Arizona State Senator Climate-Change Denier: Earth Is Just 6,000 Years Old

July 8th, 2009, 3:08 PM EDT

Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen wants to open up uranium mining in her state.  After all, she says, the earth is 6000 years old, has been here long before anybody had environmental laws, “and so far it hasn’t been done away with.”  Ironically, had she known the true age of the earth (estimated to be 4.55 billion years), she would have had a better argument.


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  1. {{{sob}}}

    LEAVE Sarah Palin ALONE Alan!

    WHY do you keep on picking on her? oh, er, um, nevermind…

    calypsogirl Reply:

    I guess he likes the challenge…

    calypsogirl Reply:

    What’s 4moreyears, 4moreyears? Is that when you graduate or when you get out of the slammer…lol

    libpatriot Reply:

    Four more years for Obama and Biden.

  2. I swear, it seems that the republican party has a new goal: to be a permenant minority

    average james Reply:

    It certainly seems so from here.

  3. that cant be right… Sarah Palin is 6001 years old!

    pizzaman Reply:

    Fluff: That was a good laugh no matter what side you’re on.

    TDro319 Reply:

    Hey, if that’s the case, she sure looks good for her age!

  4. Has anybody bothered to ask why they changed it from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”?

    OldLefty Reply:

    Has anybody bothered to ask why they changed it from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”?

    ……………………….

    I understood it was because “Global Warming” sounded like a good thin to some people.

    Remember, Newt taught that phraseology matters with his 1996 GOPAC memo, Language: A Key Mechanism of Control.

    jasperjava Reply:

    Republicans talk about “tax relief” instead of tax cuts, “collateral damage” instead of civilian casualties, the “death tax” instead of the estate tax. It’s manipulating language in function of an agenda.

    “Climate Change”, however, is a more accurate description than “global warming”. The global climate is a very complex system. The earth is warming, but this could paradoxically cause ice ages in certain areas of the world, as the polar icecaps melt and fill the ocean currents with frigid waters. So it’s not the same type of verbal obfuscation that’s practiced by the Orwellian Right.

    Kregg Reply:

    Hah said; Has anybody bothered to ask why they changed it from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”?

    K: Yeah, because we’ve been cooling…

  5. Mental defectives like Sen. Allen should be prohibited from running for elective office–because these people live in a dream-world and they are driving the human race to the brink of extinction.

    She should be removed from office.

    pizzaman Reply:

    And we thought CONSERVATIVES were fascists. Ha!

  6. Now let’s give her a break here, shall we? She was only off by a slim margin of, oh, 4 billion years!

  7. She says “… so our grandchildren can have the same lifestyles that we have…”.

    My take?

    Why does this woman hate her grandchildren so much?

    Does she really want them to be so ignorant as to deny the body of knowledge that has taken humanity milenia to develop?

  8. “…so our grandchildren can have the same lifestyles that we have…”

    Another brain-dead hick talking lifestyles when she should be talking survival.

  9. Not only is the Earth only 6000 years old but Adam & Eve peacefully co-existed with dinosaurs. In fact, they kept a dinosaur as a pet. They called it “Dino”.

    http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/us_world/Creationists-Take-Over-Natural-History-Museum-Scoff.html

    The “Creation Museum” in Petersburg, KY also has a nice display proving the co-habitation.

    Yabba Dabba Dooo!

    jazmine Reply:

    Haha! The article was written by Jim Newell, who also writes for the daily “Wonkette” That should tell us something.

    craig7120 Reply:

    Betty or Wilma?

    Im gonna say Betty

    calypsogirl Reply:

    I’ll take Bamm-Bamm…Yabba, Yabba, can do :-p

    EricG Reply:

    Don’t forget that Jesus rode a dinosaur…

    calypsogirl Reply:

    Ya, I think it was a dromeosaur, not to be confused with a dromedary.

    TDro319 Reply:

    “Don’t forget that Jesus rode a dinosaur…”

    I think he was also carrying an AK-47. Gotta have pertection from all dem dar gays, Muslims, Jews and Libruls!

  10. Relatively few conservatives think the way she does.

    BTW, if you want to have some fun with people who think the world is only 6,000 years old, ask them to explain how some visible stars are more than 10,000 light years away. You’ll be amazed at what you hear, if they even understand the question.

    But be fair. Such caricatures are almost — not quite, but almost — as bad as citing Charlie Manson as a good example of a liberal.

    EricG Reply:

    She does belong to the Republican Party. There is no escaping the connection between radical fundamentalism and the conservative movement.

    “as bad as citing Charlie Manson as a good example of a liberal.”

    Last time I checked Manson never had any connection to liberalism, but literalistic views on The Bible seem to form the major argument coming from conservatives against gay-marriage / abortion.

    I would disagree with your assessment that this is a bad example. It’s a perfect example of how looney some of these Republican Reps are.

    GuidoVanHorn Reply:

    Charlie Manson is the poster child of extreme liberalism.

    Is Alan against uranium mining? poor liberals can’t figure out that Nuclear is our best option of eradicating greenhouse gases…

    libpatriot Reply:

    “Charlie Manson is the poster child of extreme liberalism.”
    No, Guido, Charlie Manson is a racist who carved a swastika between his eyebrows.

    “poor liberals can’t figure out that Nuclear is our best option of eradicating greenhouse gases…”
    You’ve managed to convince me that nuclear power has to be part of the solution if we’re ever going to be able to shut down coal plants while still satisfying our national energy demands.

    GuidoVanHorn Reply:

    I said Extreme…

    actually it really isn’t fair to put all people on a political spectrum, Manson was a crazy fool.

    It’s like people that say Jesus was a liberal..Jesus wasn’t a politician…sticking him on a political spectrum scale is disingenuous.

    and thanks for taking an honest look at Nuclear, just trying to get everyone else on board.

  11. am I out of exile yet?

  12. Who is to say that this current creation is more than 6000 years old? I could be. There could have also been other, older creations that produced dinosaurs. There are many possibilities as to the age of the earth. What I find interesting is that Libs poo poo one estimation and call it factually false while promoting their own estimation as factually correct…. Both are estimations and the factual truth is unknown…

    TDro319 Reply:

    Enlighten us Kregg, with your infinite wisdom. Won’t you?

    JaredfromTexas Reply:

    Entertain us TDRO, with your infinite cynicism. Won’t you?

    TDro319 Reply:

    Gee, I’d like to Jared. But it seems you are busy entertaining yourself. I think I’ll wait for you to finish, which may be in 4 or 8 years, depending when Obama leaves office.

    craig7120 Reply:

    I gots some entertainment… dont watch jared its scary atheist comedy. booo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfqht0LEOWQ&NR=1

  13. Alan, I can assure you from the nearly two decades I’ve lived in Arizona that if you’re looking for more candidates for your “Wingnut” profiles, you’ll find our state legislature will be the gift that keeps on giving!