Eric Lyons … believes that textbooks used in schools today skew people’s perception of the world by only providing information on evolution and not creation. …
For instance, Lyons said he believes dinosaurs and man lived at the same time, contrary to the beliefs of evolutionary scientists who have separated the two by millions of years.
If, he said, the Bible is the infallible word of God as most Christians believe [mjh: really?], then all animal species and man were created within the span of two days. Therefore, dinosaurs and man must have lived during the same era.
“There is good, scientific evidence of their co-existence,” Lyons said, referring to archeological finds, including cave paintings of dinosaur-like creatures by the Anasazi Indians of the American Southwest. “We try to document everything that shows this is the truth.”
[Lyons is] the director for research at the Apologetics Press, an organization publishing “scripturally based and scientifically accurate” information on subjects as varied as evolution and spirituality. …
[D]inosaurs are one of the “sugar sticks” evolutionary scientists and people who believe in evolution use to get children interested in the idea. Science textbooks are “full of misinformation” on dinosaurs and several other scientific topics, according to Lyons. …
James Bellcock, a Four Mile Hill church member and co-organizer for the seminar, said … “I think it counterbalances the information about evolution that is out there,” Bellcock said.
He said that creation is the only way he believes the world can be explained. Bellcock, who holds a masters degree in mathematics, said that just looking at the probabilities of human life springing forth without a divine hand should be enough to make people question the theory of evolution. …
“It is difficult to explain a God that has always been, but that is really the only option there is,” Bellcock said.
This is what horrifies me about Evangelical Christians. Belief and faith are fine. But these people believe they are infallible and that their beliefs are absolutely true and all other beliefs are not just wrong but evil. It’s only worse when they bother to steal some of the trappings of science: just admit your faith, don’t try to ‘prove’ it.
Notice the comment about dinosaurs as ‘sugar sticks’ to entice the very young. Just exactly what they are doing when they say Jesus rode a dinosaur.
Finally, so what if there is a god who started it all. That could be true and the bible a bundle of nonsense. mjh
The Bible is the authentic, authoritative, and final revelation of the true God. Though written over a period of 1,400 years by forty very diverse men on two continents, The Book is completely unified and free from error. A single theme is expanded upon throughout?the redemption of man through the Messiah. The Bible was confirmed by predictive prophecies and the miracles of the inspired men who wrote it. The moral laws contained within are more reasonable and consistent than that of any other religious or naturalistic system.