Dinosaurs of Eden Part 4
From EvoWiki
One Big Major Joke!
Now we get to the section of the book that's filled with blatant hypocrisy and venomous lies that spans from pages 44 to 53. On page 44, Ham blames the effects of sin, the mythic curse of earth, and the fabled global flood (one of his idiot pleadings to emotional ignorance, I guess.) on the man and beast's competitiveness over space and the extinction of many animals species brought on by man and encourages his followers on page 45 to ask a scientist a simple question about wildlife conservation. It's important to support wildlife conservation for many animals, because man is driving many animals into extinction for a lot of reasons, such as destroying their habitats, poaching, pollution, overgrazing, and other atrocities man has committed against the animal kingdom for many years. Over 90% of all animal life is now extinct mainly due to natural causes, like climatic and environmental changes for instance. In recent years, however, many animals are endangered of becoming extinct all because of one special primate, man. Because of this, laws had to be passed and enforced to protect animals like the bison from extinction. Boundaries had to be set up that prevent man from settling into animal territory, animal sanctuaries and breeding grounds had to be built to breed animals to preserve the race; even the rarest of types, and educating the people on how important is it to protect and preserve wildlife for many future generations to come. This answers the next question shown on page 46, where at the very top of the page, there is a scene, where the kids are observing a pair of African type natives spearing a Pachyrhinosaurus from almost behind a palm tree.
The question was answered in the book in the way that it implies that the scientist is getting very annoyed or agitated by the questions being asked to him. This is what Ham wants you to believe what scientists act like when it comes to responding to questions being asked like this. But in reality, NO true scientist ever acts that way.
Neither will he/she be clueless when the inquirer asks him/her to explain about what could have happened to the dinosaurs. Ham thinks the things that are going on on earth such as man and animals killing each other and themselves is the very same way the dinosaurs have died out, but only just hundreds of years ago, not millions of years ago, which, to him, is no mystery about it. It is no mystery about it...but a major joke worth a million laughs!
Claiming sin, curse, flood, and man is to be blamed for the extinction of the dinosaurs is a joke! It's also wrong too. Creationists like Ham believes that dinosaurs became extinct just before the 16 and 1700's just when fossils are started to be discovered and studied realisticly for the first time. However, if dinosaurs did became extinct hundreds of years ago, then where are the valid, non-fabricated, non-twisted full text writings and accounts of dinosaurs being killed by humans and/or animals dating back hundreds of years ago such as during the Renaissance era and the Roman Empire for instance? Where are the dinosaur bones dated back to the time of major events such as the Great Discovery of The New World made by many a great European explorers like Christopher Columbus for example, American Revolution, the Crusades, and the War of the Roses? Where are the skeletal remains of dinosaurs with injuries inflicted by a spear attack? Not to mentioned those with the heads of spears embedded inside of them? Where are the bones of dinosaurs and man found buried together side by side? Just like before, the answer is nowhere! Ham like all of the other YECs has made it all up and claim it falsely to be true. Dinosaurs actually died out 65 million years ago, leaving behind avian descendants we called birds. The cause of their extinction is debatable, but when it comes to the many dinosaur extinction theories that's out there, the verdict is STILL out on how the dinosaurs become extinct and it lies beneath the Gulf of Mexico.
An Out-of-Context Verse
Page 47 on the upper left hand corner of the image of a dying Diplodocus, there is a Bible verse (Romans 8:21) that actually, when put in full context and interpret correctly, refers to the unredeemed people who will be delivered from the bondage of sin into the Kingdom of God as a free people when they chose to accept God's Message of Hope being delivered to them.
Ham's Hate Smears
Pages 48 and 49 shows a whole list of filthy lies and smears of hate Ham gives out claiming that birds are not descendants of dinosaurs, evolutionists are wrong in everything, they are all atheists, etc. Ham falsely states that the 'evolutionists' (an ad hoc word invented by YECs who use it to described all those who embrace evolution, old earth concept, and appose YECism.) have all been brainwashed to believe in the so-called 'molecules-to-man' evolution. A real hypocritical lie! It is really Ham and the other YECs who are brainwashed themselves and is brainwashing others; preaching this doctrinal tripe to get people to be just as brainwashed as they are. Yet they turned around and hypocritically accused the 'evolutionists' of doing the exact same thing. Ham gives out strawman claims of what evolution is and says that the advocates of evolution teaches that dinosaurs 'allegedly' evolved around 200 million years ago and died out 65 millions of years ago. Note the word 'allegedly.' Note how the YECs use the words 'allegedly,' 'allege,' and 'alleged' in their writings. Note how they are using those words to make their followers think the 'evolutionists' are without proof. That is what those words mean. It means 'to be without proof' The creationists are indeed without proof when they claimed that dinosaurs are created alongside of man 6,000 years ago and yet not a trace of evidence for it has ever been found.
Evolutionists Are With Proof
Does this mean that evolutionists are without proof? Ham would like to have you think so. Unfortunately for him, it is not the case. 'Evolutionists' DO have proof of this. Proof of the fact that dinosaurs did lived and died millions of years ago before there were any people on earth. They have the most accurate dating methods they have. Radioisotopes, Rock layers that represents a period of time each, dinosaur bones and fossils being only found withing the Mesozoic strata, you cannot say that the statements made by 'evolutionists' are all without proof and get away with it, while in fact they DO! Ham claims 'evolutionists' don't have a time machine. So what! Neither does the YECs either but do they care?
Ham's Falsehood About Archaeopteryx
Ham states that since they weren't there to witness it happening, all that they could do is make educational guesses on what do they think happen like this scientist is portrayed to do in the picture above on page 48.
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Notice very closely the fossil the scientist is looking at that's lacking the saurischian hip we find in the real Archaeopteryx fossil.
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Now here above is the actual image of the famous Archaeopteryx fossil with the saurischian hip. Proof that just like many toy companies out there that make dinosaur toys for children, YECs never got their dinosaur imagery right no matter what they do.
There is a caption found next to the image that gives out a falsehood about Archaeopteryx being just a bird, while in fact this 150 million year old Jurassic dinosaur is actually a Theropod with dino-like feet, head, tail, and a saurischian hip to boot. Look closely at the dinosaur's anatomy in the actual photo below and you will see that this dinosaur is truly is 50% dinosaur and 50% bird.
The Fossil record IS A History Book
Ham states that all that they have is living plants and animals and dead plants and animals they find in the fossil record when they dig up fossils from the ground. Ham states that they don't dig up a history book that tells them what happened....OR DO THEY?
The whole fossil record IS a history book that scientists are digging up. Each layer of sedimentary rock is, in a very special way, a chapter of a naturally made history book where it tells all about the natural history of planet earth and all life within. The age of the dinosaurs is a major section of the history book that contains 3 chapters, the Triassic Chapter, the Jurassic Chapter, and the Cretaceous Chapter. Each chapter is many pages long. As scientists are 'flipping' through the 'pages' of this special book to read and get information from it (fossils, rocks, etc.), they are learning all about earth's history of life and how it became what it is today. In many cases, in some places, the book is kinda worn and well used due to wind, rain, and erosion, but in other cases, in other places, the book is complete and people can look, see, get information, and read about the true history of earth. The history YECs deliberately chose to ignore. Instead, they rely on their paper idol and their interpretations of it to find their own version of the true history they never find. Seeing this, they make up lies and say their falsehoods, fallacies, Faux Bibles, and stupid lies is all true history while in fact they are not.
Ignorance of Transitional Forms
Ham, like all YECs, ignore and deny transitional forms, claiming they are non-existent (Tiktaalik debunks this!). The animals have always been the animals. Dinosaurs have always been dinosaurs. The birds have always been birds, etc, etc. Ham claims scientists have found no transitional fossils at all. This is a blatant lie that has been constantly refuted time and time again, including the discovery of Tiktaalik. Scientists do found mounds of transitional forms, including Tiktaalik, but when they were shown to the YECs, the YECs deliberately turned a blind eye to them and pretend to not notice and say there are more gaps being made between the fossils in the record. Despite what Ham claims, dinosaurs have always been archosaurs and most of all, bird.
There is another caption on page 49, that falsely states that Dromiceiomimus may look like a emu (Of course! The name Dromiceiomimus actually means “emu mimic”) but the lizard hip structure looks different from that of birds. This is straw man, however. Dromiciomimus is not among the lineage that gave rise to birds, Dromeosaurs, such as Bambiraptor are. This is to show the reader that scientists have not found any transitional forms between dinosaurs and birds, which is a blatant lie. Scientist have found scores of transitional forms that helps them to trace the evolution of birds from coelurosaurs that have, in some cases, lizard-like hip structures, in which the pubis is tilted backwards and touches the ilium making the Saurichian hip look more Ornthischian than Saurischian, like in Therizinosaurus for instance.
Note how small the thigh part of the leg is found in the red circle of the Dromiceiomimus picture.
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The actual thigh part of the leg is much longer than that.
Archaeoraptor Fallacy
Then, Ham gives a fabricated story about a fossil dinosaur with feathers in China. Ham claims that the scientists thought they have a transitional form, but then they discover that the fossil is really 2 animals, a bird with feathers and a dinosaur glued together into forming one fossil. Here is the real, factual story of the Archaeoraptor fossil Ham and others are touting around to get people to doubt the scientists, who says they found feathered fossils of dinosaurs.
The Archaeoraptor fossil is really 2 dinosaurs forged into one by a Chinese farmer, a peasant who dug the fossils up and sold it in a black market where illegal fossils are being sold to fossil collectors to add to their private fossil collection. Paleo-artist, Stephen Czerkus, became the unfortunate one of buying the fossil for $80,000 and took it back to the US and began to study it and found that this could be a transitional form of all transitional forms and rashingly publish an article about it in the National Geographic Magazine. The fossil, however, never appeared in peer review journals (It's a good thing it never did.). Yet, it became a sensation...a least for awhile. Finding dinosaur fossils with feathers was and still is a very new sensation amongst the dinosaur discoveries. More and more are thrilled and excited to see feathered fossils of dinosaurs and the Archaeoraptor fossil adds to the excitement. Then Stephen made a discovery in the fossil that blew him away. Since the fossil was smuggled illegally to China, he had to returned the fossil back to China where Paleontologist, Xu Xing examine the fossil and found that the fossil is nothing more than a forgery...sort of. He found that the fossil is really nothing more than a chimera, two animals that are forged into one. Boy, was Czerkas fooled. He could not believe he was fooled by that Chinese peasant who sold that fossil to him. Sold to him from a country that have a major problem with illegal selling of fossils. He had to tell the media about what happed and the National Geographic Magazine had to write an apology in a article; confessing of how they were fooled by the Chinese peasant's fossil forgery. They never found the peasant who done it. But, Xu Xing scientist was able to examine the fossils separetely and found that the fossils were of a Dromaeosaur named Microraptor and a prehistoric loon named Yanornis. Both fossils are real; both fossils are dinosaurs; both fossils have feathers. Ironically, even though the Archaeoraptor is a fake, the fossils that made up the forgery are definitely real and valid. To find out more about this Archaeoraptor story visit this page here.
Ham's "Godless" Evolutionists
Then, Ham stated that 'evolutionists' are convinced there is no God. Another stupid lie. Many 'evolutionists' are Christians, believing that Christ died to save us all from our sins. Ham refuses to acknowledge this. To him, Old earthers, theistic 'evolutionists', biological 'evolutionists', all those who oppose young earth views, Christian and non-Christians are all “god-haters' because they won't agree and support his views. If that's not a message of hate and bigotry, then I don't know what it is. At the very bottom of page 49 there is a Bible verse ripped out of context and twisted to fit into Ham's views. It's I Corinthians 15:39 which reads in the NIV, “All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another.” It seems the verse alone speaks out against evolution like Ham wants it to. It doesn't. When put back in full text, the verse is actually speaking on the resurrected body after it is resurrected from the grave by the power of God, not at all have anything to do with evolution. Read the entire chapter in First Corinthians 15 carefully in full text and you'll see what I mean.
No Sin To Accept Evolution
On pages 50 and 51, the kids are seen observing a scene in the Garden of Eden of Adam and Eve tasting the forbidden fruit in a mist of dinosaurs and modern animals browsing away which includes a Carnotaurus, with wrongful forelimb arrangement, wrongly eating bananas and a Psittacosaurus holding a pear in its hands. On page 50, Ham stupidly regards evolution a sin and claims we are so 'lead astray' by the 'evolutionists' teachings such as the concept of millions of years for instance because we are sinners who inherited the sins of what Adam and Eve after what they have done in the Garden of Eden. This is crackpot lie declared stupidly and hypocritically in the 3rd degree. How can evolution be a sin, while there is actually nothing bad, sinful, and god-hating found within its scientific facts and theories, when it is really the teachings of YECism that have lead the people astray and making them into mental, deluded, sick minded people, who should have been sent to the Funny Farm in the first place (Sorry to say, the Funny Farm has no room for the YECs. That's why they are running around and causing trouble in the science and religion world.) and\or god-haters who engaged in atheism and agnosticism and refuse to have anything to do with God and\or take a much different form of Christian viewing? How can people be lead astray by being educated with scientific facts? While it is really the YECs themselves who are the ones leading the people astray with their stupid lies; giving their gullible followers what they're ears are all itching to hear, YE horse manure!
Ham's False Portrayal Of Evolutionists Being God-Haters
Now this is interesting. All the better to propagate hate with. Pages 52-53 shows a scene where the kids are reading their Bible. Right next to them, there are a stack of books; all YEC books written by Ham, their self-righteous guru himself. The boy points to the Bible and tries to tell the faux evolutionist that what the bible say about earth's history is true. But the faux evolutionist holds out his hand and refuses him. Holding in his hands are 3 books by Darwin and on the table is an ape man skull and a book about evolution. Behind him is a large banner that shows the natural history of planet earth, strawman style.
This scene falsely implies that scientists like him are all God-haters, who would rather have nothing to do with Christianity and Creation, while nothing can be further from the truth. The truth is the opposite. The true, much better, opposite version of this scene is for the 2 people to be paleontologists, who accepts evolution and Christianity too, will read a dinosaur book like Dinosaurus for instance and have a stack of books of dinosaurs in front of them. Heck, let's have them read a Bible and accurately interprets the Bible to agree with the scientific evidence that points to an ancient world, ancient universe, and evolution too and have the young man try to show the creation 'scientist' what the book really is talking about in full text. But the stern, proud, haughty, arrogant, stiff-necked, self-righteous, straight faced YEC who supports Ham would hold his hand out as if to say 'Talk to the hand! I don't want to hear it!” Right behind him would be a huge banner that shows the alleged 6000 year old history and holding in his hands would be books of YECism made up by Ham, including One Blood, The Answers book, and The Lie: Evolution. And finally on the table there would be a normal human skull and a KJV bible book.
Ham's Hypocritical Accusation
Now Ham, on page 52, falsely and hypocritically accuses 'evolutionists' of being willfully ignorant like what the YECs' own twisted version of II Peter 3:5 tells us. The verse when put in full context tells about those in the End Times who refused to believed that Jesus was coming back to earth soon. They acknowleged that the earth was created by God, but thinks everything have stayed enitrely the same since then. Peter, on the other hand, objects to this. Peter wrote that in the beginning, the same water that God cause land to rise from was the same water that brought along the Flood to the world, the known world, not the global world mind you, to punished mankind for his sins. This does not imply that Peter was warning the reader about evolution and the people who advocate it, despite Ham and other YECs' hubris claim. Besides, this is entirely irrelavant to Evolution (meaning "unfolding"). Especially when one knows truly what evolution is really all about. Evolution has zero to do with origins. Instead, it has only lots to do with changes and descending with modifications occurring in populated groups over a period of time, which is exactly what evolution is. Ham is willfully ignorant himself just like all YECs and states that the scientists who accepts evolution are all sinners and those who accepts the fantasy god of “Literal Genesis” are all true Christians. This implies that Ham, Gish, Morris, Hovind, Baugh, and all other YEC leaders are all gods, gurus, dalai lamas, messiahs, and hari krishnahs; pure, perfect and blameless just like Mary Poppins and all of their gullible followers are all saved from the [sic] "bonds of evolution" and be able to go to Heaven while all the rest who reject their teachings burn in Hell.
Christianity does NOT work that way. This is not what the Bible teaches. This does not mean that Ham, Gish, Morris and other YECs and their followers are sinless, blameless, and righteous before God, while all the rest are sinners bound for Hell. No! This is just Ham and other YECs' way of keeping followers in line, behaving very much like the self-righteous Pharisees in Jesus' Time; gaining fame, fortune, money, and power, gaining the whole world; only to be forced to forfeit their souls in the end (Mark 8:36). And this self righteous Pharisee, on page 53, claims God is going to destroy the world with fire as told in II Peter 3:7 (That's irrelavant with the past too.) which He thinks is the final Judgment of God. But this is not what Revelation 20:11 - 15 tells us of what the Final Judgment will be like. Instead the Final Judgement will be like what is told here.
Ham's Claim About The Restoration Of Eden
Now, Ham, on page 54, claims a New Heaven and a New Earth will appear on earth that will be exactly like the Garden of Eden before sin came into the world. But this page does have a saying about this. The only difference between the Garden of Eden and the New Heaven and Earth is there will be no tree of knowledge and snake to tempt them to eat the fruit of it; No one will be tempted to do wrong like the snake has done; No one will tell them that they will die if they do something out of line like eat a certain fruit, in fact there will be no death occurring in God's Kingdom, period; No darkness and night occurring in God's Kingdom, even though I would still like to enjoy nighttime in the new Heaven and earth, where the weather is clear and the moon is full and bright and the sunset is spectacular and colorful to see; and a huge big city of gold and jewels and a crystal clear sea running through it on a big tall mountain with bright lights shining from God all occurring in the New Heaven and Earth, which is completely unlike the Garden of Eden where it has the tree of knowledge, tempting snake, and vulnerability to temptation, and threats of death. If the wolf and the lion will eat straw like cattle as for told in Isaiah 11, then God should have those 2 animals evolve all attributes and features of what it takes to be a plant-eater. Chewing molars, huge guts, fermenting bacteria, and a complex digestive system instead of wasting His creative resources on the animals by giving them wrongful attributes to use.
Ham's Preaching
Now, Ham gets preachy starting on page 56 and continues all the way to the end of the book encouraging—no, indoctrinating the reader to believe in Jesus, his own way. All the other YECs do the same thing with their materials and preached their own version of salvation message while refraining from telling the people that their teachings are all 100% flawed. As a matter of fact, it seems that all they are intrested in preaching nothing but young earth dogma. They are not at all intrested in preaching about the Gospel of Jesus Christ at all. They just throw the preaching in there in an effort to win followers into their group. Telling the reader to give in to their religious teachings that is nothing but empty claims, malice, hate, fear, hostility, emotionalism, mudslinging, bigotry, bickering, money extortions, hypocrisy, falsehoods, racial slander, more slander, stupid lies, ignorance, fallacies, self-righteousness, empty threats of Hell, and man made teachings imposed upon as if they were established by God.
Where people go in the Afterlife
Page 56 and 57 shows where will Christian people go and where will bad people go in the afterlife. All in an attempt to preach about salvation...the wrong way. That kind of preaching would make Christians into atheists once they realized that what Ham and his brother teaches is all a lie and everything Ham says about Genesis and the history of the world is all a myth and evolution is everything that's totally opposite of what Ham, his brother, and others claim it is. Then their faith will be dashed to bits and would kick themselves for believing in a lie. Then they will either denounced their Christian Faith and become either atheists, buddhists, Wiccans, or any other believer in a cult religion after falling into the False Dilemma trap (i.e. If evolution is true the bible is false, for example.), or take on a much different kind of a Christian Faith after they put up a struggle over their walk in the Christian faith causing them to argue with themselves and God (even cursing Him; telling Him to #@$% off and die.) and be devastated over the damage that has been done to them, no thanks to the YECs. In one's opinion, Ham and others like him are nothing more than people who are pretending to be Christians; doing it only for personal gain, not for the Glory of God. If Ham is a Christian, which it is highly doubtful, then he is among the lost sheep; wayward, carnal types who says they are of God, but they walk in the ways of the world (sinful society) spreading lies and deception as well as compromising here and there.
Learning Nothing From A Dinosaur Bone
On pages 58 and 59, the kids observe a dinosaur skull while daydreaming of the times they spent in the Garden of Eden with Adam, Eve, modern animals, and the mythical dinosaurs. In the text on page 58, Ham want the reader to imagine that he/she has a dinosaur bone. Then he ask, “What can you learn from this piece of dead bone?” Answer, nothing! Nothing can be learned from a dinosaur bone when it comes to morality, Christianity, and the Bible. Ham tries anyway and dredges up lessons he thinks we can learn from a dinosaur bone, while in reality what those lessons will do is give people crap about the 6,000 year old earth and universe myth, the global flood myth, the dinosaurs lived with man myth and others and lead then all into a delusion of blind faith, ignorance, and denial.
A Bad Comparison
Despite what Ham says on page 60, using Noah's ark as a pictured comparison to Jesus Christ will do us no good concerning about the conditions of the ark when it comes to worries over diseases, adequate maintenance, ventilation, food, exercise, proper places to dispose of animal feces, etc. When you enter into the ark or any wooden ship that has no adequate fixes or a proper physicality or maintenance, you may wound up being susceptible to diseases, malnutrition and other pitfalls of being inside a wooden ship. Just ask the African Americans whose ancestors were forced be crowded into wooden ships that are setting sail on a direct coarse to slavery in America.
Page 62 still has Ham preaching the wrongful kind of salvation message, which it's not worth accepting. That kind of salvation message will bring much, much more harm than good to accept the message and be converted to it as mentioned above. This website will explain more.
Using the Gospel to Swindle People
Now we get to the very last page of the book, which is page 64, where it shows the kids observing a Maiasaura feeding her young. Also on the page, there is also a written prayer to invite Jesus into the reader's life and 3 out of text Bible verses, two located in the text (Psalms 119:9, 2 Timothy 2:15) and one, a so-called memory verse (Psalm 119:160), is located at the very bottom of the text. All are taken from the King James Bible, which Ham thinks will challenge the reader to rely on blind faith in young earth stupidity and falsehood rather than the truth. Those 3 verses, when put in full context and interpreted right, actually tells of people who love, cherished, and uphold the Law of Moses, including the Ten Commandments and encourages the reader to do the same and Paul reminding Timothy to stick to the gospel of Jesus Christ and avoid godless chat and pathetic stupid arguments that only produce quarrels. Case in point; the cult teachings of Ham, Morris, Gish, etc. These things have been known to be exactly what Paul is warning Timothy to keep away from when it comes to "godless chat" and "foolish and stupid arguments that only produce quarrels" as Paul puts it. Then Ham encourages the reader to read the so-called (sic) 'the history book of the universe' in large capitol letters; the paper idol Ham worships and write to Answers in Genesis so that Ham and his cronies can boast about another sucker converted into their fold to add more cash to their pocketbooks and to shovel more crap to converts' mouth, head, and heart for more and more money. What did Jesus says about not serving God and Money (Mathew 6:24, Luke 16:13)?
And finally, we don't need to wait for the new heaven and a new earth to see the dinosaurs because we're already seeing them now, as birds.
Conclusion
Well, that's it! We've just come to the end of our mythic time traveling adventure through the fantasy world of the dinosaurs as told in the book “Dinosaurs of Eden: a (sic) Biblical Journey through Time” and have not learned a doggone thing from it. Indeed it sure was not at all a very nice place to visit and see the dinosaurs of myth roaming happily in the Garden of Eden only to be all killed off by the Flood and it's aftermath. But, you don't really want to neither live nor be drawn there. If you really want to be drawn into a really great dinosaur time traveling adventure involving 2 kids, then check out Book 1 of The Magic Tree House series called Dinosaurs before Dark right here where 2 kids travel to the time of the dinosaurs in a large magic tree house that's full of books. A far much better alternative to Ham's delusional kiddie crap. If you really want to visit a real edenic world where dinosaurs roam happily alongside of humans, then James Gurney's Dinotopia series is highly recommended! Dinotopia, A Land Apart From Time is a fantastic sci-fi world where there is really a Dinosaur Eden on the island continent where dinosaurs and humans live together as equals; in peaceful harmony with each other. 100% guaranteed that there will be no flood, no slander, no bad diets, no stupid lies and no bad indoctrinations of any kind to be found on that island paradise. So journey all the way to this wonderful sci-fi world and remember, Breathe Deep, Seek Peace!
