Sarah Palin on Dinosaurs, Cavemen and Sleestaks
Again, the question arises: Does Sarah Palin believe that dinosaurs lived alongside people?
After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.
Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.
Okay, so this guy is obviously not without political motivation for leaking this information. We don't actually know for certain that she thinks the Flintstones was a reality show.
But we do know that she's an Evangelical Christian. And we do know that she's been blessed free from the insidious evils of witchcraft. And that arguably stupider than that thing with the dinosaurs.
I, personally, am willing to put up with a certain amount of magical thinking in my politicians. I'm willing to accept that Barack Obama and John McCain both believe that Jesus is up there in the sky somewhere pulling sky strings for meaningless, boring stuff in our lives. Or at least that they're okay with letting other people think that's what they believe. (I have my doubts.)
But do we really have to deal with another eight years of having a person in the White House who treats science and reason like it's a Choose Your Own Adventure book?
Why can't we just have regular old ridiculous politicians back?
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They're not stupid. They play stupid. They're mockiing you.
I refuse to believe that one human being can be this stupid. God help us if mccain and palin get elected, we will have a half dead white guy and a stupid woman that believes we come from the land of that lost with a happy ending
This is an importaint part of understanding Sarah Palin is she is a northerner and that her values were influneced by Social Credit possibly the Baptist Pature William Aberhart. This party influenced Alaska Independence Party and dominated in nearby Alberta and British Columbia.
Alberta Social Credit advocated chritian social values and the social cradit philosophy. This philisophy developed by Scottish engineer Clifford Hugh Douglas. This philosophy is that the ecconomic cycle has highs and lows durring the lows trade is ressticted leading to policy until countries go to war which is a type of trade where countries only export and thus get nothing back. Ideally a country should be a net importer then I guess. Douglas' solution was not to manipulate the market but to give everyone an equal amount of money to spend.
Now the social christian message means that social credit conservative support traditonal values including opposition to teen sex and the teaching of traditionalism which is supported by all northern parties founded by pastures both right and left. Former leader of the Reform Party of Canda (sister party to Alaska Independence Party) also belived dinosaurs and humans co-exhisted.
Now that we know Palin support the social views of Social Credit lets get to the eccomics. Alaskas energy rebare is a social credit idea borrowed from Alberta. There are several Social Credit solutions, one is to give every person a set amount of money this money in order to encorage spending, how by having the money expire and requiering a 1 cent stamp to renew it every month(aslo known as funny money) or just give out the money.
The bailout is not distrbuted equally and could be seen as hyraricial but unlike the democrate solution of regulations and restrictions this works on Social Credit principle. Now Palin may advocated funny money in place of a CEO baiout but there is one reason the bailout will work; if you give money to Wall Street, they will sepnd it , which will save the ecconomy. That will be the key message of the VP debate.
iowagradstudent-- you just reduced a complicated/nuanced discussion of faith down to the cheesiest line in Batman Begins......
........ I think I love you. ;)
McGrath: It's also important what kind of religious beliefs they have. Example: At the Saddleback forum, Obama talked about "evil" as an ever-present force in poverty, war, and suffering that we can't defeat but can only struggle against. McCain equated it with Muslim terrorists, and said we had to defeat it. Yay!
Now, I seriously doubt McCain actually believes that; I think he'll say anything to get elected at this point, which is sad. But still - that's a big difference in theology right there! If we go around thinking of our enemies as some apocalyptic embodiment of evil, well, of course we can't negotiate with them! They're the Great Satan! (yes, I use that term with irony)
Oh man... the problem with beliefs, though, is that we don't have mind reading devices to know if you're lying or not. We should judge ppl by their actions, not their creeds. I think Batman put it best: "It's not what's underneath that counts, but what I do that defines me."
Palin thinks Ringo in Caveman should have been nominated for an Oscar.
I like this way of putting it. When politicians have religious beliefs, that shouldn't trouble us: MOST PEOPLE DO.
What should concern us is when an individual appears to be willing to allow religious beliefs to trump reason, evidence, and other such factors.
Religious beliefs may lead us to say things that go beyond what evidence can prove. For instance, if we say we consider human beings as intrinsically valuable, that is a value judgment that no amount of scientific study can prove.
But what we believe should at least be compatible with the evidence and take it into consideration, and that is where ideologies like young-earth creationism fail.
http://exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com/2008/09/blogging-creationism-highlights.html