The notoriously bizarre Institute for Creation Research (sic) cult
routinely publishes equally bizarre religious notions which they wish to
pretend are some how scientific. This text file takes some of the cult's
own bizarre publications and takes a look at them in extract to show just
how nutty (verging on the insane) these "Modern Day Flat Earth
Society" nuts actually are.
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Creationists seem to hate video movies about evolution and the history
of plants and animals with particular ire being reserved for movies that
cover the speciation of humans. In this propaganda piece we read:
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Good. The popularization of science so that the general public can share
in the joys of scientific discoveries is a good thing and something that
needs to be encouraged considerably. "Out of Africa" was wdely
popular regardless of whether the viewer believed in deity constructs or
not and, in fact, it was a good movie.
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I guess the ICR has yet to learn about Lucy. <smile>
The propoaganda piece continues with a fractured explanation of how DNA
can be -- and has been -- used to track the evolution of humans. The
cult starts talking about a computer program:
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Who presumes that?
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So obviously evolution doesn't happen some how. The ICR cult goes on
at some length to try to deny what DNA evidence has to say about the
subject; it's rather nutty but nothing seems amusing enough to rise above
the general crap level to warrant special notice. The cultist does
eventually get around to finishing off his or her hut rant with an
appeal to occultism:
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Have any evidence for that, George? Any at all? Before you can claim that
gods can have "words," and before you can claim that you have
those "words," you need to provide evidence that these gods of
yours exist, George. Then you may begin presenting evidence that these
"words" of yours were written by these god things of yours.
You may begin at any time.
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Which version? At least count there were two conflicting versions of the
Genisys mythology and there were at least six other creation myths in the
classical Christanic mythologies.
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That's strange... the fact of the matter is that the evidence continues
to point toward Africa as being the birthplace of humanity so one's
left wondering why this cultist has pronounced that horse as dead.
What's interesting is that the ICR cult didn't just simply demand that
"Eden" was in Africa and be done with their stupidity. Instead
the nut cult felt the need to try to pretend DNA evidence was faulty to
the point where it should be ignored in favor of demanding "gods dun
it."
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Apparently the gods of creationists feel that their followers are total
and complete idiots. If creationists had gods that were even marginally
brighter than said creationists, they would have written something that
makes sense.
Any text written by the creationist cult which may be quoted within this
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"You can lie about ICR all you want." --
Jason Daniel Henderson
"Thank you for your permission however there's never any need
to.
The "Out of Africa," "African Eve," or
"Mitochondrial Eve" theory, proposed in 1987, has
captured the popular imagination.
Cover stories in magazines gave graphic accounts of this alleged
"mother of us all," said to have lived about 200,000
years ago.
The researchers used a computer program designed to reveal
a "maximum parsimony" phylogeny. This would be the family
tree with the least number of mutational changes, based on
the assumption that evolution would have taken the most
direct and efficient path -- a rather strange assumption,
considering the presumed random and haphazard nature of
evolutionary change.
...It is now recognized that... an African origin for modem
humans is not preferred over the other continents.
The Bible is God's revelation to those created in His image.
Genesis is part of that revelation.
The failure of the "African Eve" theory is just another
illustration of the impossibility of constructing an
authentic record of human origins by scientific means.
It is for this very reason that God gave us an
authentic revelation of our origins in the book
of Genesis.
Creationist propaganda is already self-debunking." --
Fredric L. Rice
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