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Scalia Blows Creationist Dog-Whistle, at a Catholic High School no less. Wonder what the leader of the largest Christian church in the world would say about Scalia's bloviating?
Justice Scalia Blows Creationist Dog-Whistle During Graduation Speech At Catholic High School
by Ian Millhiser
June 5, 2015
Justice Antonin Scalia spoke on Thursday at his granddaughter’s graduation from a Catholic high school in Bethesda, Maryland. During the speech, however, the sitting Supreme Court justice offered a subtle nod to young earth creationism, the belief that that the earth was created by God and is only several thousand years-old.
“Class of 2015, you should not leave Stone Ridge High School thinking that you face challenges that are at all, in any important sense, unprecedented,” Scalia said, adding that “Humanity has been around for at least some 5,000 years or so, and I doubt that the basic challenges as confronted are any worse now, or alas even much different, from what they ever were.”
Humanity began to develop much more than 5,000 years ago. Early human ancestors began to diverge from the chimpanzee lineage about six million years ago. The first members of the species Homo sapiens are believed to have lived in Africa about 100,000 years ago, and cave paintings and other evidence of human culture exist that are believed to have been created 50,000 years ago.
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It's unbelievable to me that goofballs like Scalia and others on the SCOTUS will be deciding whether or not millions of Americans will be able to see a doctor or vote, or if it's OK for someone to buy politicians or if foreigners can buy our politicians or...
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Scalia Blows Creationist Dog-Whistle, at a Catholic High School no less. Wonder what the leader of the largest Christian church in the world would say about Scalia's bloviating?
Justice Scalia Blows Creationist Dog-Whistle During Graduation Speech At Catholic High School
by Ian Millhiser
June 5, 2015
Justice Antonin Scalia spoke on Thursday at his granddaughter’s graduation from a Catholic high school in Bethesda, Maryland. During the speech, however, the sitting Supreme Court justice offered a subtle nod to young earth creationism, the belief that that the earth was created by God and is only several thousand years-old.
“Class of 2015, you should not leave Stone Ridge High School thinking that you face challenges that are at all, in any important sense, unprecedented,” Scalia said, adding that “Humanity has been around for at least some 5,000 years or so, and I doubt that the basic challenges as confronted are any worse now, or alas even much different, from what they ever were.”
Humanity began to develop much more than 5,000 years ago. Early human ancestors began to diverge from the chimpanzee lineage about six million years ago. The first members of the species Homo sapiens are believed to have lived in Africa about 100,000 years ago, and cave paintings and other evidence of human culture exist that are believed to have been created 50,000 years ago.
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It's unbelievable to me that goofballs like Scalia and others on the SCOTUS will be deciding whether or not millions of Americans will be able to see a doctor or vote, or if it's OK for someone to buy politicians or if foreigners can buy our politicians or...
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