Ruh-roh. Newt may have just lost the fundie vote.

[KamaAina]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich#Other_interests

Gingrich wrote the introduction to America's Best Zoos and he is a dinosaur enthusiast. A New Yorker writer said of his 1995 book To Renew America: "Charmingly, he has retained his enthusiasm for the extinct giants into middle age. In addition to including breakthroughs in dinosaur research on his list of futuristic wonders, he specified 'people interested in dinosaurs' as a prime example of who might benefit from his education proposals."

This won't sit well with the Jebus-rode-dinos crowd, a significant chunk of the SC repuke electorate.

Then again, in Newt's case, dinosaur research is simply family history.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Being interested in dinosaurs isn't disqualifying

as long as he emphasizes that people and dinosaurs coexisted 6,000 years ago.

[BeyondGeography]

9. That's right

Just say your favorite dinosaur wears a saddle and you're cool.

[DCBob]

20. yeah, just like the Flintstones.

[Adsos Letter]

2. The fundies I know believe the dinosaurs were killed in The Flood.

Not necessarily a problem for them.

[tanyev]

5. I knew a pastor who was convinced that God just put the bones in the ground as a practical joke.

Best part was, one of his young sons was crazy about dinosaurs.

[mzteris]

7. a lot think "gawd" put dinosaur bones

in the ground to "test their faith".

However, some I've met think "the devil" put them there for the SAME REASON!

hmmmmmmm...........

[Charlemagne]

15. Same thing

I talked to a friends husband who was a baptist minister. I said that a lot of churches dont see a problem with evolution and dinosaurs. He told me that dinosaur bones were put there to "test mans faith." I ended the conversation after that.

[tanyev]

14. My dad was a pastor, so I grew up knowing lots of them,

but I never heard of any that denied dinosaurs until I ran into this guy in the 90s. These were all Lutheran ministers who are required to get a bachelor's degree before they can enter seminary which is another four years of study. They may be very conservative theologically, but they don't usually fall victim to the typical fundie B.S. I guess fundie-itis is spreading everywhere.

[Charlemagne]

16. I went to grad school with a fundi girl who had an MA in archeology.

She believed the earth was only 6k years old. I asked her how that would work considering her degree. She told me, "you can do the work and write articles but you dont have to believe what you write."

[tanyev]

17. Yikes. That's why I left the denomination in which I grew up for a more liberal denomination.

[RainDog]

21. the power of indoctrination

[Critters2]

18. I know a Missour Synod pastor who believes this.

I'd heard of such craziness, but didn't believe it until I got talking to this nutjob at a clergy lunch once.

[Mnemosyne]

11. Noah wouldn't let them on the Ark because he feared they would eat the rest. n/t

[cthulu2016]

3. Fundies belive in dinosaurs

[Crankie Avalon]

4. No problem, fundies know that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.

[KansDem]

6. No problem! He'll just need to show them this...

[Wistful Vista]

8. That youngster Jebus is holding was a human before it got exposed to religion...

[AlinPA]

10. !!!! I've seen it all, now. Oh, My.

[izquierdista]

13. Isn't that so sad!

And he had such a lock on it, what with his three marriages and being a Cathy-lick.

[opihimoimoi]

19. Noot is Moot...I keep saying this...LOL the man is deluded

[mzteris]

22. seeing the dinosaur bones

@ the Smithsonian when I was 6 yo started my "questioning". I questioned and denied and ignored and pretended for over 40 years before my 5 yo was able to convenience me there's NO WAY ANY OF THAT STUFF IS TRUE, Mom! It doesn't make sense . . . and I finally finally let go my desperate attempt to cling to "belief system" that I didn't - and had really never - believed in. Just all my family, all my friends, all my upbringing was centered around "the Church'. I'd even tried a more "liberal church", but truly it's not that much more liberal regardless what they say considering the premise upon which "religion" is built.