Monday, I wrote a post titled
Climate Creationism," where I outlined
exactly this sort of thing. Because some magic book tells us how humanity ends and since said book doesn't mention global warming, global warming can't
possibly be a problem. At a Republican hearing on climate change, Dick Armey made the following statement:
Think Progress (emphasis theirs):
DICK ARMEY: What I’m suggesting is we have a sort of an eco-evangelical hysteria going on and it leads me to almost wonder if we are becoming a nation of environmental hypochondriacs that are willing to use the power of the state to impose enormous restrictions on the rights and the comforts of, and incomes of individuals who serve essentially a paranoia, a phobia, that has very little fact evidence in fact. Now these are observations that are popular to make because right now its almost taken as an article of faith that this crisis is real. Let me say I take it as an article of faith if the lord God almighty made the heavens and the Earth, and he made them to his satisfaction and it is quite pretentious of we little weaklings here on earth to think that, that we are going to destroy God’s creation. [...]
SEN. ORRIN HATCH: Mr. Armey it’s great to have you here. Great to see you again and we appreciate all you’ve done throughout the years and your work on Capitol Hill. Great job.
Armey is also one of the people behind the
tea party nuts. What's amazing to me is that the right isn't embarrassed by these arguments. It's like saying, "Yeah, those X-rays look pretty persuasive, but the witch doctor says it's not cancer -- it's a fairy living in your ear."
