![]() ![]() This led to the Iranian nuclear agreement last year, and why it’s arguably in the world’s interests. What follows in the article is several meaty grafs on Iran’s actual history in pursuing nukes, spanning several White House administrations. Trump said after Clinton’s four years as secretary of state, “Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons.” But Iran was already on a path to acquiring nuclear weapons. At issue is whether the nuclear deal will prevent Iran, as intended, from becoming a nuclear power. Take a look at this Huffington Post piece, which does a fabulous job of listing a few of the whoppers in Trump’s convention speech and summarizing the corrections- just as an example: That Trump casually lies at the podium almost as often as he breathes is a well-documented claim leveled at him by traditional and new media alike. But actually unpacking all those lies in one cable news segment, in the confines of a debate, or in a single online post is a Herculean task. It seems Donald Trump may have unwittingly (or wittingly, for all we know) hit on the same tactic. Let’s look at a few laughable examples. Since the planets Uranus and Venus spin retrograde, the Big Bang violates this sacred principle and therefore evolution is impossible.” If you are properly informed in all the fields of science involved there, you can appreciate what it would take to unpack that nonsense. ![]() ![]() In this imaginary conversation, Hovind convinced the imaginary professor to accept Young Earth Creationism because (paraphrasing), “if all the matter and energy in the universe came from a tiny spinning dot like atheist scientists say, then by the conservation of angular momentum, everything would be spinning in the same direction. A stellar example is his purported conversation with an initially skeptical professor. My favorite example comes not from Gish himself but from a creationist evangelist named Kent Hovind, a renowned carnival barker who would throw up so many distortions riddled with so many errors that a single one would take long detours into various fields of science to correct. ![]()
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