Here's a little nugget from Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, mocking Al Gore and climate change:
During the session, Gore's "Chicken Little" scenarios were met with skepticism, particularly from Senate Republicans like Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., who said he, like many scientists, believed the dire global warming projections were a "hoax." On the House side, the former vice president was called a prophet by some Democratic members but his revelations were challenged by others. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, cited 600,000-year-old scientific evidence that Gore's carbon dioxide claims are false. When Gore introduced …
Wait. Back up a moment. What was that last bit from Rep. Joe Barton?
Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, cited 600,000-year-old scientific evidence …
600,000 years?
B-b-b-but the Family Research Council doesn't believe that the earth is 600,000 years old! How can Barton have "scientific evidence" that's 594,000 years older than the universe itself?
Maybe what Perkins and Barton meant to say was that they had secret scientific evidence that appeared to be hundreds of thousands of years old because God decided to make it seem that old when he created it along with everything else 6,000 years ago. Maybe after hiding all those trilobite fossils and quickly (but very carefully) layering the sediment of the Grand Canyon, God decided to also stash away some artificially aged "evidence" that heat-trapping gases don't actually trap heat.
Or maybe Barton and Perkins just got so caught up with their unsubstantiated attacks on Al Gore that, in their excitement, they forgot that their political careers depend on the support of people they have duped into accepting the unbiblical hucksterism of young-earth, scientific-creationism.
Fundies please take note: Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council believes that the earth is at least 600,000 years old.
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