posted Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - 09:22 AM (#28854)
Article here [chicagotribune.com]
For examples of weapons-grade self-delusion, I particularly love the last two paragraphs:
For examples of weapons-grade self-delusion, I particularly love the last two paragraphs:
Thus, at the Museum of Earth History, Genesis dictates gentle, vegetarian dinosaurs sharing Eden with Adam and Eve, whose vaguely Polynesian appearance represents all races, according to a guide. Another exhibit confirms that dinosaurs, like all land creatures created on Day 6, were on Noah's Ark. The exhibit maintains that the ark could accommodate them because it was huge--450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high--and only smaller, adolescent dinosaurs were put on board.... Genesis as a legitimate scientific and historical explanation for man ...
Such literal interpretation is essential, Sharp said, because "if we lose Genesis as a legitimate scientific and historical explanation for man, then we lose the validity of Christianity. Period."
Jesus tapdancing Christ.
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I like the sense that a powerful man with a pony tail is lurking somewhere in the background of the site maintenance, ready to subdue criminals with a chair.
I like the sense that a powerful man with a pony tail is lurking somewhere in the background of the site maintenance, ready to subdue criminals with a chair.