This is one of the sadder and scarier things I've read. Liz
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ornamentalmind Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 11:04 PM To: Memphis Freethought Alliance Subject: Re: FW: Dr. Strangelove, or, how I learned to love evolution. I weep for the future of humanity. On Sep 20, 8:54 pm, "Liz Purkrabek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forwarded message below. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
