Oh, Uncle Pat. You’ve hoisted yourself on your own petard again, haven’t you? In suggesting that Christians should believe geologists when they talk about stuff that happened three hundred million years ago, but not what scientists say about the origin of life “because they weren’t there”, you’re making the biggest argument from ignorance there is, and undercutting yourself in the very same breath.
But you’re so steeped in your religion you don’t even recognize that blatant failure. Not even when there isn’t adequate punctuation between your thoughts. It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
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OverlappingMagisteria
April 26, 2012 at 9:15 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Hmmm.. Either you accidentally posted a video of some cheap old horror movie instead of Pat Robertson or there’s a joke I’m missing.
Is Pat Robertson the Octoman? Run for your lives!
Jason Thibeault
April 26, 2012 at 9:54 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Ahaha! Whoops, sorry for the Octaroll. Fixed now.
Him being the Octaman would make a hell of a lot of sense, though.
Achrachno
April 26, 2012 at 10:37 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
We don’t want our religious theory go with flat earth … just because that’s what our religious text says.
Donald Zepp
April 26, 2012 at 11:05 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Pat Robertson no longer scares me: he is but a doddering old fool, incapable of critical thought at this point. What really scares me is the talking head going “um-hum” each time he makes some stupid pronouncement–you’d think she’d at least still have some functioning brain cells.
I do confess, however, to be amused by the notion that one should reject the ideas of “they [who] weren’t there when it happened.” Seems to me the religion ol’ Pat espouses is based entirely on the testimony of those who weren’t there “when it happened,” giving plenty of reason to suspect it never did.
The Lorax
April 26, 2012 at 11:24 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
“The earth is 6,000 years old, because my religion says so.
It’s okay to believe archeologists about stuff that’s 300 million years old.
But it’s not okay to believe them about stuff that’s 4.5 billion years old, because my religion says so.”
Wha..?
Zinc Avenger
April 26, 2012 at 11:40 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
*Pat turns off camera* “I thought I told you to put some unrelated rambling in the script between those claims!”
Paul Hunter
April 26, 2012 at 12:36 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
300,000,000 is OK just stay away from “The Beginning!”
patricksimons
April 26, 2012 at 4:19 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Evidently, mad cow disease isn’t limited to cattle.
Usernames are stupid
April 27, 2012 at 12:58 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
According to AIG, Pat isn’t a young earther, so it is possible that he would be open to a 4.5 billion-year-old earth, which would jibe with his “geologist” remark.
Maybe he trusts Geology because rocks don’t normally move on their own and you can touch them, taste them, etc, whereas fossils represent scary extinct creatures who laid their eggs in the boiling waters, only to be gobbled up every three minutes by the giant sea orphans and jungle bunnies, which scared everybody.