excerpt from “There Go the Dinosaurs”

My friend Mark Miller pointed me to this fascinating cartoon that offers a thorough explanation of how creationists explain dinosaurs. I’ve heard a lot of this before, but never so succinctly! This cartoon comes courtesy of Chick Publications, “publishers of Gospel publications for over 40 years” (according to their website).

Jack Chick, the publisher, has an interesting take on other religions. He states on his site that Roman Catholicism is not Christian, and that Allah was worshipped as a pagan moon god long before Mohammed came on the scene. Clearly there are no contradictions within his own personal vision of Christianity.

He also states on his website “God in His Singular providential care has KEPT HIS WORD all through the ages, right down to the present day as found in the King James Version. We consider this version our final and absolute authority, above and beyond all other authorities on earth.” Now, whether you are religious or not, this seems a bit unlikely to me considering how the book was pieced together over a huge amount of time and translated from a variety of languages. I guess this explains dinosaurs though.

To read more, visit the original cartoon here.

I meant to write a longer post today, but I didn’t have time. You’ll have to amuse yourself with the unicorn museum, courtesy of Dinosaurs: a creationist’s fairytale. Be sure to vote on your favorite unicorn billboard!
I think this is my new favorite website.

I need to point you to a link to another blog that chronicles the worst museum dinosaur exhibit of all time. Of course, it is at the Creation Museum, which I have mentioned in earlier posts. I hate to even link to it, but you might want to see Ken Ham’s own site (part of the answersingenesis.com monstrosity) to learn even more about Dinosaur Independence Day.

As if enough things aren’t going wrong in the world, it looks like the populations of many common types of birds are disappearing in North America. In an article titled “Populations of 20 Common Birds Declining” the Associated Press is reporting that birds as familiar as the grackle and the meadowlark are seeing huge declines. The numbers of 20 different birds are at least half what they were in 1967. Greg Butcher of the National Audubon Society authored the study that the article draws upon and he is quoted as saying.

“Many of the birds that are disappearing are specialists, while the thriving ones are generalists that do well in urban sprawl and all kinds of environments, Butcher said. In a way it’s the Wal-Mart-ization of America’s skies, he said.”

If you want to read more about this issue, I highly reccomend the Audobon Society’s website. They have a page about declining bird populaions.

On a lighter night, this image caught my eye today. Monty Propps, a contributor to B3ta.com created it and I think it is great occaision to mention how much support there is on the internet for the concept that dinosaurs and humans coexisted on Earth within the past few thousand years. In fact, some creationists have pointed out that that Noah brought them along on the Ark! If you’ve never been to the Answers in Genesis website you are really missing out.

I never would have known that it’s entirely possible for Noah to have brought along enough animals to repopulate the earth without reading this site. Because the ark held roughly the same volume as 522 stock railroad cars, each of which can hold 240 sheep, it would have been EASY for Noah to pack a couple of dinosaurs down there below deck.

“Without getting into all the math, the 16,000-plus animals would have occupied much less than half the space in the Ark (even allowing them some moving-around space).”- answersingenesis.com

I think someone should offer a prize to take this site up on their statement that “a Christian doesn’t have to have a blind faith to believe that there really was an Ark. What the Bible says about the Ark can even be measured and tested today.” Get some wood, nails and about 240 railroad cars full of animals…