I don’t know why this surprises me.
I guess I’m not surprised, per se, but more just grossed out by how gullible these people are. The man is an attorney, for God’s sake, and the age of the earth is a matter of scientific consensus so strong that Barber has absolutely no excuse for continuing to believe such childish rubbish.
Always remember, kids: Homophobes are never just crazy about one thing; they tend to have verifiably insane, completely incorrect, factually incoherent beliefs on any number of subjects.
[h/t Joe]
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Why do they think it was in October? Unless this was extrapolated from the ‘Fall’ of Man. hahaha
Comment by Gary (NJ) — September 1, 2010 @ 12:32 pm
Hmm…doesn’t the world’s greatest ancient history book also say that the Sun revolves around the Earth?
Comment by PhilipJ — September 1, 2010 @ 12:54 pm
I agree with you, Evan; I’m not surprised either. I think you’ll find that a large proportion of anti-gay activists and that still more – possibly even a majority – of the “ex-gay” brigade are creationists. In fact it wouldn’t surprise me to find that some of them also believe that Copernicus and Galileo got it wrong and that the solar system revolves round our planet, because, to use Alan Chambers’s turn of phrase, “science cannot trump the word of God.”
Comment by William — September 1, 2010 @ 12:56 pm
“…doesn’t the world’s greatest ancient history book also say that the Sun revolves around the Earth?”
Yes, it does, or at least it assumes it, and that’s why we have an Association for Biblical Astronomy and why a “Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right” conference is being held this coming November at South Bend, IN. See also:
http://www.fixedearth.com/
Comment by William — September 1, 2010 @ 1:10 pm
Evan, this is hardly news – 2 years ago, Barber exposed his ignorace about science with his screeds against Evolution, praising the ridiculous ‘Expelled’ film; Liberty ‘University’ has on its payroll, ‘creationist scientists’ (srsly) from Answers In Genesis, the idiots behind the Kentucky-based Creation museum; LU also has dinosaur fossills it claims are no older than 3,000 years old.
Look through Focus On The Family’s book selection: agin, books refuting evolution from …Answers In Genesis.
Ken Ham regularly posts commentaries on AFA’s OneNewsNow. And key financiers of the Discovery Institute, the people behind ‘Intelligent Design’ are / were Howard Ahmandson and Focus On The Family. All because the Fall has to be true at all costs. No Garden Of Eden, no 7 Day Creation, then no need for Salvation, certainly no need for Jesus. Accepting the facts about Evolution and Homosexuality lead to the demise of their faith, into a kind of new age neo-buddhist mist. Darwin leaves no room for anything more than a sort of pantheism, ‘Einstein’s god’. No wonder then that Conservapedia has now called the Theory of Relativity into question as well. I think Barber, LaBarbera, and others are terrified of even daring to question Rev. Ussher’s calculation of the age of the Earth.
On a serious point: if you elect people with views like this, America will become, ‘Left Behind’. It’s already happened on the Texas board of education; and now, stem cell research is in the balance after last week’s ruling. We live in a technological revolution. Economic success depends on scientific brains to drive new ideas, innovation. The Chinese, the Indians, who are producing hundreds of thousands of science graduates every year, will overtake you.
Comment by Adrian-T — September 1, 2010 @ 7:27 pm
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