The Palinotologists are back. A Kansas school district is refusing to back down from a plan for mandatory assemblies featuring a creationist group to explain the history of dinosaurs. Despite overwhelming data and testing showing the world is millions of years old, many creationists insist that Earth is only a few thousand years old. Dinosaurs represent a bit of a problem of course. The solution, as famously stated by that American intellectual Sarah Palin, is that men co-existed with dinosaurs. Hugoton Public Schools invited Creation Truth Foundation’s founder Dr. G. Thomas Sharp to teach the “Truth about Dinosaurs” at two assemblies. Hugoton Public Schools superintendent Mark Crawford however insists that students must hear about science from this biblically based group.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has warned the district that such assemblies cross the line into religious indoctrination. The group is committed to a biblical understanding of dinosaurs. The group features such sites as “Darwin was wrong” to correct fundamental misunderstandings of evolution. The group however denounces science as a threat to faith:
The basic reason for these problems, however, is the absence of belief in the Bible as basic truth, especially within the realm of science. If one cannot believe the Bible is true in one area, then the Bible’s authority in all areas is questionable. Therefore, believing in the scientific and historic truth of the Bible is pivotal to belief in God’s Word as absolute Truth.
Crawford refused to the cancel the event by insisting the group will not teach creationism. However, this is a religiously based group that rejects evolution and is committed to denying evolution. Why ask this group? The group treats dinosaurs as seductive items used by secularists (he spends a huge amount of time arguing with Jurassic Park, the movie).
In this video, Thomas works to convince people that there is no more objective basis for evolution than creationism so you can simply pick one over the other. It is full of misrepresentations of the geological and paleontological records. He insists that God made “God’s Gospel lizards” on day six and they were taken on the ark by Noah (but just “young folks” among the dinosaurs):
Thomas denounces those who ignore the key of Adam’s sin in this record as his concept of science and resisting the secular conspiracy to “dumb down” students. The use of such a science-denying group to teach about dinosaurs is shocking. Kansas has a huge dinosaur collection and countless experts. Yet, Crawford found this group?
It is difficult to find much of Crawford’s background beyond his degrees from Emporia State University, Wichita State University, and Southwestern College.
As for Thomas, his scientific knowledge comes from B.S. (Bachelor of Science) from Purdue University, obtained a Master’s at the University of Oklahoma, and a Ph.D from South Florida Bible College and Seminary. In the video above, Thomas asks the crowd if they ever wondered why science used Latin (and the metric system) rather than English to confuse and disadvantage laypersons in understanding it. The lecture turns back to the Bible to show that it was accurate and mentioned dinosaurs by other terms like dragons. He also tells people that there are “lots of evidence” of dinosaurs living with men that prove that they were created by God the day before the creation of man. The lecture is actually fascinating in how pseudo-scientific claims can be twisted to suggest an objective basis to disprove evolution and to show that the “biblical view” is the only true view.
Coming to a Kansas school near you . . .
Source: Raw Story
Bron says, “I am not the one who believes in government involvement in the economy.”
This statement makes no sense. From whom is the government going to buy the things it needs? China? You?
Not all government involvement in economics is “socialism,” but you wield this word with the same vigor as “communist” was wielded in the past, so it really is empty of meaning at this point. Like “hippie.” Or “tea partier.”
And you’d think GOD THE FATHER knew at least a little English…
“Believing in macro evolution takes more faith than believing in creation.”
No it does not. In fact, “macro evolution” (whatever this is) requires no belief whatsoever to exist. Science is not a “belief system.” It is a method for sifting facts for the purposes of, if one is supremely lucky, uncovering deeper truths of our existence. It does this by asking questions.
You want science to give you (false) answers so you can knock them down. This is not the role of science, to appease you or anyone.
If you want answers, see: Religion, which shall only be scoffed if brought into our shared public square and forced on us as the basis of our public policy. You are otherwise free to believe whatever you wish.
Deeper truths such as: the physical here-and-now you is vastly outnumbered by the cells which do not contain your genome. No belief is needed to discover this. But it does make previous instances of evolution seem like the kid gloves where True Believers are concerned.
… * com-pute-her…
…men will fall from their chair-riots…
… Phill colons…, a MM,ment in time, y is a second only 1!…
…an invisible touch-eh?x, III, I roamin IV ever: from GENISIS…
…the mighty oak ia a-ok…
…the great bear has come down…
…the sands of time are in dunes…
…a line has ben draw-in the sand by GOD from the beginning…
…may-be a date two figure…
…the church doors will Be slaMMed by the thou-sands…
…the earth Will open U P and swallow the U N holy…
…a sound will come from thee church’ss…
…people will come to spit on the cross…
…names will be changed…
…they will learn to speak with the cross prop-purr-ly from their own Mouth’ss…
…they will look upon the as cross as awe-full…
… the cross will be torn down and restored to it’s proper position that it was ore-rid-gin-alley inTENed…
… they will claim great rich’ss from the cross…
…people will pray for a great heeling…
…they will be full-filled by the cross thru the holy SPEAR-IT…
…the cross will be known in the end time…
…a wrap-sure that only GOD could think of…
…people will be looking up speaking and with the cross…
…bad language will becomeing from their mouth-ass-eh SIN…
…pet-tat-too-WEE-TWO the cross can scene and the spit on every time they speak…
…the cross will be spoke-an in many tongues…
…the true words of: “JESUS CHRIST!” WOOD BE KNOWN THREW OUT THE WORLD ! …
…at Judgement GOD will knot hear an Appollo-gee…
…watts Inna name has been?,he changed HISSSSS to screams.
To nit-pick: the peisiosaur was apparently a crocodilian, not an actual dinosaur.
Elaine:
I am talking about all the socialists, the private socialists, the public socialists, the corporate socialists, the wall st. socialists.
I am not the one who believes in government involvement in the economy.
Bron,
Are you talking about the socialists on Wall Street? The socialists who run corporations that pay no taxes? The socialist oil companies that are subsidized by taxpayers?
Mike Spindell:
the immaculate conception is similar to socialists believing there is no end to other people’s money. 🙂
Didnt mana fall from the heavens in the bible too?
itchinbay, As you apparently know, there is a KC, Mo. and KC, Ks. The former is the “real” KC. The latter is in Wyandotte Co. and a depressing town w/ little or no social redeeming value. Although, it’s more admirable than Johnson County, Ks. that produces people w/ their noses in the air even though they just started walking upright a couple generations ago.
We got a dog in the dogpac who was a Scientologist in a prior life as a human but in this life he professes no religious thoughts whatsoever. He will remain un named but he often preaches about life, liberty and pursuit of doggedness. When he lived in Kansas he says that there was some tribe of guys called Jay Hawks. He wont explain anymore. Were they from the dinosaur period? Inquiring dogs want to know.
This is not W.VA you BarkinDog, its KANSAS for dogs sake. Dorothy would not get confused here. Well, then the question does arise whether Kansas City is in Kansas or Missoura or both. And is not Wichita way out there south central yet southern just north of Okla City? And if so, were there not dinosaurs there recently?
Scientists employ Latin to confuse the masses. Here at the dogpac we employ PigLatin to confuse WordPress. So, these dumbupchucks with degrees in whatnot want to teach. There is an old adage which does not require much PigLatin. “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, teach teachers. Those who can’t teach teachers, preach. Those who preach eat peaches. Those who preach and eat peaches artFay in church.”
Remember this adage class. Class! You fell asleep again. Must be that mountain air in W.VA. vestem verem facet. Clothes make the man. Wear your bibs for the lecture.
I urge the students to show up with dinosaur outfits and Bibles.
I urge those students to show up with Tee Shirts with the statement:
On the Eighth Day God Created Dog
Believing in macro evolution takes more faith than believing in creation.
If you want to put your faith in a theory that makes time your god and the “geological column” your Bible, go ahead. But don’t scoff that someone has a different religious belief than you. And don’t fool yourself, evolution is a religion.
“Creation Science 101” by Roy Zimmerman
The article doesn’t say the age of the students but suggests all students. High school students may laugh/boo the man off the stage. Middle school students will have skepticism and confusion that will be straightened out at home. Some will end up believing the fiction, others will challenge it. Elementary students will believe it.
We tend to remember best what we learn at an early age and build on it. Let’s hope these students are able to recognize that science grows by leaps and bounds and that what they learned in middle school and high school get better explanations over the years. Science and Social Studies texts have changed the most since I was in school. Social Studies and History classes now teach what I learned as Current Events.
The Story of Creation
Ben Sanders, which creator is that? What evidence exists for a single creator of anything? Hint: allegedly “holy” books are not evidence.