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Related: About this forumRepublican Congressman: Science Is ‘All Lies From The Pit Of Hell!’
There are days I despair for the human race. This is certainly one of them. Last month, Rep. Paul Broun (R-Moron) gave a speech denouncing science as Satans work to undermine Christianity. Seriously.
Via TPM:
This man sits on the House Science Committee. Thats like letting a 5-year-old write the budget. Or Paul Ryan. Such profound, and deliberate, ignorance of basic education should disqualify Broun from having anything to do with policy making, much less science policy. This isnt controversial stuff like When does a fertilized egg become a person? Theres a debate to be had there. This isnt a question about something fundamentally unanswerable like what happens after we die. This is hard, proven and not that difficult to understand facts that Broun is childishly rejecting because he (mistakenly) thinks that it means he cant worship Jesus.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/05/republican-science-is-all-lies/
Via TPM:
All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell, Broun said. And its lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.
According to Broun, the scientific plot was primarily concerned with hiding the true age of the Earth. Broun serves on the House Science Committee, which came under scrutiny recently after another one of its Republican members, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), suggested that victims of legitimate rape have unnamed biological defenses against pregnancy.
You see, there are a lot of scientific data that Ive found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth, he said. I dont believe that the Earths but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. Thats what the Bible says.
This man sits on the House Science Committee. Thats like letting a 5-year-old write the budget. Or Paul Ryan. Such profound, and deliberate, ignorance of basic education should disqualify Broun from having anything to do with policy making, much less science policy. This isnt controversial stuff like When does a fertilized egg become a person? Theres a debate to be had there. This isnt a question about something fundamentally unanswerable like what happens after we die. This is hard, proven and not that difficult to understand facts that Broun is childishly rejecting because he (mistakenly) thinks that it means he cant worship Jesus.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/05/republican-science-is-all-lies/
Just a vocal minority? Also sounds like he is using his "other ways of knowing".
Come on, folks, it's TIME to have the conversation about where our beliefs end and reality begins. Science is, so far, the only way to determine just where reality begins. Religion speculates on what may be, but is limited in creating actual knowledge because it's merely just speculation. We know what we know is real and true for all of us through scientific inquiry. It's time to pull Religion from its place on the top shelf of society and allow science the room to move us forward in learning and understanding the world we actually exist in. And the only way to do that is by marginalizing yahoos like Paul Broun, and we can only do that by admitting that religion is just not explaining reality like we thought it once did.
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Republican Congressman: Science Is ‘All Lies From The Pit Of Hell!’ (Original Post)
cleanhippie
Oct 2012
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. RELIGIOUS IDIOT
CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)2. But the science that brings you medical care & high speed internet porn is ok, isn't it?