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From: Truth Seeker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 6:43 PM To: Barb; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Blair Scott; Blair Scott, American Atheists; Chris Owen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; James; Jill Arnold; John Patrick Lestrade; Jonathan Leigh; Justin Rigdon; Mason Hester; Micah; Micah Cochran; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Patricia Brown; Patty Lathan; Patty Lathan; Phil Moore; Richard A.; Robert Collins; Robert Harland; Shane Creel; Spence Kellum; Spring; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dr. Strangelove, or, how I learned to love evolution. Hey guys, I know it's been a while since y'all have heard from me, but when I read this article Friday, I knew that I had to send it out. Please forward to your respective groups. The following article entitled "Practical Christianity: What about the dinosaurs" was copied word for word from the "Inspirational" page of a small weekly newspaper named "The West Alabama Gazette" in the small community of Millport Alabama. I pass through this small town frequently while in route to other towns that my work takes me. However, I never knew they had a weekly paper until Friday, when I picked up a copy that a co-worked had brought to work, and was reading it at lunch. Consequently, the chuckles and groans that ensued as a result of me reading this article led to an interesting conversation with the girl who had brought the paper in, as she was curious as to why I was laughing...but that's another story (as is one of the other articles found on the same page entitled "Jesus for president" praising the new Roland Merullo book). I literally laughed out loud while reading it...but afterwards only felt sadness and anger. I fully intend on writing a letter to the editor, and, even though a great many of you are nowhere close to being in the coverage area of this paper, I think that we all need to write a letter. An article such as this (chock full of errors, misleading statements, and ignorance beyond imagination) should not go unanswered and unchallenged. We, as rational, logical, thinking individuals need to take a stand against such ignorance wherever we find it for the sake of our future. Please take full assurance that the article appears in the paper exactly as I have transcribed it here. I checked it 3 times (as did my wife), to be sure it was the original content of the article published September 17, 2008. The only thing that even resembled a "letter to the editor" policy is this: "Send us your letters to the editor. Just include your name and town. We will gladly publish them" Here is the publishers contact information: The West Alabama Gazette P.O. Box 249 466 Columbus St. Millport, AL 35576 Phone 205-662-4296 Fax-205-662-4740 e-mail <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office hours-Friday 8am to 5pm Deadlines News/Advertising- Monday 5pm The paper did not list any credentials or contact information for the author, so might I also suggest that you request your letter to be forwarded to the author if it is not published (especially if your letter is long). I do realize that this article contains so much idiocy, (my favorite part is his explanation of why dinos didn't eat humans) that it would take a letter several pages long to address everything, so I suggest that you simply hit the high points if you choose to write. Remember...this letter is pure nonsense, so don't make the same mistake. Respond to what you know, and use solid scientific facts to refute him. Granted, some of the claims he makes could easily be refuted by my 7-year-old, but, please, use solid facts when responding. This cannot go unanswered! So without further ado, may I present to you... Practical Christianity- What about dinosaurs? By Tim McCool Until I was 27 years old I had never heard this issue addressed from a biblical perspective. All my life-through school and college-I had heard the same old thing. It went like this-The dinosaurs lived 60 million years ago.(or more). I had never thought too much about it, but in the back of my mind it nagged at me because I didn't understand how this fit in with the Biblical timeline (6 days of creation, and that the earth is around 6000 to 8000 years old). When I finally heard a sermon preached on this, my eyes were opened. The preacher preached about how the geologic record, how it actually supports (scientifically) a great upheaval of sediment and mud about 4000 years ago, and that animals were actually buried in a cataclysmic event that literally left them mashed and crushed with food in their mouths! This is not fairy tale stuff like the false theory of evolution. This is factual scientific information. So why didn't I hear it growing up (or even now)? Because 2 Peter 3:3-7 clearly explains that most scientists willingly ignore the evidence of the flood. The lie of evolution is relatively new, and very few people know that it's falsely worshiped originator (Charles Darwin) is believed to have recanted his proposition before he died! So what about the title of my article? Where do dinosaurs fit in? Very simple. See dinosaurs (which were called "great whales" in the Genesis account) were created on day 5 of creation, about 6 to 8000 years ago. The land dinosaurs (what we know as T-Rex, Stegasaurus, brachiosaurus, ect.), were created on day 6 of creation, before man was created. I don't claim to have any great insight in this. The scientific information that I have reviewed (in support of the Biblical account) is available to anyone with an open mind. It only takes good old fashioned common-sense (and faith in God) to believe this. It takes much more faith to believe in a "millions of years" world view. Now I know the first question that comes to mind-why didn't the dinosaurs eat people like on Jurassic Park? Simple. Before the flood of Noah's time, God made a law that all men and beasts were "plant-eaters" (Gen. 1:29-30). God also said that Adam had dominion (or control over) the animals. So they came when he called them. They left when he dismissed them. How else could they have paraded by him when he named them? After the flood, there was a different law. Now the dread and fear of man would be on the animals, and the animals were "meat" for man (Gen. 9:3). It was a different world after the flood. Now dinosaurs (and lions, tigers, ect.) would eat men. Dinosaurs were still around in Job's time (see Job 40:15; 41:1). There is even some convincing evidence that a few dinosaurs were still around in Europe or England as late as the 11th century A.D. Ever heard the story of Beowulf? The animal described as Grendel sounds strangely (in some ways) like a dinosaur. I wonder why we never hear things like that on the news or in text books? May the Lord bless us to embrace the inspired Word of God and believe that science supports the Word of God. _____ Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows Live. See Now <http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093185mrt/direct/01/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
