T. Rex Meets Biblical Text at Museum

The Los Angeles Times ^ | December 9, 2001 | STEPHANIE SIMON, TIMES STAFF WRITER

[StoneColdGOP]

Religion: New Kentucky center will present creationism as science, alarming experts.

FLORENCE, Ky. -- There is no mention of Noah's Ark in most science museums. No mention of the Tower of Babel or the Garden of Eden, either.

Instead, you get dinosaur replicas, fossils, models of spiraling DNA. And informational text promoting what millions of Americans regard as drivel: the idea that all life on Earth evolved over 4 billion years from genetic scraps.

[Delta-Boudreaux]

fyi

[Tennessee_Bob]

Hey there, nonbeliever...are you back to answer the questions you left open?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Godless Linguistics

[Tennessee_Bob]

Isn't it funny how the most educated among us (scientists etc.)

I take it that you're counting yourself as one of the elite? Come on down to my church here in Oak Ridge. I'll introduce you to some of the highly educated Christians we have here in Oak Ridge.

[VietVet]

Your arguments show a complete ignorance of genetics, or even of biology. Such 'refutations' of the therory of natural selection (not evolution) might have appeared valid in the 19th century, but make no sense in the 21st.

Evolution is a fact. That is, the older the fossil record, the less the animals and plants contained therein resemble modern species. Devote your time and energy to explaining that, and not to trying to deny someone else's explanation.

[Fabozz]

"I would only flag a moderator for disruptor tactics, excessive vulgarity, or obnoxiously expressed and excessively leftist ideology."

All of which "nonbeliever" demonstrated in his/her/its few hours of existence here last night.

[xm177e2]

If the park ranger insists the Grand Canyon was formed over millions of years, creationists take their kids aside to tell them a flood like the one Noah rode out on his ark could have carved the gorge in a flash.

How could a flood carve out the canyon without carving out OTHER canyons of similar magnitude everywhere else? How could a single flood build up the energy necessary to carve out all that rock?

[ag2000jon]

bump

[xm177e2]

"The Bible is not a science textbook. But where it touches on science, we can trust it. We make no bones about it: This is the truth."

Construction will be more expensive than previously thought, however. He's instructed the engineers to go back to the drawing board, using three as the value for Pi.

"Despite what some unbelievers say, that Pi is equal to some silly imaginary number between real numbers like three and four, I trust the Bible on this one. God is the ultimate engineer, he created the universe, I'll take His word over some point-headed scientist's, any day!"

[xm177e2]

If you find a way to say that more diplomatically, you'll be allowed to stay on FR. There are quite a few atheists here, but the same rules apply to us as everyone else: be a jerk, get the boot.

[jennyp]

... We here at the Institute for Catastrophic 'Riting have the answers! We know where the letters go when you make a contraction like "can't" from "cannot" (there's another missing transitional from you - anyone ever see a "can'ot" or a "cann't"? Of cours'not). Read our newsgroup alt.apostrophism for the real, uncensored story (which you certainly won't get if the robomoderation of t.o passes preventing us from spamming the TRUTH over all of Usenet).

Remember, Splifferd the @ says: A Mind Is A Terrble Thing To Baste - It Takes Forever And The Oven Is Always Hard To Clean Afterwards.
- from your Godless Linguistics link

BBSSSPPHHLLLLooooLLL!!!

[WFTR]

Science is a tool, not a religion. Tools help us to do all sorts of wonderful things, but they don't tell us who we are. Unfortunately, many people want science to tell them who they are, and they worship it with the same zealous fanaticism that every other religion inspires in some people. I find the whole story amusing, but the real lesson is that we need to get science back off the altar and back into the tool box. I once wrote a commentary on this topic called I Will Not Bow.

WFTR
Bill

[xm177e2]

And the real killer, i.e. the thing which simply kills evolutionism dead, is the following consideration: In real life, assuming you were to somehow miraculously evolve the first feature you'd need to become a flying bird, then by the time another 10,000 generations rolled around and you evolved the second such reature, the first, having been disfunctional/antifunctional all the while, would have DE-EVOLVED and either disappeared altogether or become vestigial.

This is silly. Animals can evolve something for one purpose, and then start using it for another. This is how some of the most radical evolutionary changes occurred.

Just look at bugs. They started out using gills to breathe underwater--and when the gills became a certain size, they began using them as wings. They were able to jump long distances, and later (as they evolved), to fly.

If you look at spiderwebs, you'll see many are vertical, but some are horizontal. The spiders originally ran around eating bugs. Then they started making horizontal webs to catch jumping bugs. Finally, when bugs started flying, the spiders evolved to make vertical webs.

[woollyone]

So, let's break this down...
If the universe had a beginning, then it had to have a Beginner (prime mover). The evidence leaves us with the following two options...

I believe that Something created something out of nothing.

You believe that nothing created something out of nothing!

Which view is more reasonable?

Question...If there is no God, why is there something rather than nothing at all?

[Pure Country]

The man who received a nobel prize for discovering the Big Bang theory, Arno Penzias, is an Orthodox Jew.

How can one discover something that never happened? Interesting!

[Doctor Stochastic]

Too many here (and elsewhere) just don't understand the Theory of Equilibrated Punctuation.

[ag2000jon]

This is silly. Animals can evolve something for one purpose, and then start using it for another. This is how some of the most radical evolutionary changes occurred. Just look at bugs. They started out using gills to breathe underwater--and when the gills became a certain size, they began using them as wings. They were able to jump long distances, and later (as they evolved), to fly. If you look at spiderwebs, you'll see many are vertical, but some are horizontal. The spiders originally ran around eating bugs. Then they started making horizontal webs to catch jumping bugs. Finally, when bugs started flying, the spiders evolved to make vertical webs.

I think that was one of the dumbest posts I have read all day...I hope that was supposed to be a joke.

Yea, big gills are great for flying and jumping real far. LMAO!!!!

[AnnaZ]

Hee hee... I LOVE this stuff. (Although I can't read through the replies... the venom of the mockers unsettles me...)

 

Here was my "courageous" (HAR!) thread: Evidence of Dinosaurs in the Twentieth Century   Post #82: links to the pictures. (The url changed.)

 

See ya soon!

[alcuin]

If the universe had a beginning, then it had to have a Beginner (prime mover).

Why?

[xm177e2]

You've seen fish flap their gills, haven't you? For the much-smaller insects, only a tiny amount of propulsion was needed to carry them pretty far, flapping their gills to gain distance while jumping is not silly, and as it would pose a benefit, they would evolve "better" gills over time.