A few leftward nutcases have been throwing around that some Republican in Arizona, while commenting about whether or not to do something that could have an environmental impact, proclaimed the Earth is only 6,000 years old, and since global warming and other environmental issues haven't destroyed the planet yet, it is okay to go ahead with some mining venture that environmentalists claim could further contribute to destroying our delicate planet that humanity seems to be so good at placing at risk.
Finally, one of the liberals sent me a link to the video.
Watching the video, what they, the Leftists, are saying she says is not necessarily what she said. I mean, yes, she says the Earth is 6,000 years old, and it hasn't been destroyed yet, but not in the way the Left is making it out to be.
Liberals are coming at this with the attitude that anyone that doesn't agree with them on a scientific plane is automatically stupid - therefore, anything else the woman says will be stupid as well. Since they are in firm belief that the Earth was conjured up by accident out of nothing millions of years ago, it is impossible that anything else could be true.
I understand that kind of faith, and honestly, it is commendable that these folks can hold on to such a belief with such a small amount of evidence that isn't even verifiable, and in most cases, turns out to be either a hoax, erroneous, or supports the existence of a Creator after all. It isn't called a "theory" for nothing.
If their system of belief was a religion, the way the lefties fanatically hang on to it, it would make them greater religious zealots than the people they claim are radical religious nuts.
Don't worry, leftards, I don't support government taking away your right to practice you religion of Godlessness. I just have a problem with government promoting it as the state religion.
Is the Arizona Senator correct that the Earth is only 6,000 years old? Perhaps. When it comes to Biblical Text, if you add up the years from Adam to Abraham, from Abraham to Jesus, and from Christ to the present, it equals about 6,000 years. If you consider God, according to the Book of Genesis, created the heavens and the Earth in seven days, then 6,000 years for the entire sha-bang seems reasonable.
I love science, and I believe that science should be about pursuing the possibilities, no matter where they may lead you. Today's scientists, however, if they see their studies leading toward the possibility of a Creator, hit the breaks, and turn the corner. However, even with the ideological subjectiveness of being anti-God, in the case of some, often they make reasonable assumptions.
That being said, it is entirely possible that the Earth is 6,000 years old, or millions of years old. If you think logically, considering that a Christian believes God created everything, then that would mean He created time as well. If He created time, and He formed the universe and the Earth before the 24 hour day was established, who's to say those seven days were really seven days? What is a day to God? Besides, if God is omnipotent, then He could have created it all in an instant, or He could have very well decided to set things in motion and allow millions of years to pass as everything became sufficient for life on Earth.
Personally, I wasn't there, so I don't know for sure. But, I'll tell you what, I will be sure to ask the Maker when I get the chance to meet Him.
When the Arizona Senator referred to the Earth still being around after 6,000 years, I think what she was trying to say is since Global Warming is a natural phenomenon, and not a man-made one as the hysterical fear-monger, Al Gore, makes it out to be, then that means the Earth has endured much worse than what we are seeing now. After all, Greenland was once Green, meaning that the global temperatures were much higher at one point than they are now - and guess what? We lived!
Who is to say that warming is a bad thing, anyway? Maybe we have been too cold for centuries, and the planet was adjusting back up a little? Besides, it has been proven we are in a cooling trend, now, so be on the look out for the next big craze (it will be a repeat of 1972): The Next Ice Age Is Coming!
If Global Cooling takes place, will the crazy environmental whackos start suggesting we pump more carbon into the air? Will suddenly government propose that GM start making monster trucks with diesel engines?
Fact is, Volcanoes and the Oceans spew more green house gases than any other contributor (our contribution to green house gases is less than 1%), and with the ups and downs of warming in the last 6,000 years, the Earth has resiliently made it through with simply a few scratches. Mining operations in the middle of the State of Arizona will be nothing in the grand scheme of things.
This is not to say that someone like myself doesn't take keeping the environment clean seriously. If there is gunk in the air, and gunk in the water, we should be good stewards of the planet and clean it up - but this does not mean we should jump off the deep end, and start worshiping the planet, or start freaking out every time somebody slaps a mosquito on their neck, or eats a nice, big, fat juicy steak.
My thought about Arizona? Go ahead and mine, but be reasonable about it.
Oh, and in case you wish to see that video I was talking about? Here it is:
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
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