Posted by
Darrick Johnson on Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:00:00 AM
ABC’s Nightline ran a story on Wednesday night about Creationist tours of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. I happened to attend one of these tours as a 2
nd grader, so my interest was piqued. As expected, the Christian tour guides were mocked for not believing or respecting “Science”. To drive home the mockery, Nightline pointed out that the tour guides believed the biblical account that 7 or 8 generations of humans before the flood lived for 800 years on average. But, crowed Terry Moran, “they believe this period was approximately one thousand years.” Then came the chalkboard graphic showing that 7 times 800 would be 5600 years. I nearly fell out my chair. What a sad collection of 800 year olds, struggling 780 years to have children, only to die seconds after they succeed, then repeating this horrid luck for 8 generations. Does Mr. Moran have living parents, grandparents, or children? Terry Moran has probably interacted with grandparents, parents, siblings, and children.. Since the average lifespan is around 80, that means that Terry Moran is 320 years old. Either that, or his assumptions were a bit off. You decide.
Not content with that gem, Nightline weighed into the Iraq War, whining that a recent poll shows that fewer than half of Iraqis are glad that we invaded. Even as awful as Barack Obama’s pastor tells us that America is, creating virus, selling drugs, and whatnot, would more than 10% of Americans be glad we were invaded by a foreign power? Even an invasion by docile Canadians would be greeted with extreme resentment. War is terrible, and being invaded by outsiders is surely unpleasant and irritating at best. If 45% of Iraqis think that all that suffering is worthwhile, it’s pretty certain that we were in the right. Keep in mind, 20% of Iraqi’s where on the dole from Saddam’s kleptocracy, so they probably aren’t going to join the war supporters in the near future. Of the 80% of Iraqis who could be persuaded (thieves and murdurers don’t typically celebrate falling crime rates), somewhere around 60% are glad the United States invaded their country. As Ronaldus Magnus would say, “Not bad, Not bad at all.”