Other side's biggest misinterpretation?

That dinosaurs disengaged from another planet that somehow lost its gravity at about the same time as the Flood, then floated through space until colliding with Earth just after the Flood, and empacted at just the right angle, speed, and point that their bodies were engulfed in the deep layers of mud where they became fosselized in what ... approximately 5,000 years. Phew!

Hold the friggin' phone, dudes. This particular theory reportedly was advanced on the job site by an engineering grad of Rose Hulman Poly, and who is now a U.S. Congressman who is re-elected term after term by virtue of his fundy supporters who arrive in droves from both inside and outside his district to support him and his gun-totin' pro-lifer tenets.

Holmes:
I had completely forgot about that one ... "the Devil made me do it!"
Anyway, I have an appointment to attend to, and then I will get back to y'all as soon as possible with more details of the Dinosaurs from Planet Hell.
Peace

So, anyway, this particular congressman really is a brilliant fellow. In fact, he wrote a dissenting Republican opinion against the Iraqi war before our troops were sent over. It was based upon constitutional law and precedent, and was one of the most astute discertations I have ever read regarding congressional powers v. executive powers, and was truly a work of genius. Yet, when it comes to "faith" he apparently does not swerve from the strictest literal interpretation of biblical verse. Imagine that.
So, the story goes, that when he was younger and recently graduated from Rose Hulman, he was challenged by a co-worker to explain dinosaur fossils relative to the Flood myth; and his reply was that which I gave earlier in the thread ... they originated on another planet and collided with Earth just after the Flood, embedding themselves deeply into the layers of muck laid down by the Deluge.
Just goes to show ... sometimes the strictest interpreters of the primary document of American political policy turn out also to be the strictest interpreters of the primary documents of faith. Is this surprising other than with regard to their eductional backgrounds?

Now just a second there my friend. It is not my intent to portray my congressman as a "nut." First of all, he has won several intense races here in the "Bloody Eight." And I can attest that he comes from a very hardworking, large, and devoted family. It's just that he and his family share some very fundamental beliefs with regard to faith and constitutional politics. And although I may not share all of his religious and political tenets, it would be very unfair of me not to mention that the story I am repeating was spread originally by political supporters of two of his previous opponents for the 8th Congressional seat. So, the story may be true or may be a fabrication. Either way, it has persisted in local political folklore for over a decade now. My point, I guess if I have a point here, is that a man who is very well educated, extremely intelligent, consistently and repeatedly successful in politics, capable of writing brilliant speaches ... and he does write his own ... and otherwise is very worldly in his views, can still have faith-based beliefs that make some of us scratch our heads in bewilderment.