[meteorite-list] Family Claims Meteorite FellInTheirCourtyardinIndia

From: Mark Bowling <minador_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:53:19 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <315798.34507.qm_at_web50412.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Back to meteorites folks... No politics please...

Just found a 9 grammer by the way...!!! It's a few hours old by my dating.

Mark Bowling
Vail, AZ

--- Jason Utas <meteoritekid at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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-----
> > From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> > [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of
> > info at niger-meteorite-recon.de
> > Sent: 09 August 2007 16:35
> > 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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