Posted on 03/11/2006 7:33:48 AM PST by dread78645
Answers in Genesis had been an international organization, with the U.S. branch under Ken Ham based in Kentucky, and an Australian branch under Carl Wieland in Queensland (which was formerly known as the Creation Science Foundation). Now the Australian group (along with ministries in Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa) has changed its name to Creation Ministries International, explaining in a recent brochure that the U.S. group did not want to be "subject to an international representative system of checks/balances/peer review involving all the other offices bearing the same 'brand name'."
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The U.S. group, known for spending millions on a creationist museum, has interesting Form 990s filed with the IRS. Some highlights from 2003 and 2004:
Revenue: $9,016,228 (2003), $10,423,222 (2004).
Expenses: $6,894,456 (2003), $8,320,926 (2004).
Assets: $10,778,086 (2003), $17,368,759 (2004).
Liabilities: $1,693,035 (2003), $6,086,610 (2004).
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There's good money to be made in perpetuating ignorance.
How much are you making?
I though this was about those who prefer Peter Gabriel-era Genesis over the Phil Collins era.
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Thanks for the ping!
These guys seem to have taken their strawman version of Darwin to heart. Any way you can feed off that other idiot is good.
Ping to self.
I love it. Now we await the first mistaken creationist to tell us that Kent Hovind isn't in it for the money either - why he practically GIVES his stuff away!
Yeah. Right.
When people ask, "Why is evolution the only thing "they" go after, the answer is simple: $$$$. I have no problem with capitalism, obviously, just a problem with scamming the ignorant for it, as AiG, DI, etc all do.
I sometimes think that. But we can look ourselves in the eye in the mirror. The charlatan cheats who run creationist websites, who undoubtedly know that the whole thing is just an exercise in fleecing the faithful can do too, but only because God didn't bless them with a conscience.
That's true, sad but funny.
I like your tagline, sung to the tune of The Real Slim Shady: I'm Pat Henry, the real Pat Henry,..., will the real Pat Henry, please stand up, please stand up... (Gotta appreciate the white rapper, Eminem --- if you excuse the explicit lyrics.) ;)
That is a very interesting link. Thanks.
What arguments are doubtful, hence inadvisable to use?
‘Natural selection as tautology.’
‘Evolution is just a theory.’
Its the return of the giant hogweed.
There is a neat irony, because PatrickHenry isn't the real Patrick Henry any more than I am.
I despised rap until about 4 years ago. Not the music for my generation (I'm 46). Then my nephew asked me what I disliked about it and I spluttered incoherent nonsense that made it quite plain that my comprehension of rap was approximately equivalent to the average creationist's comprehension of evolution. He sent me a CD that he'd ripped of 15 "best-of" Eminem tracks and I was absolutely sold on the utter brilliance of it after about 10 minutes and went out and bought all the Eminem CDs and a couple by Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg right away. Even my wife likes lots of the tracks (though she hates the bad language she loves the music and the rhythm and the verbal jokes), and she is much straighter than I am. I went and saw MM with my brother and my nephew at the Milton Keynes Bowl when he came to the UK for the Eminem Show tour, and I wasn't the oldest person in the audience (I suspect that honour went to my brother), but it was close.
I felt the same way about Eminem as you described. It took me only a couple songs as well to realize his brilliance. My kids couldn't believe it. I don't like his foul language either, but I guess that's part of his insecurity which is why he is endearing maybe.
Except for the raunchy stuff on his last CD, his duets with Dido and Elton John were amazing! (Stan set to White Flag)
Kinda like how the anti-evos who scream "strawman!" when you mention YEC beliefs go real quiet when the actual YEC'ers show up.
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