How do we drill for fossil fuels if the earth is only 6000 years old?

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

:shrug: :wtf:

[Tesla]

1. They like to have it both ways

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Gawd put that stuff right in the ground 6,000 years ago.

[old mark]

9. When he planned for us to make cars, and have a lot of

pollution. It's all part of God's Plan - Relax!
(joke)
mark

[goddess40]

12. and he's going to refill it (scary that some really believe that)

some idiot told my hubby that when we were buying our first Prius in '02. He was serious as a heart attack, what a loser. People are allowed their religious beliefs but this crosses over into the "you can have your opinion but not your own facts" category.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

13. THAT can't be true...

please tell me you are kidding. That is insane.

[goddess40]

19. It's all too true, the guy really believes it

quite convenient so people like this can do what they damn well please because their god is also their nursemaid and will clean up after them. It's their license to be wasteful self indulgent jerks.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. The immense pressure of the water in Noah's flood mashed the drowned dinosaurs into oil and coal

Sheesh! Who doesn't know that?

[nc4bo]

4. Just thought of a great new oil company name: Nature's Harvest :S nt

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

5. Let's say it together: You Cannot Reason A Person Out Of A Position She Didn't Reason Herself Into

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

7. But that doesn't mean this nonsense shouldn't be challenged publicly. nt

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

8. Goodness! Not counseling against raising the question at all.

Sorry to have been ambiguous. Just noting that the question in the OP is logical, but that Palin wouldn't see it as a logical contradiction because her stance is admittedly irrational. (Christianity admits up front it is non-rational, which is the point of faith.

I used to argue with my fundie relatives before realizing the degree to which the very mode of argument is alien to their world-view.

I applaud the OP's question, and such questions have turned around many folks in the middle who just haven't given these things much thought.

But if Sarah Palin herself was asked the question she would say, "because" and consider it a valid argument.

When the true belieivers speak in the mode of argument they are doing it only to humor us heathens... 'when in Rome' so to speak.

[OwnedByFerrets]

15. That is a GREAT line. I will have to try to remember it.

[Motown_Johnny]

6. God wants us to have oil and coal power, so he put that shit in the ground for us

and he does not want us to use clean power, so he made a really stupid political party too

[usregimechange]

10. Did Palin say she was a young earthy?

[Motown_Johnny]

16. reported to be a Creationist

[renie408]

18. You can be a creationist and not believe in a young earth. n/t

[Coexist]

11. My God is an awesome God??

[bunnies]

14. then God said "Let there be OIL".... and there was oil.

mystery solved. :banghead:

[Jennicut]

17. Oil was an act of God! Oh yes, praise Jesus!!!!

Seriously, do they even realize how funny this all is re Palin's love of drilling and her creationism? Do they realize it takes million of years for the Earth to form oil? I am a Lutheran, I go to church, my husband is the freakin organ player for our Lutheran church on the weekends, my girls go to sunday school. I am a religious person if there ever was one. However, this insults my intelligence. Drilling won't equal our consumption and the earth is 4.5 billion years old and may be discovered to be even older. They want their oil, pay respect to science then.