Extinction Can’t Come Soon Enough

Flintstones! Meet the Flintstones! They’re a bible approved stone age family!!!

The commenters on that website mostly seem to agree that this chick is a troll based on this and other unnamed posts. If I had the time, I’d go poking around that website to see what other fundie mommie nonsense she’s riling the breeders with.

Anybody else seen that “Evolution” magazine from Discovery Channel (?) on the stands? I’ve seen it at the local grocery stores and Wal-Mart. I think someone decided it was time to hit the low-information consumers so we don’t keep looking like morons to the rest of the world.

@redmanlaw: In order to stop looking like morons to the rest of the world, we kind of have to stop being morons (as a country/populace).

A friend of mine just explained to me the difference, hair-wise, between Romney and Perry: gel vs. spray. I feel better now because I was having trouble telling them apart.

A friend’s 4 yr old daughter asked her dad at breakfast the other day where the world and everything came from. Her father valiantly began trying to explain the theory of evolution in a way a 4 yr old could understand while my friend basely hid in the laundry room. This ended with the child saying, in a horrified voice, “So the chimps at the zoo are going to become people???!???!” One does at that point feel a certain yearning to just say, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now eat your oatmeal.”

@TJ/ Jamie Sommers /TJ: There’s at least one other winner, regarding Halloween.

But while “murieljcompton” is probably a troll, the work is worthy of Weekly World News or Christwire.

And — I did spend some time chasing this down — by wonderful coincidence, there’s a real Muriel Compton in Wasilla.

I do my best to ignore BabyCenter, but there was a recent (er, maybe 2-3 years ago?) Mormon convert that people at RfM were following (OMG! I forgot her screen name! awsum!). Anyway, avoid! BabyCenter will kill brain cells, esp the Mormon board.

@Mistress Cynica: that’s exactly how the bible version got started. the listeners to the bible stories couldn’t read or write and had never even been to a zoo, putting the kid you speak of on a higher intellectual level than most folks before and during the time of jesus. the non-jewish readers and writers of the time believed in gods, goddesses, and myths even more fanciful than the ones in the stories that became the bible. that’s another problem with the bible, the other religions and cults heroes go on better adventures and kick a lot more ass.

@jwmcsame: God coming down to kill a bunch of Egyptians himself (there was no Angel of Death) at Passover was pretty awesome. Smite!

@redmanlaw: awright. isn’t smiting usually done best with the jawbone of an ass? or in the case you mentioned, maybe some volcanic ash from santorini?

@Mistress Cynica: From an early age, I did that thing with my kids when you hold your hands together and say “here is the church, here is the steeple” – in part because it was one of those lap-sitting rituals handed down by my grandmother that I always enjoyed.

If you hold your fingers on top of your knuckles rather than below, when you open up your hands we’d say “Where are the people?”, to which I’d reply “they’re watching football“.