Damn You Einstein, You Liberal You

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By Chris Mooney
Aug 11, 2010 5:58 PMNov 19, 2019 9:11 PM

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Joe Romm has found and had a massive amount of fun with the Conservapedia entry denouncing relativity as a liberal plot. Go read his post. I'll just quote a bit:

I don’t see how that story of Jesus healing somebody proves action at a distance instantaneously.... Silly conservatives. You would need to demonstrate that the healing took place exactly when Jesus spoke to disapprove the special theory of relativity – rather than say a fraction of a second later.

Warning: If you read Romm's post

or the Conservapedia entry

on which it is based, you will be entering a true bizarro world--one in which fidelity to biblical literalism not only leads to the rejection of everything we know, but further, to the generation of extraordinarily wacky scientific-sounding psuedo-arguments. Just as it does on evolution, actually.

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