And that's just silly. He was talking about (and I share it below) thefact that a couple of new species have been discovered on very remote islands.
First off, they aren't new as in just appeared "plop", and scientists - those scientists in this particular field - there are a lot of scientific fields, ya know, Rush - have just discovered them. In the same way native Americans had discovered what was to become the USA long before Europeans "discovered" it.
And frankly, I do think mammalian species threatened with extinction need to be saved, and can be saved at the expense of someone's job in some town. We're human beings, we can adapt, we can move to new towns and getjobs there. Whereas species of animals can't do that.
Having said that- there's no reason to ruin someone's livlihood because of a snail darter - I do agree with Rush on that.
RUSH: You know, ladies and gentlemen, just as the elitists, the wannabe ruling class people on our side are a little full of it, so are scientists. Many scientists don't know diddly-squat. In fact, these next two stories are from the "scientists don't know excrement and God is amazing file." Two stories, one from Bangkok: "Dracula fish, a bald songbird and a seven-meter (23 feet) tall carnivorous plant are among several unusual new species found in the Greater Mekong region last year, researchers said Wednesday. Other new finds among the 145 new species include a frog that sounds like a cricket and a 'sucker fish', which uses its body to stick to rocks in fast flowing waters to move upstream, according to conservation group WWF. With fangs at the front of each jaw, the 'dracula minnow' is one of the more bizarre new species found in 2009 in the Mekong River region, which comprises Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and China's Yunnan Province."
Second story: "Scientists Find 200 New Species in Papua New Guinea -- Scientists on Wednesday unveiled a spectacular array of more than 200 new species discovered in the Pacific islands of Papua New Guinea, including a white-tailed mouse and a tiny, long-snouted frog." How many of you remember, along with me, the horror stories of how many species we are wiping out every year because of global warming. I always said, "How do we know we're wiping them out? Do we really know there aren't any more X's left? Have we scoured every acre of the earth? There really aren't any more of those?" And how do we know that these are actually new? Were they just created yesterday, the day we found them? How long have these new species been around? And how can they be new if we're destroying them? And yet, ladies and gentlemen, we will tell a farmer he can't use his land because a snail darter is threatened. We're being governed by a bunch of stupid idiot jackasses.
I still don't know what "scientists don't know anything and God is amazing" has to do with finding species that exist in extremely remote areas that no one has ever been in before, compared to species that live in the USA. Is Rush trying to say that it was okay for the dodo to go extinct because maybe there's a dodo species on this island? That there might be passenger pigeons on the island? That just because there are 66 (or whatever number) black rhinos left in Africa, that's okay because there might be a rhino herd in Equatorial New Guinea, so that makes it alright?
As human beings, we should be smart enough to figure out ways to share this planet with - if it takes you this way - "the rest of god's creatures." Why would He create them if he wanted themt to go extinct? (For that matter,why would he create mosquitos and ticks, what do they contribute to anything, animal or human, except misery? And yet there they are! Yes, God is amazing.)
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