As if there is any doubt posed by the question “Are we slouching towards Idiocracy?” what else can a sane person conclude when confronted with headlines like “Conservatives Split Over Oppposition to Anti-Obesity Campaign” (WHO would be PRO-obesity aside from a politically astute moron like Sarah Palin? Surely the morbidly obese must make up a large percentage of her supporters) and “Kentucky Creationist Museum to Feature Dragons, Unicorns.”

Aside from a similar accident of birth on the North American land mass, I don’t perceive myself as having ANYTHING in common with someone who believes that dinosaurs and unicorns were on Noah’s fucking Ark (or Sarah Palin supporters for that matter)! Do you? Where is the commonality when IQs have become this stratified? And where is this mess headed when the stupidest people in the country are the only ones reliably voting? It’s really getting frustrating to read the news these days. I feel like there is a new low reached almost daily. The dumbness used to be a little more spread out.

Truly, it’s undeniable at this juncture that “the dumbs” are really starting to take over and if these shit-for-brains types are allowed to continue dominating the conversation, then all bets are off for the future of the American republic. I can’t help but to feel we’re about to reach a tipping point towards some serious bad craziness. If you can convince a man that dinosaurs and unicorns were on Noah’s Ark, you can convince this man of ANY darned thing (like millionaires and billionaires pay too much in taxes or that Sarah Palin is qualified to be president).

Reblogging this from Barefoot and Progressive:

I asked Answers in Genesis if there will be dinosaurs on their Ark. They said yes.

I’ve since asked if there will be fire-breathing dragons on their Ark.

My visit to the Creation Museum last week told me that the answer is a strong “probably so.” Digging through the AiG archives this morning, I now see that Ken Ham says the answer is an emphatic “yes”:

Being land animals, dinosaurs (or dragons of the land) were created on Day Six (Genesis 1:24–31), went aboard Noah’s Ark (Genesis 6:20), and then came off the Ark into the post-Flood world (Genesis 8:16–19). It makes sense that many cultures would have seen these creatures from time to time before they died out.

There will be dragons on their Ark. [What about Godzilla or Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster? Will non-American “dragons of the land” be considered for inclusion?—RM]

But here’s one more question for you: Will there be unicorns on the Ark?

According to Ken Ham and AiG, the answer is yes.

“Some people claim the Bible is a book of fairy tales because it mentions unicorns. However, the biblical unicorn was a real animal, not an imaginary creature.”

“Modern readers have trouble with the Bible’s unicorns because we forget that a single-horned feature is not uncommon on God’s menu for animal design. (Consider the rhinoceros and narwhal.) The Bible describes unicorns skipping like calves (Psalm 29:6), traveling like bullocks, and bleeding when they die (Isaiah 34:7). The presence of a very strong horn on this powerful, independent-minded creature is intended to make readers think of strength.”

“The absence of a unicorn in the modern world should not cause us to doubt its past existence. (Think of the dodo bird. It does not exist today, but we do not doubt that it existed in the past.). Eighteenth century reports from southern Africa described rock drawings and eyewitness accounts of fierce, single-horned, equine-like animals. One such report describes “a single horn, directly in front, about as long as one’s arm, and at the base about as thick . . . . [It] had a sharp point; it was not attached to the bone of the forehead, but fixed only in the skin.”

“To think of the biblical unicorn as a fantasy animal is to demean God’s Word, which is true in every detail.”

There will be unicorns on the Ark. So this is what we’re left with:

Thanks to [Governor] Steve Beshear, Kentucky is no longer just known as the state whose governor endorsed and gave $40 million in tax breaks to people who want to tell children that science and history explain that a 600 year old man herded dinosaurs onto a big boat 4,000 years ago.

No, Kentucky will now be known as the state whose governor endorsed and gave $40 million in tax breaks to people who want to tell children that science and history explain that a 600-year-old man herded dinosaurs, fire-breathing dragons and unicorns onto a big boat 4,000 years ago.

But Steve Beshear wasn’t elected to debate religion, he was elected to create jobs…

Ouch! I just want to pull the covers over my head when I read something like this, don’t you? Obviously, requesting a unicorn chaser would not really be appropriate here…
 

 
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Ha ha! Letting a fire breathing animal onto your wooden ship would be pretty stoopid! Oh, wait…

is god geografhical. is the location of your birth the biggest determining factor of your belief. (is there only one way to get to my father and that is through me his son jesus christ) i’m very interested in the idea that god is all.

The people behind institutions such as the Creation Museum are no more “stupid” than the predatory financial hucksters who come up with the various “instruments” they then proceed to sell to morons dumb enough to “invest in debt.”

I may consider them hucksters and hate them for their greed, but I don’t for a minute underestimate their coldly calculated motivations. These people are tapping into a vast market of stupidity, one which has proven itself again and again in recent history. I’m disturbed that such a deep (snicker!) well has yet to run dry.

Thought I’d just put up some refrences to the Bible verses mentioned here. I’d like to point out that I’m using New International Version.

I’m going to not include the bits about Genesis, but to put it simply they never actually mention dinosaurs, just creatures that walk on land. I also think that there would not be enough room for all the dinosaurs on the ark, not including elephants and horses and cows. I should also point out that the account says Noah took on seven pairs of every clean animal with him, though how he did that without the Torah I have no idea.

Anyways, on to the bits about the Unicorns, I would like to throw my head back and scream. The Psalms and Isaiah are essentially poems, and thus should not be taken as a paper on zoology. Anyways, here are the verses in question.

Psalm 29:6 - He makes Lebanon skip like a calf
Sirion like a young wild ox.

I’m pretty sure the young wild ox is supposed to be the alleged unicorn. Some translations say unicorn. Mine dosen’t. Either way, they focus of the psalm is not unicorns.

Isaiah 34:7: And the wild oxen fall with them,
the bull calves and the great bulls.
Their land will be drenched with blood,
and the dust will be soaked with fat.

I’m not going to bother putting any more energy in this because unlike the people who put forth this argument I actually know how to read the Bible. Isaiah is not about unicorns, it is about the fact God is seriously pissed at the Israelites whoring themselves out to other Gods. The wild ox bit is a metaphor.

And honestly, I don’t know why I’m going into this rant on here. The vast majority of the readers here are not Christian, and even the reader is Christian they are like me and believe that this whole thing is idiotic. I need to start a blog.

Where in the Bible, ANYWHERE, does it say that a single word is true?  I read the bible and it didn’t try to hard to convince me it was the truth.

I feel like you’re sort of missing the point here. Anyone who believes that there was literally a giant boat that carried every type of animal in the world is, ipso facto, a moron, regardless of details such as what those animals were.

thanks Richard for posting all these wonderful links…we aren’t slouching towards idiocracy, we’re sitting smack dab in the middle of the Goastse hole of it.

Humorous anecdote: my son’s 12 grade social studies class watched ‘Idiocracy’ and the majority ‘didn’t get it’ or found the subject matter insulting. My son thought their reaction was much funnier than the movie itself.

I know people who are home schooling and feeding their children these lies and it makes me sick! The children are theirs to raise though, so I’m always at a loss as to what to say. I can’t bring myself to tell the child that her parents are feeding her lies. She is 12. Yet is is so ridiculous. I am baffled. As an aside, the mother is obese.

You’re absolutely right!  Just as much bullshit as the global warming crap that’s being eaten up by all the dumbass liberals!  Guess we all have our little lies to live by.

While I think belief in the Bible is idiotic, it is a mistake to call believers “morons”. A more accurate term would be “brainwashed.” Case in point: my sister is a fundamentalist with a doctorate in neuropharmacology ( a field I can’t even spell correctly!) She studied the effect of drugs on the brain. Her husband is a medical doctor. One of her kids is an author/reporter and another is a mathematical wizard. They are all fundamentalists, yet in every other aspect of their lives, they are incredibly intelligent people. I find this pretty frightening. As the film makers of “Jesus Camp” said, “Faith trumps everything.” Sigh.

The “obesity” thing is a “freedom issue” with conservatives: the nanny-state liberals are trying to take away our freedom to eat lousy food.  Of course, they don’t have any “freedom” issues with banning cannabis/hemp or assisted suicide. . . so. . . ?

The Noah’s Ark story is so full of holes it will never float (sorry) without also invoking “God’s magic” as the wild card:

1. Two of every animal would never fit on a boat that size, even if they were infants.  You also couldn’t hold enough food to feed them on a boat that size, nor were there enough deck hands in Noah’s family to clean all the poop every day for 40 days.

2. Once the flood is over and you let them all go, the carnivores would immediately decimate the herbivores; a lion only needs to eat ONE gazelle to end that species forever.

If you’re going to invoke “God” to explain away these problems, why even have an ark story?  Obviously it’s all a metaphor, a moral lesson, and the weak minded Christians NEED it to be 100% true or else they will backslide into sin and debauchery.  Atheists don’t need an ancient morality play to help them be moral.  But I don’t hold it against them, it’s a handicap: they need that crutch, I just wish they weren’t forcing the rest of us to use crutches also.

I once attended a creation seminar in San Antonio. much like this one, it was full of backwards ideas. I got removed by security for laughing too loud.