Meanwhile, Schweitzers research has been hijacked by young earth creationists, who insist that dinosaur soft tissue couldnt possibly survive millions of years. They claim her discoveries support their belief, based on their interpretation of Genesis, that the earth is only a few thousand years old. Of course, its not unusual for a paleontologist to differ with creationists. But when creationists misrepresent Schweitzers data, she takes it personally: she describes herself as a complete and total Christian. On a shelf in her office is a plaque bearing an Old Testament verse: For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
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young-earth creationists also see Schweitzers work as revolutionary, but in an entirely different way. They first seized upon Schweitzers work after she wrote an article for the popular science magazine Earth in 1997 about possible red blood cells in her dinosaur specimens. Creation magazine claimed that Schweitzers research was powerful testimony against the whole idea of dinosaurs living millions of years ago. It speaks volumes for the Bibles account of a recent creation.
This drives Schweitzer crazy. Geologists have established that the Hell Creek Formation, where B. rex was found, is 68 million years old, and so are the bones buried in it. Shes horrified that some Christians accuse her of hiding the true meaning of her data. They treat you really bad, she says. They twist your words and they manipulate your data. For her, science and religion represent two different ways of looking at the world; invoking the hand of God to explain natural phenomena breaks the rules of science. After all, she says, what God asks is faith, not evidence. If you have all this evidence and proof positive that God exists, you dont need faith. I think he kind of designed it so that wed never be able to prove his existence. And I think thats really cool.
The posts on this very thread serve to corroborate Schweitzer's words.
The posts on this very thread serve to corroborate Schweitzer's words.
Honey; just WAIT to see what SOME Evo's will do to you!
BTW, it isn't YOUR data; it's just DATA. Your INTERPRETATIONS of the data is yours; and so is the YEC's interpretation theirs.
I'm shocked. Shocked!!