Palinology (or, Proof Dinosaurs and Man once lived together)

[Whoa_Nelly]

Palinology

Get ready for more fallout over Sarah Palin, who seems to be even crazier than I thought. There was an attempt to rehabilitate her from the accusations of pushing creationism recently, but the counterclaims got the facts all wrong. They claim that she only said that schools ought to "debate both sides," but that's the creationist position — pointing out that she was reciting creationist slogans does not somehow get her off the hook. And then there's this litany of eyewitness stories from residents of her home town, who seem to be cheerfully trotting out to stick a knife in her campaign.

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Another valley activist, Philip Munger, says that Palin also helped push the evangelical drive to take over the Mat-Su Borough school board. "She wanted to get people who believed in creationism on the board," said Munger, a music composer and teacher. "I bumped into her once after my band played at a graduation ceremony at the Assembly of God. I said, 'Sarah, how can you believe in creationism -- your father's a science teacher.' And she said, 'We don't have to agree on everything.'

"I pushed her on the earth's creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she'd seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them."

Munger also asked Palin if she truly believed in the End of Days, the doomsday scenario when the Messiah will return. "She looked in my eyes and said, 'Yes, I think I will see Jesus come back to earth in my lifetime.'"


And a bit more re: revealing the nutso Palin...
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/09/palinology.php

[Vickers]

1. "I think I will see Jesus come back to earth in my lifetime."

My God, fundies are so self-absorbed and ego-centric.

[liberal N proud]

3. The amazing or frightening thing is how many people

believe that it will happen in their lifetime.

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. As opposed to those who think it is a possibility at all? Those people are scary too.

:crazy:

[Nye Bevan]

2. Photographic proof that dinosaurs and cavemen DID live together

[Junkdrawer]

5. Someone needs to photoshop Palin's face ( or caricature) onto Wilma....n/t

[SoCalDem]

6. More photographic evidence

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. Love the Jesus Rodeo pics!

Glad someone was around to capture those Moments in History! :P

[Whoa_Nelly]

8. Thank Dog for Hanna-Barbera!

Paving the way for all future Creationists! :eyes:

[HereSince1628]

4. She saw them on Xristian tv. "Walking with God's Dinosaurs" or whatever that

Aussie Creationist's show is called.

[Philosoraptor]

7. Alaskasaurus Palin

Or the lip stick lizard.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

11. And this is why on the SNL skit Hillary/Poehler said to ask her (Palin/Fey) about dinosaurs.

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. That, or just because it's a Creationist type question to ask anyway

http://www.creationmuseum.org/



Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs

PETERSBURG, Ky. — The entrance gates here are topped with metallic Stegosauruses. The grounds include a giant tyrannosaur standing amid the trees, and a stone-lined lobby sports varied sauropods. It could be like any other natural history museum, luring families with the promise of immense fossils and dinosaur adventures.

But step a little farther into the entrance hall, and you come upon a pastoral scene undreamt of by any natural history museum. Two prehistoric children play near a burbling waterfall, thoroughly at home in the natural world. Dinosaurs cavort nearby, their animatronic mechanisms turning them into alluring companions, their gaping mouths seeming not threatening, but almost welcoming, as an Apatosaurus munches on leaves a few yards away.

What is this, then? A reproduction of a childhood fantasy in which dinosaurs are friends of inquisitive youngsters? The kind of fantasy that doesn’t care that human beings and these prefossilized thunder-lizards are usually thought to have been separated by millions of years? No, this really is meant to be more like one of those literal dioramas of the traditional natural history museum, an imagining of a real habitat, with plant life and landscape reproduced in meticulous detail.

more
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/arts/24crea.html?_r=1&oref=login

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

13. If this person ever becomes president, I'm calling for the Mother Ship to take me away

and off the planet. This person probably gets her foreign policy ideas from her religion. Scary.