MW Governor FitzGerald Refuses to State How Old the Earth Is

[Potus]

Governor of the Midwest, LeBronFitzGerald, has refused to state how old the earth is. This disturbing fact comes on the heels of a controversy regarding the Governor's support of teaching creationism over evolution.

Write In Charles Darwin for Midwest Governor.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

All this because of an obscure line in a post that "got noticed" late. As I said back in April (in response to Griff I believe), there is no such thing as the RL "don't respond lest you increase a controversy's visibility", in Atlasia. Here we have a small population, everything has a paper trail (posts) and if something is found (plenty of time for such to be found as well), it can be spread quickly.

Fitzgerald hanged himself by walking into this mess (the initial post) and then attempting to apply a real life political rule in a place where such doesn't work.

[Potus]

Update: This series of scandals has resulted in a collapse of public support for Governor Fitzgerald. The Governor is now seriously in danger of being defeated for re-election.

[angus]

MW Governor FitzGerald Refuses to State How Old the Earth Is

Good for him.  Anybody who tells you that he was there at the beginning is either a liar or a god, and since gods only exist in the minds of people, that pretty much narrows it down.

FitzGerald doesn't say how old it is because he doesn't know how old it is.  Neither do I.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

MW Governor FitzGerald Refuses to State How Old the Earth Is

Good for him.  Anybody who tells you that he was there at the beginning is either a liar or a god, and since gods only exist in the minds of people, that pretty much narrows it down.

FitzGerald doesn't say how old it is because he doesn't know how old it is.  Neither do I.

I think 4.6 billion years is a good estimate.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

MW Governor FitzGerald Refuses to State How Old the Earth Is

Good for him.  Anybody who tells you that he was there at the beginning is either a liar or a god, and since gods only exist in the minds of people, that pretty much narrows it down.

FitzGerald doesn't say how old it is because he doesn't know how old it is.  Neither do I.

I think 4.6 billion years is a good estimate.

Would you please respect the fact that he chooses not to express his view on the age of the earth and not use that to destroy him politically?

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

MW Governor FitzGerald Refuses to State How Old the Earth Is

Good for him.  Anybody who tells you that he was there at the beginning is either a liar or a god, and since gods only exist in the minds of people, that pretty much narrows it down.

FitzGerald doesn't say how old it is because he doesn't know how old it is.  Neither do I.

I think 4.6 billion years is a good estimate.

Would you please respect the fact that he chooses not to express his view on the age of the earth and not use that to destroy him politically?

Basic science is not something upon which a candidate for Governor can simply "express his view".

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

MW Governor FitzGerald Refuses to State How Old the Earth Is

Good for him.  Anybody who tells you that he was there at the beginning is either a liar or a god, and since gods only exist in the minds of people, that pretty much narrows it down.

FitzGerald doesn't say how old it is because he doesn't know how old it is.  Neither do I.

I think 4.6 billion years is a good estimate.

Would you please respect the fact that he chooses not to express his view on the age of the earth and not use that to destroy him politically?

Basic science is not something upon which a candidate for Governor can simply "express his view".

So you're expecting everybody to toe the Darwinian evolutionary line while blindly not even considering other views?

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

When it comes to the application of public policy .... yes.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

When it comes to the application of public policy .... yes.

You are aware Darwinian evolution doesn't even have a plurality amongst Americans/Atlasians. Would you like the stats on that?

[Flake]

When it comes to the application of public policy .... yes.

You are aware Darwinian evolution doesn't even have a plurality amongst Americans/Atlasians. Would you like the stats on that?

yes, before the great beheading.

besides: we should be teaching kids science, not religion.

[Donerail]

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

When it comes to the application of public policy .... yes.

You are aware Darwinian evolution doesn't even have a plurality amongst Americans/Atlasians. Would you like the stats on that?

Neither did abolitionism at one point.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

When it comes to the application of public policy .... yes.

You are aware Darwinian evolution doesn't even have a plurality amongst Americans/Atlasians. Would you like the stats on that?

Good public policy should be based on best-evidence... note the word... evidence.

[angus]

I think 4.6 billion years is a good estimate.

I think 4.5 billion years is a better estimate, if you're going to use radiometric dating.  Actually, the oldest Earth rocks are only about 3.96 billion years, and the stuff that's over 4 billion years are meteors and other extra-terrestrial.  These trends come and go.  Lord Kelvin calculated a date based on cooling through conduction and radiation and decided the earth was 30 million years old based on the laws of thermodynamics.  Later Rutherford decided, based on isotopic dating, that it was maybe 500 billion years.  We're up to 4 billion now.  (4.5 billion?  Can we honestly claim two significant figures?!)

But why quibble over such things?  It all seems pretty far removed from the cost of a loaf of bread or a gallon of fuel.  Certainly the governor has more pressing issues to occupy his time.

[SWE]

lol jcl