Courtesy of Raw Story:
A pastor affiliated with the American Family Association has accused religious broadcaster Pat Robertson of “blasphemy” for mocking creationism.
Robertson responded to last week’s debate between Bill Nye, “the Science Guy,” and Creation Museum founder Ken Ham by flatly denouncing the idea that the Earth was only 6,000 years old.
“Let’s be real,” Robertson said on his “700 Club” program. “Let’s not make a joke of ourselves.”
Rev. Mark H. Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League, argued God established all scientific laws, so “good science will always point to Him.” (And yet, so far it has not.)
“That’s why we need not fear there will ever be a discovery of some scientific fact that contradicts the Bible properly interpreted,” Creech wrote in a column published Sunday by Renew America.
Creech said he appreciated that Robertson recognized God’s sovereignty over Earth’s creation, but he said the theory of evolution directly contradicted biblical teachings in at least seven specific ways.
“If Robertson believes that Ham’s literal interpretation of the biblical creation account is a ‘joke,’” the pastor wrote, “then I suggest Robertson’s remarks make him a ham.”
Ham himself responded in a Facebook post last week to Robertson’s remarks, calling the broadcaster “misinformed and deceived.”
“Sad that so many will believe him — who is neither a scientist, nor a Bible scholar rather than open their Bibles and see that evolution and millions of years are totally incompatible with the first 11 chapters of Genesis and rather than think for themselves and check out creationist web sites like Answers in Genesis,” Ham said.
Boy do I love it when Fundamentalists fight among themselves.
And really what can you say about a group of people, for whom Pat Robertson is the voice of reason?
Remember this is the same guy who once accused the country of Haiti of making a deal with the devil and said that feminism leads to witchcraft.
So when somebody like that points out that part of your superstitious belief system makes you look like a joke, that is something that you just might want to take into consideration.
Why did the Founders forge a secular republic? Oh. Yeah. Right.
ReplyDeleteDoes Ken Ham's Creation Museum have a unicorn?
ReplyDelete...a cockatrice?
Get your stories straight, guys, or we'll think you don't know what you're talking about.
ReplyDeleteDrooling goobers gonna drool.
ReplyDeleteIt is perversely gratifying to me to see them eating their own.
ReplyDeleteBeaglemom
So wait... all the thousands of times Robertson has claimed to be reciting actual information spoken directly to him personally by GOD is *not* blasphemy, but pointing out the obvious FACT that creationism makes them look silly to the rest of us *IS*?
ReplyDeleteAm I missing something?
no, but they are... common sense
DeleteOMG. Pat Robertson said something that actually makes sense? The world is upside down.
ReplyDelete“That’s why we need not fear there will ever be a discovery of some scientific fact that contradicts the Bible properly interpreted,”
ReplyDeleteHow about the discovery that the world isn't flat.... a book wrote by ancient people trying to explain the world around them nothing more.
How about the fact that the moon is not a light.
ReplyDeleteAnd here lies the problem - ....."scientific fact that contradicts the Bible properly interpreted"
ReplyDeletePardon my ignorance,but has the Bible EVER been "Properly Interpreted"? And what are the guidelines for "proper interpretation"? The closest I've ever seen is "Life of Brian". Although a fine work of sarcasm, it's very premise is properly interpreting the Bible.
As usual, MrG hits one out of the ballpark with the graphic he chooses. That's Pat Robertson's famous "I hope the Metamucil kicks in soon" pose. I never in my life thought I'd ever agree with the old Grifting Geezer, but he's right this time!!!