[meteorite-list] Family Claims Meteorite FellInTheirCourtyardinIndia

From: Jason Utas <meteoritekid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:33:06 -0700
Message-ID: <93aaac890708091333p6e01e678mcbddda2dc11a6d31_at_mail.gmail.com>

And speaking as an American, when half of this country not only
believe in god, but actually believe that the earth was created
between four and eight thousand years ago by their deity, that the
biblical flood truly happened, and that judgement day is approaching,
I think you, Chris, have great insight into the cultural and
superstition-related oddities or India and Russia. Even having been
taught how radioisotopic dating works, a goodly portion of the
fundamentalists that I've talked to here still believe the earth to be
a mere few thousand years old, and I believe that the general excuse
for how fossils exist is that they're everything that was living
before the flood and much of the sediment on earth became churned up
at the time by currents, giving us the distribution of fossils that we
see in the ground today.
If you want an all-American explanation for how meteorites have come
to exist, look no farther than this link:

http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/Asteroids2.html

and

http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/Comets2.html

- or maybe here, with regard to how the Grand Canyon came into being:

http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/GrandCanyon2.html

Russia and India? Sorry, Chris, but with our country being one of the
only technologically and financially advanced countries to still
debate whether or not abortion should be legal (just about every other
wealthy western country agrees that it's a woman's right to choose),
not to mention the fact that our chief executive doesn't believe he's
in charge, because he "only take[s] orders from a higher power."

How about a nice, rational, quote from our president, eh?


"I feel like God wants me to run for President. I can't explain it,
but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to
happen... I know it won't be easy on me or my family, but God wants me
to do it."
--George W. Bush commenting to Texas evangelist James Robinson in the
run-up to his presidential campaign


I'll leave off with this wonderful quote by one of our country's
finest representatives.


"Two things made this country great: White men & Christianity. The
degree these two have diminished is in direct proportion to the
corruption and fall of the nation. Every problem that has arisen (sic)
can be directly traced back to our departure from God's Law and the
disenfranchisement of White men."
--State Rep. Don Davis (R-NC), emailed to every member of the North
Carolina House and Senate, reported by the Fayetteville Observer,
08-22-01

Right. Need I say more?

We're just as backwards and superstitious as the next country, and
don't you forget it ;)

Jason



On 8/9/07, mark ford <markf at ssl.gb.com> wrote:
>
> >> half the population believes the earth is less than 10000 years old
>
> ... Well here in Britain, half the population don't even care how old
> the earth is at all, let alone believe an actual date!! Lol :)
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> info at niger-meteorite-recon.de
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> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Family Claims Meteorite
> FellInTheirCourtyardinIndia
>
> Chris wrote:
>
> " I think there are certain countries that are much more
> likely to embrace bad science or pseudoscience (India and Russia come
> immediately to mind)."
>
> You mean like countries where creationist theme parks attract the crowds
> and where nearly half the population believes the earth is less than
> 10000 years old?
>
> I say there is no reason to look down on India or Russia in this regard.
>
> Svend
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