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T. Rex Meets Biblical Text at Museum
The Los Angeles Times ^ | December 9, 2001 | STEPHANIE SIMON, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Posted on 12/09/2001 4:44:53 PM PST by StoneColdGOP

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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.


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1 posted on 12/09/2001 4:44:53 PM PST by StoneColdGOP
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To: StoneColdGOP
Just what America needs...more pseudoscience from religious whackos. No wonder our students ranked 23rd in science last year (among nations). After a few more decades of this "creation science" BS we might not even make the top 50. :(
2 posted on 12/09/2001 4:49:26 PM PST by Smith285
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To: Smith285; Sidebar Moderator
Just what America needs...more pseudoscience from religious whackos. No wonder our students ranked 23rd in science last year (among nations). After a few more decades of this "creation science" BS we might not even make the top 50. :(

To the person who adapted the screen name 'nonbeliever' earlier today: You were kicked off the forum once already today. Catch a hint. Go away.

3 posted on 12/09/2001 4:51:40 PM PST by Lazamataz
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To: Smith285; Khepera
Just what America needs...more pseudoscience from religious whackos. No wonder our students ranked 23rd in science last year (among nations). After a few more decades of this "creation science" BS we might not even make the top 50. :(

So science is always right? Just like the speed of light is always constant? (You lose)

There is far more evidence to prove creationism than there ever was for evolution. Even Darwin admitted evolution could not exist with an abundance of intermediatiary species (which there aren't). Just remember science is always right because it is "as we know it now"...

If science is so great why can't they create life? They say life began out of an "ooze", so recreate it...(clue: they can't, because it never happened that way)

4 posted on 12/09/2001 4:56:18 PM PST by wwjdn
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To: Smith285
Just what America needs...more pseudoscience from religious whackos. No wonder our students ranked 23rd in science last year (among nations). After a few more decades of this "creation science" BS we might not even make the top 50. :(

Please cite which test you have taken which advocates the creation science method. I'm sure you can.

5 posted on 12/09/2001 4:56:40 PM PST by AlGone2001
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To: Smith285
Tee hee...it's not just creationism, it's "Young Earth" garbage too. Should be good for a laugh, if talk.origins does a "tour" of it like they did CFR.

At least there's no evidence this clown is using public money for his little freak show....he can do whatever he wants, I guess.

6 posted on 12/09/2001 4:58:41 PM PST by John H K
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To: wwjdn
"There is far more evidence to prove creationism than there ever was for evolution."

ROFLMAO

7 posted on 12/09/2001 4:59:24 PM PST by Smith285
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To: StoneColdGOP
Sure, it might irk some of you people, but if we start mixing the Christianity with science, we'll be eating even more Asian dust (and the dust-eatin' has only begun). The Kid.
8 posted on 12/09/2001 5:02:25 PM PST by warchild9
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To: *crevo_list; longshadow; jennyp; VadeRetro; Junior
Whacko alert!
9 posted on 12/09/2001 5:03:35 PM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: wwjdn
"If science is so great why can't they create life?"

Ten thousand years ago people might have asked: "If science is so great, why can't it create fire? Or a flying machine? Or lightening?" (Etc.)

Just because we can't do something at the present time doesn't mean we should just say: "It's a mystery. Goddidit."

10 posted on 12/09/2001 5:04:40 PM PST by Smith285
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To: StoneColdGOP

Evolution, and the Redneck Watermelon Truck

The story goes that two old boys named Luke and Ray-Bob had themselves a truck and were buying watermelons in Fla. and Ga. for $2 and trucking them to Chicago and Detroit and selling them for $2. After awhile, they noticed that they were not making any money; naturally enough, they had a big business meeting and came to the conclusion that they needed a bigger truck.

Evolutionists, of course, are using time in precisely the same manner in which the two rednecks are using truck size, and there is no real reason for anybody to take them any more seriously than they would take the two rednecks.

Now, You couldn't easily prove that Luke and Ray-Bob couldn't possibly make money buying and selling for $2 since they could always say they merely needed the next size bigger truck. There is one thing which would really demolish their case however: that, God forbid, would be for somebody like Algor to get elected president and immediately outlaw the internal combustion engine; after THAT, guaranteed, nobody would ever make money trucking watermelons from Florida to Chicago and selling them for what they paid for them.

Likewise, If comebody could provide a coercive case for the fact that American Indians dealt with dinosaurs on a regular basis, then the time-frames which evolutionists so love to use as a magic wand to enable their doctrines would be demolished, the entire doctrine of evolutionism, broken. Not that there is any lack of logical proofs that no amount of time would suffice for macro-evolution but, without those time scales, no version of evolution is even thinkable, much less possible.


In this regard, evolutionists and geologists would appear to have developed a sort of a dinosaur-in-the-livingroom problem over the last few years. Take the case of Mishipishu, the "Water panther" for instance.

Petroglyphs show him with the dorsal blades of the stegosaur and Indian legends speak of him using his "great spiked tail" as a weapon. Remarkably, the Canadian national parks which maintain these pictographs are unaware of the notion of interpreting Mishipishu as a stegosaur, and refer to him only as a "manatou", or water spirit.

Vine Deloria is probably the best known native American author of the last half century or so. He is a past president of the National Council of American Indians, and several of his books, including the familiar "Custer Died for Your Sins", are standard university texts on Indian affairs.

One of Vine's books, "Red Earth, White Lies", is a book about catastrophism and about the great North American megaufauna extinctions which occurred around 12000 years ago (using conventional dating). In this book, Vine utterly destroys the standard "overkill" and "blitzkrieg" hypotheses which are used to explain these die-outs.

Vine informs me that "Red Earth, White Lies" is one of several books which arise from decades of research including conversations with nearly every story-teller and keeper of oral traditions from Alaska down to Central and South America. He tells me that, if there was one thing which used to completely floor him early on in this research, it was the extent to which most of these tribes retain oral traditions of Indians having to deal not only with pleistocene megafauna, but with dinosaurs as well. In "Red Earth, White Lies", he notes (pages 242-243) that:

Indians generfly speak with a precise and literal imagery. As a rule, when trying to identify creatures of the old stories, they say they are "like" familiar neighborhood animals, but then carefully differentiate the perceived differences. I have found that if the animal being described was in any way comparable to modern animals, that similarity would be pointed out; the word "monster" would not be used.

Only in instances where the creature bears no resemblance to anything we know today will it be described as a monster. Since no dinosaur shape resembles any modern animal, and since the reports are to be given literal credibility I must suggest that we are identifying a dinosaur. Thus, in the story of large animals at Pomme de Terre prairie in southwestern Missouri, a variant of the story suggests that the western animals were megafauna and the creatures who crossed the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and invaded the lands of the megafauna were dinosaurs. The dinosaurs thus easily displace the familiar, perhaps Pleistocene, megafauna and move west, where we find their remains in the Rocky Mountains today

In numerous places in the Great Lakes are found pictographs of a creature who has been described in the English translation as the "water panther" This animal has a saw-toothed back and a benign, catlike face in many of the carvings. Various deeds are attributed to this panther, and it seems likely that the pictographs of this creature which are frequently carved near streams and lakes are a warning to others that a water panther inhabits that body of water. The Sioux have a tale about such a monster in the Missouri River. According to reports, the monster had ". . . red hair all over its body . . . and its body was shaped like that of a buffalo. It had one eye and in the middle of its forehead was one horn. Its backbone was just like a cross- cut saw; it was flat and notched like a saw or cogwheel" I suspect that the dinosaur in question here must be a stegosaurus.


Then there is the case of the Brontosaur Pictograph on rough stone.

This petroglyph, in fact, first came to light with the Doheney Expedition to Java Supai, the report of which comes not from the National Enquirer, but from the Peabody Muscum of American Ethnology at Harvard University.

Then there is the case of the man and brontosaur petroglyph at the Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah:

A book on Indian rock art sold atthe park visitors center notes:

"There is a petroglyph in Natural Bridges National Monument that bears a startling resemblance to dinosaur, specifically a Brontosaurus, with a long tail and neck, small head and all." (Prehistoric Indians, Barnes and Pendleton, 1995, p.201) The desert varnish, which indicates age, is especially heavy over this section.

Then again, there is the picture which the people at Bible.ca snapped of Don Patten with the petroglyph of the triceroptops:

And the pterodactyle at San Rafael Swell in Black Dragon Wash, Utah:

Like I say, it's never been easy to be an evolutionist, and it's not getting any easier. The following little listing of resources might be of help to those seeking to catch up with events in the field:

Talk.origins/Sci.Bio.Evolution Realities

(becasuse most of the evoglop links typically posted on such discussions originate with talk.origins...)

Major Scientific Problems with Evolution

Many Experts Quoted on FUBAR State of Evolution

(Steve Jackson's Web Site)

Social Darwinism, Naziism, Communism, Darwinism Roots etc.

Interesting Creation/Anti-Evolution Sites

Catastrophism

Biogenesis


11 posted on 12/09/2001 5:05:28 PM PST by medved
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To: StoneColdGOP
So that everyone will have access to the accumulated "Creationism vs. Evolution" threads which have previously appeared on FreeRepublic, plus links to hundreds of sites with a vast amount of information on this topic, here's Junior's massive work, available for all to review:
The Ultimate Creation vs. Evolution Resource [ver 10.0].
12 posted on 12/09/2001 5:05:38 PM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: StoneColdGOP
both sides are wrong,you can`t deny that in the past the dinosaurs existed, how can the earth be only 6,000 years old?

13 posted on 12/09/2001 5:07:54 PM PST by green team 1999
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To: medved
interesting. Bump.
14 posted on 12/09/2001 5:08:37 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Smith285
 
Smith285 member since December 9th, 2001
 

15 posted on 12/09/2001 5:11:59 PM PST by JeepInMazar
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To: StoneColdGOP
Isn't it funny how the most educated among us (scientists etc.) accept evolution and the least educated (Bible-thumpers etc.) accept this "creation science" nonsense? Just food for thought...
16 posted on 12/09/2001 5:12:05 PM PST by Smith285
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bump
17 posted on 12/09/2001 5:13:46 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Smith285
"After a few more decades of this "creation science" BS we might not even make the top 50."

As opposed to what.....the last thirty decades of "evolution science"?

Cheese with that whine?

18 posted on 12/09/2001 5:14:15 PM PST by VaBthang4
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To: wwjdn
There is far more evidence to prove creationism than there ever was for evolution.

One source besides the Bible would be nice.

19 posted on 12/09/2001 5:14:39 PM PST by sakic
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To: StoneColdGOP
Those who are attracted to the teachings of creationism may find these sites of value:

The Earth is Not Moving!.
Earth Orbits? Moon Landings? A Fraud! .
Flat Earth Society Homepage! .
Kent Hovind's $250K Offer.
Christian Answers Network.
Creationists' Cartoons . For the children!
Institute for Creation Research.
The Current State of Creation Astronomy.
Answers In Genesis .

20 posted on 12/09/2001 5:21:24 PM PST by PatrickHenry
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