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

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.​
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.​

If the new speaker believes the earth is only 6,000 years old I would disagree with him

However he has never actually said that

And so far everything else he has said about the Bible is agreeable to me
 
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.​
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.​

“Seem to suggest…..…”

Thats some quality journalism right there, Simp.
 
In the mere hours since Johnson was elected speaker Wednesday, he hadn’t had to address his views on creationism and evolution.
Whaaat?!?!

Hours into his Speakership and no one had asked him the very obvious question that is key to any Speaker of the House's ability to govern: "How old do you thank tha Earth is?"

Maybe they were to busy dreaming up ways to ask about Trump and the 2020 election again.
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.​

So what? The majority of political leaders claim religious beliefs. Religions believe in all kinds of things that are not scientific.

Obama claimed to be a Christian. So he believed that a man was born of a virgin because God made the virgin pregnant, and that man died a horrible death, but rose from the grave and then ascended to heaven.

The Muslims that Democrats love so much take their religion much more seriously than Johnson. They seriously expect to be given seventy virgins after they blow themselves up to kill Jews and Americans.
 

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