Re: a simple fine

Actually, there's plenty of debate within the scientific community about
evolution (all within evolutionary paradigms, of course), and the
debaters can be just as obnoxious and dogmatic as any parody of a
"religious" conjured up by second rate historical drama.

Of course, the stuff about the earth only being a few thousand years
old, well... :)

Jim

Omlor@aol.com wrote:

> Actually, Scottie, it's not worth bothering about.
>
> I made a passing reference to a play when I was describing the
> nonsense that took place between me and Daniel a while back and why I
> did not want to get sucked into it again. I referred specifically to
> two characters in the play.
>
> Daniel then cited a website called "answersingenesis" (get it?) where
> some guy bothered to list all the ways in which the play differed from
> the real, historical event which the play took as its starting point.
> This included deep, critical insights like "Reverend Jeremiah Brown
> and the prayer meeting are fictitious." Imagine, fictional characters
> in a drama.
>
> Anyway, this is all completely irrelevant, because I was saying
> nothing about the real trial or its real participants -- I was
> comparing the nonsense that took place between Daniel and me to the
> nonsense that takes place between the two characters in the play and
> remarking that we all know how the play turns out, much like our
> discussions, and that I was tired of playing Drummond to Daniel's
> Brady. If the shoe fits...
>
> In any case, for some reason, much like Brady at the microphone at the
> play's end, Daniel felt compelled to then offer us this long
> comparison contrast of the play and the real events. All from a
> creationist website, that elsewhere tells us:
>
> "Evolution is a predominant worldview that justifies the secular
> humanistic attitudes of our day, to the detriment of many nations
> (e.g. increased abortion, lawlessness, atheism, unbelief in the Bible,
> etc.). Secular evolutionists have built an entire worldview based on
> their faulty interpretation of the evidence. The facts of the real
> world actually conform to-and confirm-the Bible. Using real science,
> AiG's highly trained scientists have demonstrated that when properly
> understood, science confirms the origins interpretation built upon the
> Bible."
>
> There's lots more goodies on the site, like a logical gem called
> "Creation, Where's the Proof?" and a radio discussion available called
> "Sea Lions or Monkeys -- Who's the Smartest?"
>
> And there this page: http://www.answersingenesis.org/museum/ which
> links you to info about the upcoming "Creation Museum."
>
> It's almost too good for words. :)
>
> But finally, wonderfully, there is this, from the same site:
>
> "As you add up all of the dates, and accepting that Jesus Christ, the
> Son of God, came to Earth almost 2000 years ago, we come to the
> conclusion that the creation of the Earth and animals (including the
> dinosaurs) occurred only thousands of years ago (perhaps only 6000!),
> not millions of years. Thus, if the Bible is right (and it is!),
> dinosaurs must have lived within the past thousands of years."
>
>
> Man, will someone please stop filling this barrel with fish?
>
> Love ya',
>
> --John (happy as a thousand year old clam)
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