I like the idea of riding dinosaurs and such. What fun! The Noodly One would surely have blessed our ancestors with such an experience.

And I’m sure that carbon dating is just being misinterpreted. Haven’t previous dating methods been invalidated? All such perversions of this “science” and “facts” are misdirections, placed there to punish and confuse those who doubt the One True Word. I’m sure that the ineffable wisdom of the Flying Spaghetti Monster will one day grant us the vision to see the Truth.

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Amazingly, the “humourous” bit above sounds an awful lot like some Bible thumpers I’ve heard speak. More worrisome to me is the fact that those sorts of people believe in raising big families, whereas more “intelligent” folks tend to have small families or be childless. I fear that we are on a path of inverse natural selection: humanity is selecting for ignorant, easily misled future generations incapable of forming reasonable opinions.

I respect people who have a faith to guide those parts of their life where simple fact and logic based theory don’t apply. But I fear those too ignorant or just plain stupid to realize that faith should not be used to over-ride reason.