Science > Made Up Bullshit

SYDNEY, Australia - Tools dating back at least 35,000 years have been unearthed in a rock shelter in Australia's remote northwest, making it one of the oldest archaeological finds in that part of the country, archaeologists said Monday.

The tools include a piece of flint the size of a small cell phone and hundreds of tiny sharp stones that were used as knives. One local Aboriginal elder saw it as vindication of what his people have said all along — that they have inhabited this land for tens of thousands of years.

Apparently these Aboriginal elders didn't get the memo that mankind only dates back ~6000 years.. and this whole 35,000 year thing is just a giant left wing fraud, the goal of which is to destroy Christianity...

In reality.. our species dates back about 200,000 years.. which is fairly recent in geological time. But 200k is about the emergence of mankind in our current configuration..

If you want a laugh.. the "Creation Museum" slide show, here. Note: This is from students at MIT.. the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.. one of the most prestigious scientific institutions in the world.. which of course makes it the polar opposite of religious nutbaggery. That slide show is actually hosted on the MIT servers.. and I LOL.

You know.. sometimes I get caught up in giving some measure of credibility to people like Douglas V. Gibbs. Doug's stated many times that he's a "Bible literalist" - and when I was on his internet "radio show", I think I laughed out loud when he did his "mankind dates back 6000 years" spiel.. It's hard to debate somebody who starts out the conversation in the scary crazy land of make believe.

Their movement is fundamentally grounded in the most absurd bullshit - and I definitely encourage the brilliant students at MIT to continue highlighting it, and expose these crazy people for what they are.

At some point - our highlighting, and laughing at them will need to stop.. and then we can just ignore them. It won't be as much fun, but then I don't stop to debate the sidewalk preachers with the sandwich signs proclaiming the End is Near.. and they're pretty much all of that mold.

Maybe we can convince them that the end is REALLY near.. like in a couple of months.. and encourage them to sell all their earthly possessions and move into caves to wait out the "End Times"... or "Tribulations".. or whatever the fuck it's called.

That would be awesome..