Or God/dess help us this poster is probably not only registered to vote but does. I don't know if this person just slept through science class or was homeschooled with workbooks that featured Adam and Eve and the dinosaurs. And yes these do exist. Or at least they did about twenty years ago because I saw them in a Portland "Christian" bookstore while my sister was picking up more Christmas decorations.
Well I was planning to post about Quaker ideas on liberty and then The Politburo of Teabilly Mockery posted this little gem. This is why we can't have nice things. The Bible is not a science text book. Most of it was written almost two thousand years or more ago when a good many of our fellow humans believed the earth revolved around the sun. Those that bothered to think about it all. Matthew was, so it is said, a reformed tax collector. Peter was a fisherman. Paul was a tentmaker.
We didn't "lose" the tech to go back to the moon, we just have to reinvent the wheel so to speak. And decide to spend the cash to do it. There is a great line in Apollo 13 when Jim Lovell is taking a tour group through. "A computer that fits in a room" imagine that. I probably have more computing ability in my phone than the Houston Space Center had to follow the Apollo missions. Catch the movie if you have the chance. Slide rules, computer monitors, smoking in the room, coffee. Lots and lots of coffee.
Those shots of the earth from the moon were not composites they were taken by at least one astronaut with his very own camera. Oh and this should really blow his tiny little mind. Voyager I "woke up" and fired it's thrusters ot make a tine course change. Forty years old and more than a billion miles away from home. That blows my mind.
I've known about this mindset for years but I simply cannot imagine living in a universe where you believe that just about everything is a trick of the devil or that the tiny little god you follow has filled your world with deceptions to test your so called faith. Is it fear that keeps your mnd and imagination in a straight jacket?
Do I sound cranky this morning. Damn straight.
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