CREATIONIST GALL

Creationists set no limits to their deceit. The other day I was looking over one of their web sites in which they were discussing how to get around the idea that so many feathered serpents, dinosaurs and lizards are being found in China that they’ve got to face the possibility that, perhaps, science is actually looking at fossils of missing links between dinosaurs and birds. The creationists use many tricks, such as casting doubt on the evidence, saying that it’s manufactured, even suggesting (without evidence) that there’s a factory in China which manufactures false fossils, or they use one argument to discredit one piece of data, then turn that argument on its head to discredit another piece of evidence. This flip-flop is exactly how they pretend to be scientific in order to argue against scientific data but, then, fail to use science to discredit the claim that there is a “spiritual world” out there beyond time and space. A claim for which there is absolutely no data. Creationists are extremely dishonest and duplicitous.

But the most worrisome lie for someone who understands sophisticated lying is their claim that the Bible has nothing to say about “feathered dinosaurs”; therefore, “feathered dinosaurs” must be okay with the Bible. I’ve got to admire their gall, turning ignorance into wisdom. Neither does the Bible say anything about computers or automobiles or gasoline. The list of things not in the Bible would run into millions of items. Now the reason these things aren’t in the Bible is that no one had heard of them in those days. The Bible writers were as ignorant of the modern world as a pile of turnips, but the creationist apologists turn that ignorance into a strength. They claim that everything the Bible writers didn’t know about, had never heard of, is, therefore, okay with the Bible. They pretend that the Bible writers knew about all these things but just didn’t bother to write them in.

How can you argue with such gall, such conceited and conscientious lying? See some feathered dinosaurs!


BUSH STALLS DEMOCRACY IN LEBANON

George Bush’s attack of Iraq is unsettling one Middle-Eastern democracy:

“The term of Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, a staunch Syrian ally, was scheduled to expire this November. The Lebanese Constitution prevents presidents from standing for consecutive six-year terms. Yet there had been rumors circulating for the past several months that Syria, which has many allies within the Lebanese political establishment, might wish to see the Constitution amended to allow Lahoud to stand again for a new term.”

As Bush sought to force his will on Lebanon, a “call went out to the members of the Lebanese government to convene 12 hours later. The next morning the Cabinet voted to amend the Constitution and extend the term of an overwhelmingly unpopular president who had himself publicly admitted that he had failed domestically, even though he had ‘succeeded in his regional strategic policies.’ ”

From the Lebanese Daily Star


BUSH STIFLES DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA TOO

Jonathan Alter in Newsweek, (Oct. 11, 2004, p. 29) writes that “. . . the Bush camp has told undecided voters hoping to participate in this week’s ‘town meeting debate’ that they are not welcome. Apparently the idea of the president’s having to respond to someone who hasn’t made up his [sic] mind is too intimidating for the leader of the free world.”


THE JINN GAME

According to Islamic belief, a jinni can take any physical form or possess a human, but according to Abu Yussuf, a Moslem from Michigan, who has caught the faith healing ways of American televangelists, "The powers I command can help people who are willing to pay thousands of dollars for a glance of hope."

Read more at An Islamic faith healer talks about his profession.
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