December 20, 2008

Obama Appoints White House Science Adviser

UPDATE/WARNING, WILL ROBINSON: The following is a joke. A very bitter, very cynical joke that I honestly figured no one would buy. I guess things really are so unpredictable right now (with every day comes a new and bigger slap in the face), it really is believable.

I’d normally let everybody suffer through to the end of the post, but I see I’m causing cardiac arrest across the gayosphere, so: It’s not real.

I apologize for the racing hearts.

Not that I wouldn’t put it past him myself…

Kenneth Alfred Ham (born October 20, 1951) is an Australian president of Answers in Genesis USA and Joint CEO of Answers in Genesis International. A vocal advocate for a young Earth and a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis, his cross-country speaking tours and many books make him one of the better known young-Earth creationists.

Notably, Answers in Genesis opened its 60,000 square foot Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky on May 28, 2007. the building features sophisticated animatronic dinosaurs alongside humans and depicts young earth creationist ideas.

As a young Earth creationist, Ham believes that the entire universe was created about 6,000 years ago and that Noah’s flood occurred about 4,500 years ago. He believes this explains how a small number of animals carried on Noah’s ark could produce the biological diversity. Ham also believes that dinosaurs co-existed with modern humans. He supports this claim with a cave painting which he states resembles a brachiosaur. Regarding his beliefs, Ham has told audiences, “If you disagree with what I’m going to say, please do not give me your opinion, because I’m not interested.”

Ham accepts that natural selection can give rise to a number of species from an original population, by Mendelian recombination of already existing genes. He believes that new genes cannot arise from mutations, as this would be “adding information” (he claims that only an intelligence can do this); mutations and natural selection can only “remove preexisting information”. Furthermore, all of these species are of the same kind (a term borrowed from the English translation of Genesis 1:11 and elsewhere) and no new “kind” can arise from this process.

AiG believes that evolution is the “source” of many kinds of evil, and that rejection of God’s Word as absolute authority and acceptance of evolutionary ideas will affect the way people think and act—and fuel social ills. …

Oops! I am so sorry — I got a Wikipedia article mixed up with an actual news story.

Silly me. But in light of the events of the past couple of days, I’m sure you can see how easy it was to make such a mistake.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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