Before Sarah Palin, there was "the Dino Pastor"
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Before Sarah Palin, there was "the Dino Pastor"
The road to the White House, 2012, has to begin somewhere, and for me that road is Route 611 in Plumsteadville. The combination of "Sarah Palin" and "Plumstead Christian School" was just too much to resist -- a chance to see if for all the hype about the Tea Party, the real route to the Oval Office still passes through evangelical voters. So that is where I'll be tomorrow night.
That said, Palin may not be the most interesting speaker in the history of the Plumstead Christian School. That honor might remain with the Rev. Paul Veit, the so-called "Dino Pastor," who came to Plumsteadville in October 2008 to tear down the myth of evolution. (From the Bucks County Courier-Times, via Nexis):
For the Dino Pastor, fossil findings over the past few decades that were hailed as the missing links in the evolution of man are flawed with missing bones and faulty suppositions. He says that the artist renderings of what these creatures would look like are not supported by the findings.
"Skip the artwork and look at the bones," Veit said.
The minister said that the Great Flood chronicled in the Book of Genesis is revealed in many mass dinosaur graveyards, pointing to discoveries that show thousands of fossils facing in the same direction as if they were covered with a cataclysmic flow of sediment.
"The Grand Canyon is the loudest screaming graveyard," he said. "It says God doesn't fool around when he deals with sinners."
Even I'm not going to to wade too deep into the great evolution/creation debate, except in this particular case I have to say, whaaaa? Uh, just who exactly were these sinners whom God decided to smite, or smote, or whatever, and what in God's name were they doing in the Grand Canyon millions of years ago? Is the "Dino Pastor" claiming there are human fossils in the Grand Canyon, or are the sinners that we're talking about "crinoids, brachiopods, and sponges"? If so, what kind of sins do brachiopods commit?
Hopefully, Palin -- who did her best to foist the evolution-denying Christine O'Donnell on the people of Delaware and America -- can explain it all tomorrow night.
I'll be there!
You're a braver man than I am, Will Bunch--heading into that clear den of iniquity. Don't be fooled if they have a piece of the real Arc (either Noah's or the one found by Indiana Jones).
This ought to make Will's head explode!!— georgel
Sorry, just read your article and saw you used my name, so had to comment - I find it funny/hypocritical that creationists bask in everything that modern technology affords them. Yet when the same arena produces something contrary to their world view - they deny it. Science is not perfect, but the scientific method and peer reviewed studies allow me to live in unimaginable luxury. Religion makes me take my shows off at the airport.— Whaaaa?- *shoes at the airport (man, I almost sounded quotable)— Whaaaa?
- ===]]] "The Grand Canyon is the loudest screaming graveyard," he said. "It says God doesn't fool around when he deals with sinners." [[[===
No doubt, God was punishing all those day dinosaurs when he carved out the Grand Canyon. Oh, and gay trilobites.
Is it just me, or are there even more wack-jobs in the Republican Party than there used to be?— Talking point sleuth - Too funny:
--snip-- WASHINGTON — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is raising his national political profile as a government cost-cutter, engaged in a pattern of abuse when he was U.S. attorney by billing taxpayers to stay at luxury hotels, the Justice Department's inspector general said in a report Monday.
The inspector general found that the Republican governor, who recently killed the construction of a new rail line to New York under the Hudson River, did not comply with federal travel regulations or provide acceptable justification for lodging costs that exceeded the government rate. --snip--
Proving once again, our beloved Attytood Republican toadies don't have are being exploited because of their "unthinking" herd-like mentality.— Talking point sleuth - It gets even better:
--snip-- Christie's press secretary, Michael Drewniak, said Monday that "the governor thoroughly addressed this issue during the campaign, and I would refer you to his remarks then."
During the campaign, Christie said he stayed in more expensive hotels only when cheaper ones weren't available....
...in one instance related to the case, the inspector general wrote, the U.S. attorney traveled to Boston for meetings with representatives of a defendant company at the Nine Zero Hotel at a cost of $449 per night — more than double the government rate of $220 per night in Boston. --snip--
Right. I'm sure there were no rooms available for less than $449 per night.
Hilarious.— Talking point sleuth 
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Sin is its own punishment.- Will--See if you can get some good quotes on whether the Neanderthals had speech. All of us who have non-African ancestors are up to 4% Neanderthal, genetically speaking. Did some people mate with creatures that couldn't talk? There's a guy on my block who might do that type of thing.
Sounds like the Dino Pastor would fit in well with the man-made global warming types.— jmc- You libs are just too funny, you believe you evolved from a gob of goo. That evolved into a monkey, that became you? REALLY? Where's the evidence to support that theory? It takes more faith to believe that, than to believe in a Supreme Being and Creator.— truth B told
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