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“You’ve heard of the Loch Ness Monster, right? The fact is that there are dozens of these lake creatures all over the world…”
Since 2008, I’ve been doing a weekly Q&A interview at the front of the Irish Times Saturday Magazine. This is the only one they’ve ever refused to print. I interviewed a preacher who was about to address a creationism rally in Lucan. The Irish Times refused to publish it on the grounds that the guy was nuts. My position was that of course the guy was nuts, that was precisely why I interviewed him in the first place. Sanity prevailed, unfortunately… Read the rest of this article here.
October 20th, 2010.
October 20th, 2010 at 8:50 am
“And Noah wouldn’t have been able to fit dinosaurs on his ark, that’s obvious. ” Well duh! Can you imagine the logistics?
October 20th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Hilarious!!!
October 20th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
I think the Irish Times was right not to publish this. Why give these wackjobs any more publicity?
October 20th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
You could respect a man’s views (even if clearly bonkers) until he starts talking about his “discovery” that men used to live to over 1000. When did he have this Eureka moment?
October 21st, 2010 at 3:00 pm
“And Noah wouldn’t have been able to fit dinosaurs on his ark, that’s obvious. ” Because it would have been so easy to fit in giraffe’s, elephants, rhino’s etc. Funny none of the animals on the ark ate eachother and what about all the fish? Did they feel dissed by Noah?
October 22nd, 2010 at 5:30 am
I’m with Ger, all for freedom of expression but the paper would’ve taken the brunt to an extent for publishing this! Thank Noah for your blog, Eoin!!!