It's genuinely painful to read that stuff and even more painful to supress the urge to kill, (or at least viciously maim).

I need to go watch "Inherit the Wind" again.

By  Manchild, at 6/09/2005 12:53 AM  

wow, Interesting... I like that he says "If you remove the evolutionary framework, get rid of the millions of years, and then take the Bible seriously, you will find an explanation that fits the facts and makes perfect sense:"

yet other than the boat thing and the part about man being around, his answer is just a vague "Due to (1) competition for food that was no longer in abundance, (2) other catastrophes, (3) man killing for food (and perhaps for fun), and (4) the destruction of habitats, etc."

"Other catastrophes" - hmmm that one is tought to come up with...

By  Larakin, at 6/09/2005 8:38 AM  

I cant get away from it...

"In fact, there is no proof whatsoever that the world and its fossil layers are millions of years old." Im pretty sure we know (withing a few hundred thousand years anyway) how old most of these bones are.

By  Larakin, at 6/09/2005 8:42 AM  

Yeah, but that's only usin' tha' uppity science smarts. I'll take the word of a book written thousands of years ago over carbon dating any day.

Except of course, if Carbon is really hot.

By  Holz, at 6/09/2005 8:55 AM  

Ba-dum-bum-ching! Nice one Holz.

I too found that article truly painful.

The explanation I find hard to swallow is how a flood could kill every water-dwelling animal...except those that were on the arc. What, did Noah have an aquarium? And he knew how to measure salt content & pH so the animals he "saved" wouldn't die?

Don't even get me started about the plants. Apparently this boat had a nursery as well.

And with all the inbreeding afterwards, you'd think we'd have 50=% of our population consisting of retarded people.

By  Stan, at 6/09/2005 9:09 AM  

Zinger!

"Incest gets a bad wrap... look at Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel turned out okay"

By  Holz, at 6/09/2005 9:28 AM  

Point taken Melissa.

Oh and 50=% was supposed to be 50+%.

By  Stan, at 6/09/2005 10:12 AM  

Well, I have another book that is divinely inspired. God told me to write it and I did. And by an amazing co-incidence, within this book, (I'm quoting God, you understand) he says that the rest of my book is totally true as well.

What?

That's the same circular logic used by biblical literalists.

You don't mean there's some OTHER criteria for believing this crap that they're not telling us? Like it allows them to justify their own prejudices and hate?

By  Manchild, at 6/09/2005 1:58 PM  

What gets me about these intellectual zombies, what totally shorts out my empathy circuit, is how they stubbornly refuse to consider the idea that theories like the Big Bang and Natural Selection do nothig to refute the possibility of Yaweh. It only negates books written millenia ago by men that thought disease and catastrophic weather were divine punishments. When someone tells me they believe the bible was written or inspired by god and that it is irrefutable, I do whatever I can to get away from them.

By  Anonymous, at 6/09/2005 11:21 PM  

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