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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Oh sweet Jesus, no, please no. Oh god I don't know if I'l be able to
take this one. Hang on a moment while I get a Diet Coke and a fresh
green banana before I have fun with this propaganda piece.
Okay, I'm back. One of the keys to reviewing creationist crap is to have
some kind of feel for when one should make sure one's coffee or Diet Coke
has been swallowed least some idiot notion one comes across in the cult's
propaganda results in an otherwise uncontrolable spewing of one's
refreshment all over the document as one gives vent to one's amusement.
I must assert that since I've been at this work since about 1980 or so
I've managed to destroy only a few keyboards so far.
Here we have a piece titled, "Dragons in paradise." The piece starts
off quoting a bit of the classical Christanic mythologies, then morphs
bizarrely into a discussion about the popularity of dinosaurs.
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Which, I suspect, was also a Satanic conspiracy specifically designed
to deceive humanity and draw them away from the Jesus god. One of the
many amusing notions that Creationists have is that the dinosaurs that
experienced the last great extinction 65 million years ago were some
how contemporaries to humans which have only been around some 2 million
years.
Indeed I get e-mails from cultists demanding that there are dinosaur
tracks along side of human feet tracks along a riverbed in Texas --
Paluxy "mantracks" these morons call them. Those are debunked all over
the place so we'll not spend time here with them. Regardless movies
such as "Jurassic Park" must irritate the living what-else out of
creationist cults since they accurately depict the truth history of
the Earth.
The Discovery Cannel on cable television, incidentally, produced a
wonderful series called "Walking with Dinosaurs." The show didn't have
a single human in it and, to irritate creationists even more, the ages
of when the various species of dinosaurs once lived were given, they
were given accurately, not a single one of which were younger than
65 million years.
I suspect that creationists feel that such science programs are all part
of the evil, Satanic "evolutionist" conspiracy.
I like this meandering comment which quickly comes up, though:
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As if scientific facts needed spokesmen. But this is quite telling itself
to wonder if the cultist is going to advance a conspiracy theory here.
Presumably the Christian "Satan" god would love to finance these movies
the better to which deceive generations of humans and thus keep them from
buying into the ICR cult's bizarre notions. If I were the Satan god,
I'd throw a little money into Hollywood, sure.
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It's a Satanic conspiracy, right? There's also some irony here:
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Which includes the Chinese who's culture can be treaced back through time
as having existed well over 10,000 years. Creationists like to pretend
there was a "world wide global flood" which is more commonly refered to
as a "flood of ignorance" since there's no evidence for such a thing.
Soe how the Chinese never noticed such a flood. Neither did the
Egyptians which have a history going back further. You would think a
civilization would notice its own utter destruction fro a flood, huh?
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Have any evidence for this deity construct, George? You would think that
a god could have done something about all those scientific blunders and
contradictions in a book of mythologies "inspired" by them, huh?
It's a good thing these people's gods don't exist otherwise I'd expect
them to be mildly annoyed at such stupidity being attributed to them.
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The propaganda piece continues to try to claim that when some parts of
the classical Christanic mythologies refer to dragons, they're actually
refering to whales. Then the cult goes on to see what zological
records have on dragons, then winds up in an encyclopedia looking up
dragons.
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A rise or fall in the overall temperature of the planet will do, as
will the most commonly accepted perpetrator: killer meteor. Massive
outgassing of volcanoes will do as well however there's enough solid
evidence t-- even an impact point located -- to show that it was almost
certainly a metor impact.
But, since nobody knows for sure, the creationist says "god dun it:"
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No it couldn't. The fact that there's no evidence for such a flood
puts "paid" to such an idiotic notion. The fact that dinosaur bones
are sorted in the geological record according to definite dates as is
fully predicted by evolutionary theories also puts another silver
bullet through that stupid monster's heart.
If there was a "flood of ignorance," as it's called, dinosaur bones from
all different species which never lived together (having been seporated
by millions of years) would be piled up together. And in fact what we
find is that dinosaur bones are laied down in the geologic record
according to time, not according to random distribution caused by some
imagined "flood."
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Yes, but what kind of a frocking idiot actually believes that the
Summarian and Babylonian mythologies depicted in the classical Christanic
mythologies are supposed to be believed?
When you can find evidence for this flood of yours, do get back to us.
Thanks.
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<laughing> Yeah? Where are they hiding? Mars? Can you imagine a
scientist who actually has credentials and who actually pontificates
within his or her field of experience suddenly start spouting off this
occult crap? It wouldn't be unsurprising to find his or her colleagues
making inquiries as to whether their fellow scientist had acquired a
brain injury on their way to work, asking if maybe their colleague
woldn't like to go have a lie down -- or a trip to the emergency room.
<heh> The propaganda piece continues trying to claim that dinosaurs
lived "after the flood" they can't find evidence for, and that
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Good grief.
Eventually the cult gets back around to trying to equate dinosaurs
with dragons, quoting mythology which states that dragons will take over
the world and deceive humanity "any day now."
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Ah, finally the bizarre conspiracy theory all gets tied together. See,
movies which cover dinosaurs are all part of the Satan god's plot to
take over the world. Anyone buying any of this? Anybody wondering if
someone needs to be sedated and treated?
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Have any evidence for this bizarre notion, George? How many gods do you
have? You haven't provided evidence for this "Jesaus" got yet
and now here you are trying to create a "Satan" god, George. Is
there some reason why you haven't managed to find any evidence for any of
your invisible superfriends? Right.
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Ah, it's all a conspiracy. "Evolutionary pantheism." <heh>
I don't know but I don't think it can get any more stupid than that, folks.
Oh. Wait a minute. It can:
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Yeah, and it's called the "Republican Party." <smirk>
Jesus, what a nut!
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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 dinosaur mania of this generation is reaching a
crescendo with the release in June of the much-publicized
movie "Jurassic Park."
One wonders how many leading modern evolutionists were drawn
into evolutionism through their childhood study of dinosaurs.
Stephen Jay Gould, for example, testifies that he got his
start that way, and he is probably today's leading spokesman
for evolution.
What's going on here?
Actually, all the nations of antiquity...
...seem to have had a similar obsession with dinosaur-like
animals they called "dragons." The Biblical writers, inspired
by God...
...also wrote about dragons.
Many geologists have decided recently that the age of the
dinosaurs did come to a sudden end as the result of a
global catastrophe of some kind, although there is much
disagreement as to what type of catastrophe this may have
been.
A great flood, accompanied by tremendous volcanic eruptions,
with the implied resulting worldwide climatic change from
subtropical to the present latitudinal variations, could well
account for the vast dinosaur graveyards and trackways all over
the world.
The Bible, of course, describes just such a flood
that occurred several thousand years ago.
There are now thousands of scientists who have become
creationists and are convinced that the Biblical flood
provides a much better explanation than the geological-age
system for the phenomena of earth history, including the
dinosaurs and their extinction.
...would account perfectly for all the dragon stories,
many embellished over the centuries with legendary accretions,
but at the same time based on a substantial residuum of
fact.
They -- all the world -- will "worship the Dragon!" And
if we look carefully, we can already see the shadows being
cast before by these coming events, when we observe the
youth of the world so enamored of dinosaurs.
Satan is, indeed, still alive and well on Planet Earth!
Overt Satanism is increasingly influential, especially among
young people, and so are witchcraft, astrology, spiritism,
theosophy, and all the other occult "sciences," all of them
based squarely on the age-old deception of evolutionary
pantheism.
Furthermore, there are many New Age cults and even secret
fraternities and lodges that, at least in their advanced
degrees, actually honor Lucifer... as their highest object
of worship...
Creationist propaganda is already self-debunking." --
Fredric L. Rice
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