Our New Speaker Thinks the Earth is 6,000 Years Old

[berg80]

How about the climate change wackos?

Wait...........did you just compare the wackadoodle belief the Earth is 6K years old with those who accept the overwhelming scientific evidence of man made climate change?

 

[Blaster]

Repubs had the votes to keep McCarthy as Speaker if they so desired.

Democrats also voted him out despite McCarthy trying to find bipartisan solutions.

 

[berg80]

Democrats also voted him out despite McCarthy trying to find bipartisan solutions.

If you want to learn why Dems did not support Kevin, Google it. Or remain ignorant on the subject. Your choice.

 

[Blaster]

If you want to learn why Dems did not support Kevin, Google it. Or remain ignorant on the subject. Your choice.

Pelosi told McCarthy she would support him but then voted him out.

 

[lg325]

He seems like an Okay fellow. Being one of the Born Again Christian folks I can say those advocating the 6000-year-old earth do not reflect the views of the majority of those who study scripture. Those who do advocate it are doing what we are taught not to do and that is ''speculate'' on scripture. I do not agree with a lot of the Science information on Earths history either I find a lot it is also ''speculation''.

 

[Blaster]

Democrats don't like Johnson but only have themselves to blame by not supporting McCarthy.

 

[1srelluc]

While I might not hold that view myself does it really matter in the grand scheme of things?

 

[Polishprince]

New Speaker Mike Johnson says the way to learn how feels about any issue is to read the Bible: 'That's my worldview, that's what I believe'​

New Speaker Mike Johnson says the way to learn how feels about any issue is to read the Bible: 'That's my worldview, that's what I believe'

Johnson's personal strong religious faith and ties to Christian-affiliated organizations are well-documented.

www.businessinsider.com

I know, I know. "Fake news".

Interesting. So from your point of view, believing and taking the Bible seriously is a sure sign of a "theocrat"?

 

[pknopp]

New Speaker Mike Johnson says the way to learn how feels about any issue is to read the Bible: 'That's my worldview, that's what I believe'​

New Speaker Mike Johnson says the way to learn how feels about any issue is to read the Bible: 'That's my worldview, that's what I believe'

Johnson's personal strong religious faith and ties to Christian-affiliated organizations are well-documented.

www.businessinsider.com

I know, I know. "Fake news".

I doubt it is what he believes.

“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:33-34

 

[pknopp]

Wait...........did you just compare the wackadoodle belief the Earth is 6K years old with those who accept the overwhelming scientific evidence of man made climate change?

Some of their ideas are as wack as is the young Earth believers.

 

[berg80]

Pelosi told McCarthy she would support him but then voted him out.

Pelosi was in SF when the vote was taken.

 

[Blaster]

Pelosi was in SF when the vote was taken.

Then she lied to McCarthy.

 

[petro]

At least he isn't Pelosi.
She is about 6,000 years old.

 

[odanny]

Wait...........did you just compare the wackadoodle belief the Earth is 6K years old with those who accept the overwhelming scientific evidence of man made climate change?

He did, and he likes to compare superstition to science, as many of the Trump cult does.

 

[rightwinger]

Repubs had the votes to keep McCarthy as Speaker if they so desired. The Crazy 8 are the reason he was sacked and the MAGAnuts are the reason we now have a raging evangelical running the House. Until he does something Trump doesn't like that is.

Would Republicans have rallied to save Pelosi?

 

[Mashmont]

Well, this is reassuring.

The new Speaker appears to believe that the Earth is 6,000 years old.

Before arriving in Washington less than a decade ago, House Speaker Mike Johnson, a deeply religious Christian, was a legal crusader associated with a fringe evangelical movement called “young Earth creationism,” based on a literal reading of the Bible’s Book of Genesis that posits the Earth is only several thousand years old.​

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In the mere hours since Johnson was elected speaker Wednesday, he hadn’t had to address his views on creationism and evolution. But his close ties to a leader of the creationist movement and his past legal work — on behalf of the Ark Encounter creationist theme park, where children can learn that dinosaurs were passengers on Noah’s Ark — seem to suggest that he’s also personally aligned with these beliefs.​

“The Ark Encounter is one way to bring people to this recognition of the truth, that what we read in the Bible are actual historical events,” Johnson said in a 2021 interview with Ark Encounter founder Ken Ham while guest-hosting the radio showof Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, an evangelical activist group.​

New House Speaker Thinks Creationist Museum Is 'Pointing People To The Truth'

An ark replica with dinosaurs "is one way to bring people to this recognition ... that what we read in the Bible are actual historical events,” Mike Johnson said.

www.huffpost.com

That's OK. Pelosi believes sea levels will rise feet in the next 30 years. Which sounds nuttier?

 

[berg80]

Then she lied to McCarthy.

She did nothing of the sort. She was there because Feinstein had just died. And she knew her vote would be of no consequence. BTW, please provide proof of her promise.

 

[pknopp]

That's OK. Pelosi believes sea levels will rise feet in the next 30 years. Which sounds nuttier?

Really a nutty that one shouldn't try to defend either way.

 

[Mashmont]

He did, and he likes to compare superstition to science, as many of the Trump cult does.

Toddlers and leftwing atheists have much in common. To them, if something isn't within two feet of their faces, it doesn't exist.

 

[DGS49]

Actually, the "young earth" belief is no less preposterous than believing the Evolution Theory explanation of the origins of life on earth and the multiplicity of species on earth. Both are nonsense, but one carries the appearance of "science."

And unless the OP can find a quote from the new Speaker on the subject, it should STFU on the subject.