24 Jul 02
With people like these nitwits in Ohio, is it any wonder Jeff comes up
with "Darwinism is a religion?"
Saturday, July 20, 2002
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Dinosaurs subject of discussion
By Cindy Schroeder, cschroeder@enquirer.com
UNION
Organizers of the program running today and Sunday at Big Bone Baptist
Church in Union say the Answers in Genesis family conference is expected
to draw between 500 and 600 people within a day's drive of the Tristate.
They say it is part of an ongoing series of family conferences that the
8-year-old nonprofit ministry, now building a 50,000-square-foot museum
in Hebron, has offered throughout the country to "give (believers)
arguments to help debunk evolution."
Answers in Genesis followers believe the Earth's creatures were created
by God and were not the result of an evolutionary process as espoused by
scientists such as Charles Darwin.
"Our purpose is to equip Christians to be able to defend Christianity
against the evolutionary ideas (or) secular ideas that challenge the
Bible," said Ken Ham, executive director of Answers in Genesis and the
conference's keynote speaker. He said organizers will present what they
believe is the factual account of the history of the world as presented
in Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament.
Like those who promote Intelligent Design, Answers in Genesis followers
believe that all life was the result of a creator. However, they carry
that theory further, in that they maintain the creator "is the God of
the Bible and you can trust the God of the Bible," Mr. Ham said.
With the help of the writings of "Scriptural Geologists," Terry
Mortenson, a full-time lecturer with Answers in Genesis who has degrees
in theology and geology, will attempt to show that dinosaurs walked the
Earth with man.
Arnold Miller, a professor of geology at the University of Cincinnati,
challenged participants to "go out and examine the evidence themselves,"
rather than allow others to interpret the evidence for them.
"I'm all for Answers in Genesis having every opportunity to say what
they want," Mr. Miller said. "But I would challenge anyone who goes to
this conference to demand direct positive evidence that the creation of
life took place over six days in 4004 B.C. or whatever they say. People
should ask, "What's the evidence? Let's hear it.'
"It's one thing to provide misleading characterizations in scientific
debates. It's another to say that the answers (to issues such as how
life began) really are in Genesis."
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Creationists gather today
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As children create models of dinosaurs, their parents can search for
Biblical references to the giant creatures at a weekend conference
hosted by a pro-Creationist ministry that vows to "defend scripture from
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