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Huntin' for Dinosaurs
Nov. 23rd, 2011 08:10 pmI'm not entirely certain what to say about this, mostly because I've been taught that if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. I often fail at this, but when it comes to respecting other people's beliefs, I try to stick to it.
But as a scientist and a geologist, I just boggle at this.
Apparently some theobiologist from a fellowship university in the States is planning an expedition to locate and capture some pterosaurs to prove us "disreputable evolutionist" wrong. Because apparently we've been "tricking the public into falsely believing that the Earth is billions of years old and that many animals which lived side-by-side with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden actually died millions of years before humans were created (or "evolved" in [our] twisted view.) By finding and displaying living examples of what the Evolutionists claim is impossible, [they] will sow the seeds of Evolutionism doubt, thereby making the public receptive to the truth of the Bible."
This is going to be like those "the world will end on precisely this date and on this time" sort of this, where you know that it's not going to happen, but just sit back to watch the train wreck happen and boggle at the people who genuinely believe in this crap. And you'd think after a while people would stop falling for it, but of course there's always an excuse why they were wrong anyways.
But anyways, my reaction can be summed up with three little letters: WTF?!
But as a scientist and a geologist, I just boggle at this.
Apparently some theobiologist from a fellowship university in the States is planning an expedition to locate and capture some pterosaurs to prove us "disreputable evolutionist" wrong. Because apparently we've been "tricking the public into falsely believing that the Earth is billions of years old and that many animals which lived side-by-side with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden actually died millions of years before humans were created (or "evolved" in [our] twisted view.) By finding and displaying living examples of what the Evolutionists claim is impossible, [they] will sow the seeds of Evolutionism doubt, thereby making the public receptive to the truth of the Bible."
This is going to be like those "the world will end on precisely this date and on this time" sort of this, where you know that it's not going to happen, but just sit back to watch the train wreck happen and boggle at the people who genuinely believe in this crap. And you'd think after a while people would stop falling for it, but of course there's always an excuse why they were wrong anyways.
But anyways, my reaction can be summed up with three little letters: WTF?!
