Arizona senator says Earth is 6,000 years old.

Do you have to be an uninformed idiot to be a politician in the USA? Or just in Arizona?

Here's a video of a session of the Arizona legislature where State Senator Sylvia Allen casually states that Earth is 6,000 years old. Or is it just Arizona? Including the Grand Canyon?



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Here's Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer take on it.

If, for some reason, you the reader thinks this is correct and the Earth *is* 6,000 years old, I feel sorry for you. More so, I feel sorry for Arizonans that have to live with these idiots as their representatives. Why, oh, why do they vote them in? (and yes, we do have some of them in Florida, the State where I live, but no, I did not vote for any of them).

If you want to know how do we know the age of the Earth, please read: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-age-of-earth.html