Major Adams is going to have to do a lot of fast talking to keep Rose Bowl hero Vince Young at the top of the NFL’s draft board. From reports:

Texas quarterback Vince Young, whose agent is Major Adams (wasn’t he the guy on “Wagon Train”?), decided not to throw, run or pick up any heavy pieces of metal at the Indianapolis combine. For one thing, he is currently working on improving his throwing mechanics, which have some pro scouts wary. For another, his Rose Bowl performance for the ages isn’t a bad place to stop.

And here’s the killer:

The stunning news of the day from the combine revolved around Texas quarterback and Rose Bowl hero Vince Young.

Young, who led the Longhorns to the national championship with a great performance against USC, scored only a 6 on the Wonderlic aptitude examination. The 50-question, 12-minute exam has a maximum score of 50 points. Although several players usually score in single-digits each year, it is highly unusual for quarterbacks to score that low.

Several NFL team executives confirmed Young’s score, which could hurt his draft status.

Ouch.

Update: John Wagner points to this report, which says the original reports on Young’s score were inaccurate.

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From the Rocky Mountain News article, “Group challenges science on ‘biblically correct’ tours” –

BOULDER - Inside the flagship lab of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a dozen home-schooled children and their parents walk past the offices of scientists grappling with topics from global warming and microphysics to solar storms and the electrical fields of lightning.

They are trailing Rusty Carter, a guide with Biblically Correct Tours.

At a large, colorful panel along a wall, Carter reads aloud from a passage describing the disappearance of dinosaurs from the Earth about 65 million years ago. He and some of the older students exchange knowing smiles at the timeline, which contradicts their interpretation of the Bible suggesting a 6,000-year-old planet.

“Did man and dinosaurs live together?” Carter asks.

A timid yes comes from the students.

“How do we know that to be true?” Carter says.

There’s a long pause.

“What day did God create dinosaurs on?” he continues.

“Six,” says a chorus of voices.

“What day did God create man on?”

“Six.”

“Did man and dinosaurs live together?”

“Yes,” the students say…

The tours are not all fun and games, with the guides claiming that evolutionist thinking supports racism and abortion.

This happened on a recent atmospheric research center tour, when Carter told a dozen children and their parents abortion was an act of natural selection carried out by humans.

Other tours suggest Hitler was playing his version of survival of the fittest by favoring whites and note that museum dioramas of early humans have black “subhumans.”

“My contention is evolution kills people,” [founder Bill] Jack said in an interview. “It’s not that evolutionists don’t have morality, it’s that evolution can offer no morality.

“Ideas have consequences. If you believe you came from slime there is no reason not to, if you can, get away with anything.”

Of course, even if you don’t believe you came from slime, you can still be pretty slimy.

Media Orchard’s belated entry in Phil’s caption contest.

(Photo: Neville Hobson)

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