Pentecostals take idiocy to new heights

There are a few ways to gain and support a believe. A good way is by following where the evidence takes you. Other ways, which are poor, unreliable, or just downright silly, are through tradition, authority, or revelation. Believing something just because your ancestors believed it might be useful for the developmentally-challenged or the lazy, as would be believing something just because someone told you to believe, or because someone sat and thought about something until a special feeling came over them. This is not the pathway to truth. This is why I can't understand what an evangelical Pentacostal follower is doing in a museum in the first place. Someone take a wrong turn?

New rule - you are free to enjoy your self-imposed idiocy and demonstrate just how little you know or care about science by saying things such as "only a theory", but when you get sick, you're not allowed to go to a hospital, a place that just oozes applied science. If you're really sick, go to your church. Let's stop interfering with evolution and let such people start demonstration a bit of continuity. For the sake of our species.

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Discovery Channel's swan dive into the shitter

Are you freaking kidding me?
The boys and I usually watch documentaries. (If there's no hockey or King of the Hill on.) So we're watching the Discovery Civilization Channel and a show called "Xtreme Mysteries: Dinosaur Extinction" comes on. The narrator said that scientists don't agree on what caused the extinction. One theory was the Impact Event one (which I thought most scientists agreed with), but another "theory" was presented - they were wiped out by the Biblical Flood.

!!!!

Um. What?

Yes, some "scientists" believed that a global flood several thousands of years ago caused the dinosaur extinction. But to back track, the show explained that some scientists believed that man and dinos walked the earth at the same time! The "scientist" they interviewed was..... drum roll please...... Kent Hovind! (I thought he was in jail on federal fraud charges. Musta made bail).

No evidence was provided for either claim, and no scientist was interviewed to provide a rebuttal to the claims. You'd think that a global flood might leave some evidence behind. But no. Nothing was put forth. It was treated as an accepted fact. So The Flood hypothesis was presented as being a contender as an explanation for the dino extinction. I couldn't believe it. I had to spend the next hour explaining to the boys all the mistakes that were made in the show, what science is, and isn't, and how scientists "do" science.

PBS must be the last station left that hasn't replaced integrity with ratings.

Unbelievable.

Check out what other highly-intellectual topics we can expect from this series: link
Crop circles, the Bible predicts 9/11, the power of prayer, who's controlling the weather, who killed Princess Di, the Rapture, were the moon landings faked, and a number of topics of interest to fundamentalist Christians.

Seems the Discovery Channel is interested in becoming a tv version of The National Enquirer. They will be if they keep airing series like this one.