The Questioning Librarian

At least that's what RightWingNews.com would have you think. The story, emailed to me as a link, purports that the famed Mongol conqueror is being "rehabilitated" as an environmental hero by the left, an assertion without evidence that is certainly not true. Full story here: http://rightwingnews.com/2011/01/genghis-khan-eco-warrior/ Of course, they selectively quote from the article to try and make it seem that the authors were acting to advocate rather than simply report. In short, the original piece notes that, in a study of climate fluctuations in human history, by far the largest fluctuation before the current era was a period of cooling following the conquests of Genghis Khan, cooling that can be directly related to his actions. Because of the estimated 40 million casualties caused by the Mongol's conquests, the earth cooled measurably as forests grew in abandoned fields. But, wait, before you say that no sane environmentalist would advocate killing million...

That's right. Ken Ham posted on his Answers in Genesis website how disappointed and upset he was when he saw Glenn Beck and a Jewish rabbi discussing the Tower of Babel, not in a literal sense but as a figurative tale. Unsurprisingly, Glenn Beck saw it as a parable about socialism, how man all became the same, but then God brought down the tower and everyone became happy individuals again. It's an interpretation that could nicely be called "novel", but of course Beck has many such "novel" interpretations of things. Ken Ham's just mad that Beck doesn't (apparently) believe in a literal Babel. Here's the link:  http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2011/01/24/help-us-defend Ken wants us all to know that his supporters should pray, or give money, to help defend the truth of AiG from an unbelieving world."We need to be doing all we can to help people understand that the history in the Bible is true." Yes, because we all know that eve...