{"id":32,"date":"2005-09-28T02:28:20","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T08:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=32"},"modified":"2010-09-12T11:19:48","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T17:19:48","slug":"may-god-damn-these-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/id\/may-god-damn-these-fools\/","title":{"rendered":"May god damn these fools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember, you can’t spell Bibles without lies.<\/p>\n

A nation where nearly <\/p>\n

half the people believe the world is only 6000 years old and dinosaurs were in Eden and on the Ark probably doesn’t deserve to be saved. <\/p>\n

Certainly, as more people willingly embrace ignorance every year, there isn’t much hope.<\/p>\n

Religion is the lobotomy of the people. <\/p>\n

mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In Evolution Debate, Creationists Are Breaking New Ground<\/a><\/p>\n

Museum Dedicated to Biblical Interpretation Of the World Is Being Built Near Cincinnati
\nBy Michael Powell, Washington Post Staff <\/p>\n

Writer<\/p>\n

PETERSBURG, Ky. — The guide, a soft-spoken fellow with a scholarly aspect, walks through the halls of this handsome, <\/p>\n

half-finished museum and points to the sculpture of a young velociraptor.<\/p>\n

“We’re placing this one in the hall that explains the <\/p>\n

post-Flood world,” explains the guide. “When dinosaurs lived with man.”<\/strong> …<\/p>\n

Mark Looy [mjh: pronounced “Looney”] <\/p>\n

— the guide and a vice president at the museum … [says], “We call him our ‘missionary lizard,’ ” Looy says. “When people <\/p>\n

realize the T. rex lived in Eden, it will lead us to a discussion of the gospel. The T. rex once was a vegetarian, too.”
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

The nation’s largest museum devoted to the alternative reality that is biblical creation science<\/em> is rising just outside <\/p>\n

Cincinnati. Set amid a park and three-acre artificial lake, the 50,000-square-foot museum features animatronic dinosaurs, state-of-the-<\/p>\n

art models and graphics, and a half-dozen staff scientists. It holds that the world and the universe are but 6,000 years old and <\/p>\n

that baby dinosaurs rode in Noah’s ark.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The $25 million Creation Museum stands much of modern science on its head and <\/p>\n

might cause a paleontologist or three to rend their garments. But officials expect to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors when the <\/p>\n

museum opens in early 2007.<\/p>\n

“Evolutionary Darwinists need to understand we are taking the dinosaurs back<\/strong>,” says <\/p>\n

Kenneth Ham, president of Answers in Genesis-USA, which is building the museum. “This is a battle cry<\/em> to recognize the <\/p>\n

science in the revealed truth of God.”<\/strong> …<\/p>\n

[B]y any measure, Young Earth Creationism — which holds that the Bible is the <\/p>\n

literal word of God and that He created the universe in seven days– has a more powerful hold on the beliefs of Americans than <\/p>\n

evolutionary theory or intelligent design. That grip grows stronger by the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Polls taken last year showed that 45 <\/p>\n

percent of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago (or less) and that man shares no common <\/p>\n

ancestor with the ape. Only 26 percent believe in the central tenet of evolution, that all life descended from a single ancestor.<\/p>\n

Another poll showed that 65 percent of Americans want creationism taught alongside evolution. …<\/p>\n

Another creationist museum <\/p>\n

launches expeditions to the Papua New Guinea highlands in search of living pterodactyls.<\/p>\n

All of this — creationist zoology, <\/p>\n

paleontology, archaeology — is framed in a distinctive academic language.<\/p>\n

So one reads of post-Babel studies, and floodology and <\/p>\n

post-diluvium studies, these being the study of the world after Noah and the Great Flood, which is regarded as purest fact. …<\/p>\n

the creationist bottom line is a through-the-looking-glass version of science. The scientific method of theory, experiment and <\/p>\n

assumptions upended does not apply. Ask Ham if he could accept evidence that conflicts with his reading of Genesis — proof, say, that a <\/p>\n

fossil is more than 6,000 years old — and he shakes his head.<\/p>\n

Creationists believe man became mortal when God cast Adam and Eve <\/p>\n

out of Eden 6,000 years ago. Death did not exist before that.<\/p>\n

“We admit we have an axiom: We have a book and it’s the Bible and <\/p>\n

it’s revealed history,” says Ham. “Where the Bible teaches on science, we can trust it as the word of God.” …<\/p>\n

Scientists place <\/p>\n

the age of Earth at 4.5 billion years. Many tend to act resigned at the mention of creationists, seeing a worldview so different as to <\/p>\n

defy debate.<\/p>\n

“There are people who are prepared to accept that the universe is a pretty untidy place,” said Ian Tattersall, a <\/p>\n

curator at the American Museum of Natural History. “And there are people, like the creationists, whose minds rebel at this notion.”<\/p>\n

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.” Daniel <\/p>\n

Patrick Moynihan<\/a><\/p>\n

ABQjournal: Museum of Natural History Takes <\/p>\n

T. Rex’s Story to Dramatic Proportions<\/a> By John Fleck, Journal Staff Writer<\/p>\n

The story of T. rex is dramatic for many reasons. <\/p>\n

In addition to being Earth’s “most horrific predator,” it was the last of its family line, ripping and tearing its way into the <\/p>\n

extinction of the dinosaurs.<\/p>\n

“It’s the end of an evolutionary story,”<\/strong> said Lucas, a curator at the New <\/p>\n

Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.<\/p>\n

But beyond the drama of T. rex is a tale as scientifically beguiling as it is <\/p>\n

dramatic.<\/p>\n

For a moment in Earth’s history that was brief in geologic terms, evolution gave the planet a family of killer <\/p>\n

dinosaurs\u2014 the Tyrannosaurids\u2014 different from anything before or since.<\/p>\n

The sharp-toothed dinosaurs wandered a world very <\/p>\n

different from our own. Called the Cretaceous (kruh-TAY-shus) period, it was in geologic terms the dawn of our modern world, as the <\/p>\n

ancient supercontinent of Pangea broke into the pieces that became the continents we see today.<\/p>\n

Flowers and bees first <\/p>\n

appeared on the planetary stage during the Cretaceous. Mammals played only bit parts, while dinosaurs, after 100 million years of <\/p>\n

evolution<\/strong>, reached their apex.<\/p>\n

Picking Over the Bones<\/a> by <\/p>\n

John Fleck<\/p>\n

Here’s a little challenge to the Intelligence of the Design. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Creationism Still Blows! at Jalenack<\/a><\/p>\n

Octopi have their optic <\/p>\n

nerves attached to the backs of their retina. They have no blind spot. Their eyes are the perfect ones. Ours still have flaws. [The <\/p>\n

Intelligent Designer] decided that we weren’t good enough to have perfect eyes.<\/p>\n

We didn’t evolve from Octopi, so we didn’t get <\/p>\n

the non-blind eye that evolved after our common ancestor (probably a jellyfish, or something).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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