shame and exempts them from any science or facts.
Georgia and other Southern, rural states and rural districts repeatedly elect these assholes to represent them in Congress. And they do and will elect such assholes to state judgeships.
eg, Akin is still at it and now being supported by the national Repug money machine.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 10-06-2012 at 11:47 AM.
dude might look hilarious but the big bang theory is really nothing but bull . doubt most scientists do actually believe this themselves, they just make it look mysterious and make a living off it imho
"big bang theory is really nothing but bull "
whew! So glad we got that cleared up.
The bottom line Evolution is a religion it doesn't belong in the text books.
The Big Bang is science fiction it belongs in the fairytale section of the library.
A place you've probably never been.
Your opinion isn't worth imho.
I'm here now.
Then you should probably start reading some books not endorsed by Alex Jones.
What have you read that has convinced you the Big Bang is bull ?
Are all the expansion vectors consistent with coming from a singularity still?
the universe has been enlarging all the time since the earliest known history but it doesn't mean there was something like a big bang or that it'll keep growing in size infinitely. scientists should be aware that what we know about the universe is still very limited at this point of time and any theory can be proven wrong in the future. just like the story of blind men and the elephant tbh
What we know about the big bang is not that limited. If things have been expanding "since the earliest known history", then we can obviously infer that they things were closer together at one point (Singularity!).
can't incline to agree with you mate, human's knowledge is very limited and our history is an ephemeral flash compared to that of the universe. another example, the earth is warming right now but we know it's just part of the big circle of climate change. the earth is cooling down maybe a few centuries later and history will repeat itself when the earth starts to get warm again, with the circle rolling on and on.
You Share 98.7 Percent of Your DNA With This Sex-Obsessed Ape
Earlier this month, just before the famed creationism debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham, I published an article drawing attention to a stunning piece of evidence in favor of the theory of evolution—one that terrifies creationists. The article received so much attention that a follow-up seemed in order; after all, there's much more where that came from. The evidence in question emerges from the field of genetics, the realm of science that, above all others, makes the case for evolution irrefutable through its ability to quantify the precise degree of interrelatedness between organisms by comparing their genetic codes.
So what does genetics tell us about evolution? Not just that organisms that are more closely related to one another share more DNA—precisely as they should—but also that there is, in effect, a missing link inscribed in the human genetic code. The telltale evidence involves human chromosome 2, which was formed by the ancestral fusion of two smaller chromosomes after we diverged from orangutans, gorillas, and chimpanzees. The image below, which Mother Jones created based on two National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) images of the human and chimpanzee genomes, shows this plainly. As you can see, while our genome is very close to that of chimpanzees overall, chimps have two smaller chromosomes, labeled 2a and 2b by NCBI, where we have simply chromosome 2.
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So in sum: Genetic evidence shows clearly that while orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos have 24 chromosome pairs, humans and our closest extinct ancestors (Neanderthals and Denisovans) have 23. And we know why that is: In modern humans and these other hominins, chromosome 2 shows clear genetic evidence of a fusion event that must have happened after our lineage split from chimpanzees and bonobos, but before our divergence with Neanderthals and Denisovans. The proof is right there in the DNA.
Faced with this, those who call themselves creationists are in a pretty uncomfortable position. Their bodies' own cells prove them wrong.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...chromosome-two
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Here he is, standing in front of dozens of deer heads, giving his speech:
that's NRA wallpaper, isn't it
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