I weep for the future of humanity.
On Sep 20, 8:54 pm, "Liz Purkrabek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> 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.
>
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