Bill Muehlenberg (ex-Australian Family Association, current Secretary of the minuscule Family Council of Victoria) has a Christian right take on just about everything. I knew he was a creationist and had assumed he subscribed to the virulent version known as Young Earth Creationism (YEC) whereby the Christian god directly created the world about 6,000 years ago.

But writing recently about the global warming controversy Muehlenberg approvingly quoted a writer named William Kininmonth as follows:

For the past 10,000 years, the Earth has been near peak warmth in the climatic roller-coaster that has characterised the past million years. Yet only 20,000 years ago, great ice sheets covered much of North America and Europe …

A true YEC believer might just cope with the ‘10,000 years’, but definitely not the 20,000, and as for the million years - forget it! Pity that so many of Muehlenberg’s strong supporters are YECs, such as Tas Walker of Creation Ministries International, for instance. It’ll take a snowstorm of emails to sort this one out.

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