What can I add to what Keith Olbermann, Comedy Central, Daily Kos, and Discovery Magazine have already said about it?
Posted by: Donna
By “it” I mean Sen. Sylvia Allen’s jaw-dropping declaration that the Earth is 6000 years old at a Senate hearing where the mining of uranium was debated. Those folks I mentioned have the humor aspect pretty well covered but I do have a couple of observations about it. Quoth Sylvia:
I can’t say enough how it’s time that we get beyond and start focusing on this technology we have and move forward into the future so that our grandchildren can have the same lifestyle we have.
This Earth’s been here 6,000 years — and I know I’m going on and on and I’ll shut up — it’s been here 6,000 years, long before anybody had environmental laws, and somehow it hasn’t been done away with.
We need to get the uranium here in Arizona so this state can get the money from it and the revenues from it. It can be done safely and you’ll never even know the mine was there when they’re done.
So I am for this.
1. That wouldn’t make sense even if the world were only 6000 years old. 6000 years ago we didn’t have cars and interstate highways either, but I don’t see anyone making the serious suggestion that we do away with traffic laws because somehow people weren’t getting killed on the freeway back in Moses’ time.
2. Can you say ‘litmus test’? I knew you could. This is the question that needs to be asked of EVERY Republican seeking election henceforth. “Do you agree with Senator Sylvia Allen that the Earth is around 6000 years old?” Can you also say ‘no win situation’? I knew you could say that too.
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Apparantly Sen Allen cannot see the Grand Canyon from her front porch. How can anyone who lives in AZ not know how long it took to “create” the Grand Canyon. Please find someone to run against her.
You have to be as smart as Sylvia Allen to understand her comment. She is referencing the commonly accepted benchmark of 6,000 years of recorded human history. But, if you don’t know that there are 6,000 years of recorded human history, you think she’s dumb. But, who is really dumb? Someone who doesn’t know enough to understand her comment or Allen who knows her history?
Right falcon9, that’s why she said “the Earth’s been here 6000 years”.