Pat Robertson has explicitly derided the belief that the Earth is only 6,000 years old as false.
Look, I know that people will probably try to lynch me when I say this, but Bishop Ussher wasn't inspired by the Lord when he said that it all took 6,000 years. It just didn't. You go back in time, you've got radiocarbon dating. You got all these things and you've got the carcasses of dinosaurs frozen in time out in the Dakotas.
If anyone is qualified to speak on the topic of dinosaurs, this old fossil sure is. Listening to the tape, leaves little doubt Robertson has fond memories of riding his dinosaur, Susie, to school. He never mentions what type of dinosaur she was, but I bet the cool kids all ran around on Velociraptors while the nerds lumbered along on Phosphatheriums they borrowed from Neanderthals. Good times.... But, hey, don't take my (written) word for it. Let's go to the tape:
Time to cue the chorus of clucking clergy ready to ridicule Robertson as they cynically suggest he has slid into senility. I don't know what exactly this marks the end of (Robertson's career? The GOP's embrace of anti-intellectualism? Huckabee's viability?) but whatever it is, you may as well get the popcorn ready, because you know this isn't going to end quietly :)
1:42 PM PT: We're talking a potential struggle for the GOP soul of Biblical proportions!
(h/t to Crashing Vor for digging up the proper citation :) )
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