[A]t the Institute for Creation Research in northwest Dallas, a group of nine Ph.D.s from places like Harvard and Los Alamos National Laboratory say all that molecules-to-man stuff is nonsense. And they’re out to prove it.
The biblical story of Genesis is literally true, they say. God created the heavens, earth and life in six sequential days lasting about 24 hours each.
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“Our attempt is to demonstrate that the Bible is accurate, not just religiously authoritative,” said Henry Morris III, CEO of the nonprofit with a 49-person payroll and an annual budget in the $7 million range.
“The rationale behind it is this: If God really does exist, he shouldn’t be lying to us,” he said. “And if he’s lying to us right off the bat in the book of Genesis, we’ve got some real problems.”
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This spring, televangelist Pat Robertson said on the Christian-themed television show The 700 Club that people would “have to be deaf, dumb and blind to think that this earth that we live on only has 6,000 years of existence. I think to deny the clear [geologic] record that’s there before us makes us look silly.”
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Christian apologetics are in Morris’ blood. His father, Henry Madison Morris, founded creation science. A college professor and hydraulic engineer, he co-authored The Genesis Flood in 1961, which argued that the epic biblical rainstorm was responsible for the geologic signatures scientists use to support their theory of an ancient planet.
The earth doesn’t look old, creationists say, it looks flooded. Morris founded ICR in San Diego in 1970, as a research arm of the growing “young-earth” creationist movement. The nonprofit moved to Dallas in 2006 and now employs six members of the Morris family.
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[Jason Lisle, an astrophysicist and the research director at ICR] says his team analyzes the same data as secular scientists — but they interpret it differently, and often find flaws in accepted assumptions.
For example, Lisle cites the “spiral winding problem” as evidence that galaxies cannot be billions of years old. Essentially, he says if stars had been swinging around galactic centers for billions of years, they’d look more like massive phonograph records than what we see through telescopes, which are loose, hurricane-shaped spirals.
Or oceans — if they’d been around a billion years, they should be more salty. Or genetic mutations — if humans are hundreds of thousands of years old, there should be more genetic wrinkles in our DNA. Or dinosaur bones — if they’re millions of years old, scientists should not be recovering soft, protein-based tissue in them.
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“Evolutionists say in response to this, ‘We have to rethink this process of fossilization,’” Sherwin said.
“But our rejoinder is, ‘What’s to rethink? It looks like this creature died perhaps centuries ago.’”
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Dallas researchers are out to scientifically prove the biblical version of creation
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Those with faith don't need proof. Those without faith won't buy their faith-based pseudo-science. So it means that $7M/year revenue equates to about $3.5M in 49 salaries for doing fuckall to advance science. Bravo.
(All in addition to Henry Morris III, CEO ($169K), John Morris, President ($120K), and Eileen Turner, CFO ($102K))
So I wouldn't say this is about religion so much as it is about a supplemental income.
(All in addition to Henry Morris III, CEO ($169K), John Morris, President ($120K), and Eileen Turner, CFO ($102K))
So I wouldn't say this is about religion so much as it is about a supplemental income.
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And $7 million of charitable tax deductions, which is likely around $2.5 million in lost tax revenue that could be devoted to real science.
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What I like is that the biblical version uses a earth centric time unit, like God decided (or it just worked out nicely) that he's going to get things done in a timeframe that will be unique (you know what I mean, there are a quadrillion examples out there, all different) to Earth. Because we're special of course, despite the quadrillion other floating masses spinning and rotating around stars.
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If Pat Robertson is telling you that you're applying Christian text too literally and look nutty, you should probably stop and do a hard reassessment of yourself.
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Bingo.El Guapo wrote:If Pat Robertson is telling you that you're applying Christian text too literally and look nutty, you should probably stop and do a hard reassessment of yourself.
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Apparently this just goes to show that having a Ph.D. from Harvard doesn't mean you're smart.
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When folk like this 'set out to prove something' they usually succeed. Funny how that works.
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Bilking the faithful out of millions to ghost payroll your family doesn't mean you're not smart.gilraen wrote:Apparently this just goes to show that having a Ph.D. from Harvard doesn't mean you're smart.
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No, you just have to be smarter than they are...LawBeefaroni wrote:Bilking the faithful out of millions to ghost payroll your family doesn't mean you're not smart.gilraen wrote:Apparently this just goes to show that having a Ph.D. from Harvard doesn't mean you're smart.
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Cleverness is the most lucrative form of intelligence.LawBeefaroni wrote:Bilking the faithful out of millions to ghost payroll your family doesn't mean you're not smart.gilraen wrote:Apparently this just goes to show that having a Ph.D. from Harvard doesn't mean you're smart.
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I'm not a young earther by any means but this isn't really much of an argument. If the days are symbolic units of time, and since the Bible was written to humans (for which the rotational period of Alpha Centauri would have little meaning), the use of days as a time period is both reasonable and logical.GreenGoo wrote:What I like is that the biblical version uses a earth centric time unit, like God decided (or it just worked out nicely) that he's going to get things done in a timeframe that will be unique (you know what I mean, there are a quadrillion examples out there, all different) to Earth. Because we're special of course, despite the quadrillion other floating masses spinning and rotating around stars.
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Or could be devoted to buying Skittles. Or could be devoted to nothing. It's not like federal funding for research is going to go up if these deductions weren't allowed.Zarathud wrote:And $7 million of charitable tax deductions, which is likely around $2.5 million in lost tax revenue that could be devoted to real science.
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Grifman, that's putting the cart before the horse. A day requires the sun and earth. There was no sun until "day 4".
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God decided to give Earth the exact rotation and orbit to coincide with each major accomplishment. It's not that everything took 1 day each, it's that everything took the same amount of time so God decided to make Earth's days match up. Q.E.D.Isgrimnur wrote:Grifman, that's putting the cart before the horse. A day requires the sun and earth. There was no sun until "day 4".
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The whole point of YE creationism is that creation doesn't proceed from physical laws; it's the other way around. God didn't do his work, measure each stage, and then call that length of time a day. He could have done the whole thing in a microsecond, but he chose otherwise. The fact that this span coincides with what our pious ancestors considered a week is simply a sign of their closer relationship to the Divine.
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I don't think anyone has an issue with the days being symbolic units. I think they just have an issue with them being literal units.Grifman wrote:I'm not a young earther by any means but this isn't really much of an argument. If the days are symbolic units of time, and since the Bible was written to humans (for which the rotational period of Alpha Centauri would have little meaning), the use of days as a time period is both reasonable and logical.
Of course I have a problem with there being units at all. I feel like an omnipotent creator of the universe should be able to just make it so, instantaneously.
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That's a totally different issue. That said, this again goes to symbolism, rather than literalness, so you're only making my point for me.Isgrimnur wrote:Grifman, that's putting the cart before the horse. A day requires the sun and earth. There was no sun until "day 4".
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Again, only if you are woodenly taking the text literally. A day could mean a "period of time".GreenGoo wrote:God decided to give Earth the exact rotation and orbit to coincide with each major accomplishment.Isgrimnur wrote:Grifman, that's putting the cart before the horse. A day requires the sun and earth. There was no sun until "day 4".
Again, literalism. You seem to be repeating the same error again and again.It's not that everything took 1 day each, it's that everything took the same amount of time so God decided to make Earth's days match up. Q.E.D.
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But where's the fun in that? God can choose to create the world however he wanted. Maybe the process was as much for us to learn and understand and find amazement in as much as anything else.RunningMn9 wrote:Of course I have a problem with there being units at all. I feel like an omnipotent creator of the universe should be able to just make it so, instantaneously.
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Did you read the OP? I'm not the one making that mistake.Grifman wrote:Again, literalism. You seem to be repeating the same error again and again.
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I prefer my omnipotent deities to be efficient.Grifman wrote:But where's the fun in that? God can choose to create the world however he wanted. Maybe the process was as much for us to learn and understand and find amazement in as much as anything else.
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Only if efficiency is your godRunningMn9 wrote:I prefer my omnipotent deities to be efficient.Grifman wrote:But where's the fun in that? God can choose to create the world however he wanted. Maybe the process was as much for us to learn and understand and find amazement in as much as anything else.
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Looks like Richard Dawkins is trying to imitate the Creation Institute folks:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/928 ... rd-dawkins
Who's bilking the faithful now?
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/928 ... rd-dawkins
Will there be the same level of umbrage at this?The Richard Dawkins website offers followers the chance to join the ‘Reason Circle’, which, like Dante’s Hell, is arranged in concentric circles. For $85 a month, you get discounts on his merchandise, and the chance to meet ‘Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science personalities’. Obviously that’s not enough to meet the man himself. For that you pay $210 a month — or $5,000 a year — for the chance to attend an event where he will speak.
When you compare this to the going rate for other charismatic preachers, it does seem on the high side. The Pentecostal evangelist Morris Cerullo, for example, charges only $30 a month to become a member of ‘God’s Victorious Army’, which is bringing ‘healing and deliverance to the world’. And from Cerullo you get free DVDs, not just discounts.
But the $85 a month just touches the hem of rationality. After the neophyte passes through the successively more expensive ‘Darwin Circle’ and then the ‘Evolution Circle’, he attains the innermost circle, where for $100,000 a year or more he gets to have a private breakfast or lunch with Richard Dawkins, and a reserved table at an invitation-only circle event with ‘Richard’ as well as ‘all the benefits listed above’, so he still gets a discount on his Richard Dawkins T-shirt saying ‘Religion — together we can find a cure.’
The website suggests that donations of up to $500,000 a year will be accepted for the privilege of eating with him once a year: at this level of contribution you become a member of something called ‘The Magic of Reality Circle’. I don’t think any irony is intended.
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I read the OP but you seem to be insisting that this is the only way to read the account in Genesis, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding you.GreenGoo wrote:Did you read the OP? I'm not the one making that mistake.Grifman wrote:Again, literalism. You seem to be repeating the same error again and again.
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From who? Me? Yes, that sounds like one of the most absurd things I've seen in a long while. Almost like it's meant to be a satirical take on Scientology.Grifman wrote:Will there be the same level of umbrage at this?
And in banks across the world
Christians, Moslems, Hindus, Jews
And every other race, creed, colour, tint or hue
Get down on their knees and pray
The raccoon and the groundhog neatly
Make up bags of change
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Well he's slowly drifting out of range
Christians, Moslems, Hindus, Jews
And every other race, creed, colour, tint or hue
Get down on their knees and pray
The raccoon and the groundhog neatly
Make up bags of change
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I believe Fox News is our go-to organization for taking satire literally and then taking umbrage.RunningMn9 wrote:From who? Me? Yes, that sounds like one of the most absurd things I've seen in a long while. Almost like it's meant to be a satirical take on Scientology.Grifman wrote:Will there be the same level of umbrage at this?
As for me, I don't take umbrage. I think the idea is hilarious. The people that should be taking umbrage are the people financing this.
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The only people insisting on a literal translation are those who insist on a literal translation (like the people in the op of this thread). I was mocking the idea.Grifman wrote:I read the OP but you seem to be insisting that this is the only way to read the account in Genesis, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding you.GreenGoo wrote:Did you read the OP? I'm not the one making that mistake.Grifman wrote:Again, literalism. You seem to be repeating the same error again and again.
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OK State Capitol Ten Commandments vandalized:
A man has been taken in for mental evaluation after allegedly vandalizing the Ten Commandments monument at the Oklahoma State Capitol.
U.S. Secret Service Agents say it all started after a man walked into the Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City Friday morning making strange threats against the President and Federal Government.
Agents say he then admitted to them that he crashed his car into the Ten Commandments monument at the Capitol, then left his damaged car and walked to the Federal Building.
The Secret Service says the man told them that Satan made him crash his car into the statue.
He also told agents that Satan told him to urinate on the statue.
According to investigators, the man says he is bipolar and had been off his medication for quite some time.
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What a piss poor excuse.He also told agents that Satan told him to urinate on the statue.
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Alex Malarkey, subject of The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven, states that he made it all up:
Nearly five years after it hit bestseller lists, a book that purported to be a six-year-old boy's story of visiting angels and heaven after suffering a bad car crash is being pulled from shelves. The young man at the center of The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, Alex Malarkey, said this week that the story was all made up.
The book's publisher, Tyndale House, had promoted it as "a supernatural encounter that will give you new insights on Heaven, angels, and hearing the voice of God."
But Thursday, Tyndale House confirmed to NPR that it is taking "the book and all ancillary products out of print."
The decision to pull the book comes after Alex Malarkey wrote an open letter to retailer LifeWay and others who sell Christian books and religious materials. It was published this week on the Pulpit and Pen website.
"I did not die. I did not go to Heaven," Alex wrote. He continued, "I said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention. When I made the claims that I did, I had never read the Bible. People have profited from lies, and continue to. They should read the Bible, which is enough. The Bible is the only source of truth. Anything written by man cannot be infallible."
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So it was all just a bunch of...
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Yes, ironic, isn't it?Alefroth wrote:So it was all just a bunch of...
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Honestly, I liked him better as the hugged-by-an-angel kid.Malarkey wrote: "The Bible is the only source of truth. Anything written by man cannot be infallible."
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Isn't his statement self-contradictory? How can he write that the bible is the only source of truth and then say anything written by man is fallible?Holman wrote:Honestly, I liked him better as the hugged-by-an-angel kid.Malarkey wrote: "The Bible is the only source of truth. Anything written by man cannot be infallible."
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Naw. The claim is that the Bible is our only reliable access to *ultimate* truth. All else (including his own opinion there) is to be judged by its accordance with biblical truth. He believes that what he says is true because it does not contradict [his reading of] the Bible.Moliere wrote:Isn't his statement self-contradictory? How can he write that the bible is the only source of truth and then say anything written by man is fallible?Holman wrote:Honestly, I liked him better as the hugged-by-an-angel kid.Malarkey wrote: "The Bible is the only source of truth. Anything written by man cannot be infallible."
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Moliere wrote:Isn't his statement self-contradictory? How can he write that the bible is the only source of truth and then say anything written by man is fallible?Holman wrote:Honestly, I liked him better as the hugged-by-an-angel kid.Malarkey wrote: "The Bible is the only source of truth. Anything written by man cannot be infallible."
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LDS Church backs LGBT nondiscrimination and religious freedom bills
When the LDS church starts going soft on their bigotry towards the LGBT community you know the political zeitgeist has shifted.
When the LDS church starts going soft on their bigotry towards the LGBT community you know the political zeitgeist has shifted.
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It's progress, but the "religious freedom" aspect is still troubling.
Even with the new nondiscrimination position, they still want to be seen as victims.But the church also complained of people being branded “bigots” for speaking for their faith.
“When religious people are publicly intimidated, retaliated against, forced from employment or made to suffer personal loss because they have raised their voice in the public square, donated to a cause or participated in an election, our democracy is the loser,” said Elder Dallin Oaks, a member of the church’s Quorum of Twelve Apostles.
It's almost as if people are the problem.