You can’t make this stuff up. This writer for the World Net Daily proposes that evolution is a lie and biblical creationism is the truth, because… well, read for yourself:
The evolutionists insist the dinosaurs lived millions and millions of years ago and became extinct long before man walked the planet.
I don’t believe that for a minute. I don’t believe there is a shred of scientific evidence to suggest it. I am 100 percent certain man and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time. In fact, I’m not at all sure dinosaurs are even extinct!
Think of all the world’s legends about dragons. Look at those images. What were those folks seeing? They were clearly seeing dinosaurs. You can see them etched in cave drawings. You can see them in ancient literature. You can see them described in the Bible. You can see them in virtually every culture in every corner of the world.
Did the human race have a collective common nightmare? Or did these people actually see dragons? I believe they saw dragons — what we now call dinosaurs.
OK, so you believe completely in a set of millenia-old Hebrew fables called the Bible, and to back up your claim you cite centuries-old fables about dragons? Never mind archaeology, paleontology, physics, geology, chemistry, and a host of other peer-reviewed, rigorously-tested scientific experiments that all prove the age of the earth to be much older than the Biblically-ordained 6,000+ years. Nope, because people worldwide all described variations on the flying-lizard monster theme, creationism must be true!
What a twist this is to me and all the kids who grew up playing Dungeons & Dragons. Back in those days, the hypoChristians would condemn us for playing an occultish game that favored dragons, wizards, magic spells and other heretical folklore. Now those same dragons are the proof of God’s word! Amazing!
What I wonder, though, is how come people only described dragons and sea monsters? What of the stegosaurs? You think a bony-plated critter the size of a mastodon would engender a legend or a cave painting somewhere in history. Or the diplodocus — c’mon, a whale-sized sauropod with a fifty-yard neck? That’s got to garner some attention, even among the miracle-jaded ancients of Biblical times.
I also wonder just what Biblical explanation there is for the other D&D creatures that many cultures seemed to notice? What of ogres, trolls, minotaurs, satyrs, cyclops, elves, gnomes, faeries, zombies, vampires, and disembodied three-foot eyeballs? They got about as much press as dragons — er, dinosaurs — got in ancient mythology.
The funniest part of the article was this statement:
Evolutionists have put the cart before the horse. They start out with a theory, then ignore all the facts that contradict the theory. Any observation that might call into question their assumptions is discounted, ridiculed and covered up. That’s not science.
…which was written a few paragraphs after this one…
Since the evolutionists don’t want to tell me why they believe in their theory, I figured I would explain why I believe in mine.
The primary reason I believe, of course, is because the Bible tells me so. That’s good enough for me, because I haven’t found the Bible to be wrong about anything else.
Now, that wouldn’t be an example of starting out with a theory and ignoring all contradictory fact, would it?
There’s nothing deadlier than a pious idiot. Unfortunately, I don’t think these people are going away anytime soon, despite all our attempts at educating them out of existence. I wouldn’t mind so much if they didn’t have an annoying tendency to get control of school boards, complain to the FCC, and become leader of the free world…
