Hi y'all - I do wish this stuff wouldn't get to me, but it does. I'll finish up writing to every paper in the bloody country. Anyway I dashed off this response to the paper using a fake local address - I deliberately put in some facts that he can argue with.
I respond to the your newspaper article by Tim McCool on the subject of Dinosaurs and floods. I find no scientific facts in that article. It is no more than a fairy story. Here are some facts easily verifiable on any scientific website. Dinosaurs were reptiles not mammals like whales. They weighed up to 600 tons each (think boat) and many ate meat (carnivores.) They lived from approximately 300 million years BCE to 50 million years BCE being finally exterminated by a toxic environment produced by falling meteorites at that time. Check out the big crater in Mexico. The earth is around 4.5 billion years old. Man evolved from a common ancestor with apes. The first upright biped ancestor of man was discovered in Ethiopia, Africa and name Lucy, dating to 3.2 million years ago, hence we are all African - Americans here. Man and dinosaurs did not exist at the same time. Do you believe in a flood that covered the whole planet and allowed 8 humans and all the animals alive to survive for 12 months in a floating boat? Here's a couple of things to think about. In order to cover the highest point on the planet, which is almost 6 miles above sea level, it would need to rain at a rate of 10,000 inches per day for 40 days. Have you ever experienced even 10 inches of rain in a day? Then you begin to realize! Mr. McCool alleges that Adam called all the animals. How long would it take for a Koala bear to travel (and swim) from a continent (Australia) that wasn't even discovered until the 17th Century, with no food en route as it only eats eucalyptus leaves, to the boat? In the 17th century it took clipper ships 2 years to make that round trip. Indeed how would fresh eucalyptus leaves be stored for 12 months? What about the food for all other animals, especially the alleged dinosaurs who could easily eat 2 tons of fresh meat per day? Even more important, what about the waste - you'd need a modern 2 acre waste disposal unit working flat out at the very least. I could bombard Mr. McCool with verifiable facts about fossils and carbon dating etc. etc. but I hope that won't be necessary. It doesn't take rocket science to know that this is all a fanciful story made up by primitive men with primitive fears and hopes. I hope the people of Alabama have progressed beyond Mr McCool's mindset. On Sep 20, 10:54 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
