New RW Meme: Fossil Fuels don't come from organic sources. They come from volcanoes.

[Taverner]

My crazy ass dad ran this by me the other day, and I did a double take.

After he left I looked it up, and sure enough, this is how they get around Evolution, Global Warming and pretty much every other scientific discovery since the Enlightenment.

[fascisthunter]

1. they just make shit up and get their brainwashed cult members to repeat the lies.

[Taverner]

2. Pretty much. When Colbert said "Reality has an obvious LW bias"

He wasn't kidding!

[Kennah]

3. Proves the Earth is only 6,000 to 10,000 years old

:sarcasm:

[Motown_Johnny]

31. well ya can't have a process that takes over 150 million years create fossil fuels

not on a planet that is only 6000 years old

[ret5hd]

4. been around for years...i think the russians first proposed it.

i forget the word for it a------- something. the "a" meaning without, and the rest of the word meaning life. maybe it was something like abiogenic.

on edit: and i think it has been pretty well debunked.

[Taverner]

5. Yep - abiogenic. Wasn't it one of Trofim Lysenko's kooky "theories"?

The irony - Conservatives citing Lysenko...

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Yep, that's it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin

[kestrel91316]

7. The scientific illiteracy they are in headlong pursuit of in our public education

means that people will be unable to question this erroneous line of thinking.

They seek an end to science. An end to The Enlightenment. Their goal is for us to be made serfs of the 13th century variety.

[TheKentuckian]

12. This is correct. The fact that many on our side of the aisle are working with them

is not encouraging as they clearly know better and know well the long term aims of the deform movement.

[Sal Minella]

8. So your dad thinks he's burning liquid rock in his car engine??? n/t

[Taverner]

20. Yep. And the irony: this idea was thought up by Lysenko

[NYC_SKP]

9. Jesus Walked With Dinosaurs 200 Years Ago. It's Been Proven by Actual Scientists!

:P

http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/most-popular/1236-scientists-prove-jesus-walked-with-dinosaurs.html


PETERSBURG - Kentucky - A panel of prominent scientists and paleontologists have discovered new groundbreaking evidence that Jesus walked with dinosaurs.

Jesus and his disciples walked with dinosaurs 2000 years ago and the earth and universe are only 10,000 years old.

Independent scientists funded by the Christian Neocon Church of Kentucky have also discovered that Adam and Eve wore fashionable garments given by God. This goes against the grain of the popular belief that they wore leaves over their genitalia in the garden of Eden.

These are just some of the myriad of facts which have now been discovered to be true by the scientists working in tandem with archeologists all over America.

more at link.

:hi:

[AsahinaKimi]

11. Holding a Spielberg version velociraptor

Recent finding have shown they now had feathers. Even their dinosaur images are out dated...

[NYC_SKP]

13. Maybe it was Jesus holding a little un-feathered baby velociraptor?

:hi:

[AsahinaKimi]

18. Well if it was a "Republican" Jesus

He would have PROBABLY pulled all the feathers out.. "Whose up for a BBQ Roasting??!!!"

[Ikonoklast]

19. There is one reason that is fabulously incorrect.

Dinosaurs actually existed at one time, we have verifiable proof of their existence.

The other thing, no direct evidence, just hearsay.

[Wait Wut]

10. I had this discussion last year.

A very good friend of mine, who is unfortunately very conservative (with a heart of gold), told me oil comes from rocks. I asked him if it was then, indeed, possible to get blood from a turnip.

No. He wasn't kidding and even sent me some obscure links.

[Odin2005]

14. "Abiotic Oil" is the favorite woo-woo of RWers who hate environmentalists and LWers who...

...think Peak Oil is a lie to drive up oil prices.

[Taverner]

21. There are LWers who don't believe in peak oil?

[JVS]

15. Why do they do this?

Is this supposed to change public policy, or do they just want to make the heads of everyone who passed 3rd grade science explode?

[valerief]

16. Who needs truth when you can use truthiness?

Teh stupid just gets worse and worse (or worser and worser, as they'd say).

[redqueen]

17. Oh FFS.

Is there nothing so dumb they won't believe it?

Volcanoes? Seriously?

[gratuitous]

22. True enough

But I'm grateful (really) for these threads, because it forewarns me about some of the nitwit assertions I'm about to encounter next year on a church committee. I've found that blinking stupidly with your mouth agape is not an effective response to these ridiculous arguments. Knowing a little about this nonsense beforehand will enable me to have a comment or two in mind.

[Warren DeMontague]

23. Yeah, because fossil fuels implies fossils, and implies that the Earth is > 6000 years old

wack-a-doo stuff.

[opihimoimoi]

24. Comprehension Impaired.....them Facts did not register and input was deleted

[KamaAina]

25. Then why does Booby Jindal want to stop monitoring volcanoes?

After all, they produce his state's chief export. :sarcasm:

[hifiguy]

26. Hunh?? I mean, seriously,

:wtf: How dumb does someone have to be to believe that??? :shrug:

[KamaAina]

27. Which would explain why Hawai'i is awash in the stuff

:sarcasm:

[Johonny]

28. So Christian God hate Muslims and sent him fire and brimstone

the volcanoes created oil, which made Muslims super rich. Thus proving Christian God is stupid. Hmm...

[WinkyDink]

29. How about peat?

[progressoid]

30. Volcanoes? Is this Thetan related?

[ThomWV]

32. does simple chemistry mean nothing to them?

Do they understand what it means to be an "organic source" and what it means to be a "fossil"? Do they understand the basic relationship to the element Carbon to the two?