The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved! Part 10

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Continued from part 9

Contents

Ham's Ideas Solves Nothing.

Ham says that telling people about the true history of the world and presenting the solution to the world's problems (his way) is what his book is all about or so he thinks. To tell you the truth, NONE OF HIS IDEAS WILL EVER SOLVE ANYTHING! Ham's ideas, he thinks, will solve all the world's problems, while it will only solve absolutely nothing. If all people comply with Ham's ideas, they will just create more and more problems and bring more and more conflicts and divisions to the Church. People who accept the opposite will be either jailed or executed and their hard earn fruits of their labor not matter how authentic they are will be burned, desecrated, and destroyed.

Young Earthism Teaches Hate

There will be more and more segregation, prejudice, and racism. (Ham thinks he has the final solution to the problems of racism and has put them all in his One Blood book, while in fact that kind of a solution he made in the book will solve nothing. It will only create more hatred, more prejudice, more segregation, more discrimination, and more persecution among Africans, Native Americans, Jews, and all others highly regarded as inferior by die hard racists just like it has happened time and time again for over many centuries.). Especially showing off hatred in every way toward those who oppose Ham's and other YEC's views.

These 2 guys are the best examples of this after what they have done to Paul Mirecki, Professor of Kansas University as told here. If you think that's bad, wait till you hear about how the so-called Christians react to what has happened as told in an article in the Panda's Thumb Blog [1] here (Note: Contains mild language.). Honestly, YECism is all about hate. Pure rock solid hate, not love. To prove you more of this to be true, here are some facts about some well known YECs out there who promotes and advocate hate in their teachings in one form or another.

Did you know that Kent Hovind is anti-semitic? And Ham's faulty museum is located in an area that has major problems with racial crimes, civil unrest, and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)? Did you know that the KKK supports YECism too? And Jack Chick, a radical fundamentalist and a YEC advocate has a strong hatred towards Catholics? Did you know that AIG has a policy that says they don't allow Jews, Gays, Catholics, Jehovah's Witness, Theistic evolutionists, and all others they don't like into their group? Did you know that Ham hates Gays and Lesbians and slanders them as much as he slanders all other who oppose his views? And finally, did you know that Henry Morris is prejudice against African people whether they be African Americans or African Natives as much as his mentor, George M. Price was during his time? No doubt they will have such a policy being made when they hire people to work there at their faulty museum in Petersberg, Kentucky. Heck, I would not be surprised if they kick out, fired, and excommunicate such people and others that don't like, questioned, even challenged their views from their faulty place when they open in early 2007. To know more about YECism and their ties to racism as well as where the so-called museum is being planted at in the area of civil unrest and racial violence, see these sites.

There will be more family problems, especially when husbands beat their wives and children especially when they are drunk or under the influence of dope, if they either give him a hard time, see something about them they don't like, or don't give into his bossy, demanding ways, and much, much more. Like I said, Ham's so-called “final solution” will only solve nothing! It will NOT be solved with that kind of a talk and Ham knows it, but he doesn't want to admit it lest he loses all of his followers and their money to reality.

Wrong Kind of Preaching

To be honest, creationists like Ham is not really interested in preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. What they're really interested in is preaching only young earth dogma and getting rich off of them. Nevertheless, nearly every young earth book reserve their last sections for "preaching to the choir" in one form or another. This book is no exception.

Understandably, he is trying spread Christian faith through his brother who is a fundamentalist pastor who preaches KJV style on pages 88-93, but he and his brother is doing it the wrong way. That kind of preaching would make Christians into atheists once they realized that what Ham and his brother teaches are all lies 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. Speaking of compromising...

The Real Compromisers

YECS like Ham been known to accuse evolutionists who are Christians of compromising good and evil. There is an example of this on Pages 94-95 that features an unlikely conversation between a father and a son in a “compromising” family. Ham thinks this is the case in many homes of those who compromises science and the Bible and declares that a Christian Dad, who advocates YECism, understands that all of his “ignorance” [my emphases] built on (in large capital letters) the Bible does (in large capital letters) have all of the answers (in large capital letters), which he don't!-lots (in large capital letters) of answers (all false, dishonest and untruthful, of course.) to not just questions on dinosaurs, but answers about basic questions about life and the universe—all dishonest and untruthful; full of ignorance, lies, and slander. What Ham claims about families, who accept reality and what families, who accept reality, really do is 2 different things. Families, who accept reality and know better, have no problems in accepting science, evolution, and the Bible. They don't even find anything confusing about it. The only thing that does bring on the confusion to the people about science and the Bible is YECism and those who advocate it. Nothing else.

The So-Called Millions of Years of Death and Suffering

Ham, in this section, tries to scare the reader into not being like the Gap Theorists, Theistic Evolutionists, Old Earth Creationists, and Progressive Creationists simply because they accept the empty foundational, mythic concept of death, bloodshed, disease, and suffering occurring before Adam's sin while forgetting deliberately that death, pain, suffering, and everything else supposedly bad is all a necessary part of life. God has created those things to benefit us and the whole world in a very special way. Pain serves as a defensive weapon against certain things that hot, sharp, and much too dangerous for people to handle inside and out. Look at this example of how no pain is very bad, there are children out there who are born with the disability that causes the nerves inside their bodies to be completely void of pain. You may think it's a nice concept but it's not. Here is an article that tells about a boy who has a major problem with no pain in his body. After you read this article about the boy, you will come to realize that not only the no-pain-before-the-Fall claim is indeed blatantly flawed to the core, but you will agree that no pain is indeed Hell as the title puts it. Rich Deem, webmaster of godandscience.org (he doesn't agree with evolution, but he is against YECism.) has a page that contains an article that tells of the difference between what YECs think about death and suffering and what death and suffering is all about, how people throughout history, even to this very day, unlike animals, have been known and is still, to this day, known now to behave very much, much, more worse than animals, despite what YECs like Ham preaches, and how pain and suffering is vital to our survival. You can view 2 of Rich's articles here and here.

The Real Record of Death, Bloodshed, Disease, and Suffering

Please keep in mind that the only record that does have death, bloodshed, disease, and suffering is not just the Transformers' record on Cybertron, but the religious record as well (Click here and here to visit 2 highly popular, well informed Transformers fan sites to learn about what I'm speaking about concerning where you can only find evidence for millions of years of pain, sorrow, bloodshed, death, and suffering according to Ham.), not the fossil record. You won't see the things in the fossil record that you will see in the records involving a pope starting the Crusades which involves killing innocent people by the thousands, a queen as well as a pope establishing an inquisition to help “purify” the souls of men through torture devices such as the rack and the strapado, and a expedition to the New World that involves killing, raping, and burning innocent Native Americans to name a few of the countless incidents of atrocities being committed all in the name of religion. To know more of atrocities committed in the past all in the name of Christian religion, click here.

Ham also stated that they also believe that Noah's Flood happened locally instead of globally, which there is nothing wrong with that despite what Ham believes. Just ask the Titanic explorers who also found evidence of Noah's Flood in the area of the Black Sea that took place 7,500 years ago.

The "Enemies of God" according to YECs

The truth is that Ham and all other YECs are all compromisers themselves. They are all hypocrites! Even Ham is a hypocrite, a first class hypocrite who is greedy for power and leadership. According to them, anyone who are against their views is a compromiser, and of the Devil's children. Christian and non-Christian, it doesn't matter. All are “enemies of God” when they reject their teachings who are destined for Hell while the YECs and their followers will going through the pearly gates into Paradise all made in the way they wanted it.... or so they believe. Fortunately, Christianity does NOT work that way.

Appendix A

Now we get to Appendix A of the book that contains Dinosaur Facts and Myths [my emphases on the subtitle] where on pages 97-144 contain a whole list of quotes and excerpts from real dinosaur books and from YEC crap as well. All the better to plant a false notion in ones head that this is a science book while it's not. All of the quotes taken from real dinosaur literature, that are all outdated by 5, 10, 20, even 30 years or more, has all been taken out of context, fabricated, and twisted to fit the views of the YECs. In some cases, Ham tries to slanderously nitpick at certain areas of some normal dinosaur books in an effort to try to prove to the reader of how flawed their science is while hiding his own loose branches and firewood from his own “family tree.”

Family Tree falsehood

One example of Ham's nitpicking is on page 114 where he nitpicks on a popular dinosaur book, David Norman's The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs (1985) and David Lambert's A Field Guide to Dinosaurs (1990). This is where he falsely claim of missing gaps or branches that are not filled in the dinosaur family tree charts that involves reptiles that lived before dinosaurs and a family tree of dinosaurs themselves. He claims the period around 230 million years ago has absolutely (in large capital letters) no connections to any of the branches, just hypothetical lines. Mockingly, He says that in real life, you won't have a tree but, instead, a nice pile of firewood or a bunch of loose twigs on the ground. This is outright, blatant falsehood. The family tree chart on page 21 came from an old 20 year outdated book written by David Norman and the other one was written by David Lambert 15 years ago. The reason there are seemingly connected hypothetical lines in the chart is because scientists are trying to figure out how the animals evolve based on fossil evidence. This is what they come up with thus far. No doubt, much of the so-called gaps are filled and the family tree of reptiles gets modified when scientific studies gets updated by fossil discoveries that are made in the fields and in laboratories as well. The only real life scenario where no one has a tree, but a nice pile of firewood or jumbled sticks lying on the ground is the YECs themselves (See Taz Walker's pruning of the dino family tree into firewood for best example of this.) who dredges up the family tree falsehood just to ignore the evidence for ancient reptilian lineage that spans 250 million years, evolutionary style.

Distortions of Medieval Literature

That's not all that's in there. There are also Bible verses found in there too, also taken out of context and interpreted wrongly along with old ancient manuscripts that are fabricated, invalid, outdated by centuries, and completely unreliable. Including a claim made up by a YEC, on page 120, who made up a faulty book called After The Flood (1995) which features a chapter that claims of having overwhelming false evidences of dinosaurs and dinosaur like creatures existing in European Danish and Anglo-Saxon countries during medieval times that has never existed [my emphases]. These are all nothing but fabrications made up by the YECs who took out of context certain bits and pieces of Medieval artwork out of context. Especially small cropped up bits of some certain church carvings of fighting or playing mammals (Possibly coming from ruins of an old Greek or Roman building dated to days of Ancient Rome.) that in fact depicts a horse fighting off a wild cat. This is what YECs wrongfully brand as so-called "quadruped" dinosaurs while they're in fact not. Whether it's old literatures, especially an old mythic poem about Beowulf and his battle with Grendel, who was actually an ogre, sculptures, or other artifacts involving dragons, there is no doubt that the creationists took them all and fabricate them to fit their narrow minded beliefs. See Cooper's Pseudo-History of Dinosaurs for more information on how YECs fabricate mythology and folklore to fit their dogma.

Misrepresenting Peter Wellnhofer

They also misrepresented Peter Wellnhofer, who wrote a book called Pterosaurs: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Prehistoric Flying Reptiles (1991) who says that sightings of fossil remains of pterosaurs and other fossils may helped to fuel the people's belief in dragons. Then, Peter gave out some examples of dragon stories the YECs claim to be evidences of live Pterosaurs being sighted by the people who lived during Medieval times. This is false. Peter never meant that when he gave out some examples of dragons stories found on page 20-21 in his book. Honestly, I don't have the book, so I consulted a friend online who says that he has the book and shows me that Peter is not giving out any evidence of pterosaurs the way YECs wanted it. Instead, Peter is really telling the readers that none of the stories he tells about dragons have anything to do with pterosaur findings. Here is what Peter has to say about the examples he gave out on page 21,

“However, none of these concepts of dragons has anything to do with pterosaur fossil finds. Even when they really were based on fossilized remains, the wings are always represented as bird like or bat-like. Actual pterosaur fossils could hardly have given rise to dragon legends, as the significance of such remains was disputed as late as the early nineteenth century, when scientific investigation had already begun.”

None of the dragons told in the stories have features that match that of pterosaurs such as hairy bodies, wings that are supported with one elongated finger, and a gorilla-like body. What the YECs put in their literature and websites is not at all a full text article but just an large, fully distorted out-of-text excerpts that are mined from Peter's book and twisted about to fit Ham's beliefs about it.

Much of what is in the Appendix will do you no good in giving you a reference to anything about dinosaurs you want due to distortions, fabrications, and out-of-text quotes where the YECs would leave out stuff that refutes their fantasy claims, and use unreliable, outdated, imaginative, made up tales and literature and art from medieval times to vainly prove their myth to be a reality. This web page below contains links to websites that debunks quote mining claim made up by YECs like Ham who take little pieces here and there, twist them around and tells it like it is.

http://home.austarnet.com.au/stear/creationist_out_of_context_quotes.htm

Appendix B

Appendix B on pages 145-151 contains just references to real dinosaur books that are out there that can in most cases be checked out at a local library. Ironic isn't it for Ham to refer these when he uses them as punching bags as well as quote mining in an effort to vainly refute all of the facts therein.

The Last Pages

Now we get to the last pages that contains both snail-mail address and e-mail address to their idiot website and headquarters on page 152, a list of YEC books to read on pages 153-154 with all flaws found in them and finally a list of credits containing who illustrated and photograph the images found in the book on page 155.

Conclusion

This book, falsely branded as a science book, will do you NO good in researching dinosaurs. All throughout the book, Ham tries to claim that the Bible has all the answers to everything science, including dinosaurs. But, he has once again failed miserably to do so. All of his claims are all nothing more than direct fabrications, distortions, exploitations of dinosaurs, lies, slander, and blatant outright hypocrisy. What's tragic about it is that not only is Ham deceiving other people with his stupid lies, he's deceiving himself as well, believing in every stink'in lie he himself churns out of his mouth. One definitely needs to be reminded of this from The Internet Infidels Discussion Forums' own Valentine Pontifex, “Mr. Ham really does believe every word, which he wrote no matter how stupid and ignorant it may seem. The person Ham is lying to is himself.” This is worth something to think about and always keep in mind. If Ham would have had a much, much better understanding and realistic perspective towards what science, evolution, dinosaurs, Bible, Christianity, and theology is truly all about, then he would've been a better man than he is now.

Keynote: Ham, however, is trying to change all that by seeing some of the YEC's own error of their ways and create this page on his idiot site that lists the arguments he thinks young earth charlatans should not use. I think that's a good idea. However, he's no different than the other YECs, for he still continues to use the ones that should have been on that list. Such as the Dinosaurs-living-with-man fallacy, the dinosaurs-are-dragons-and-vice-versa fallacies, the all-dinosaurs-were-vegetarians fallacy, the evolution-being-the-source-of-all-the-world's-evils fallacy, the evolution-teaches-we-came-from-animals-and-it's-ok-to-have-an-abortion fallacy and other fallacies he touts from time to time. But, in spite of the article, one must always be highly aware of the amount of integrity of Ham and all other YECs have when it comes to their actions, thinking, and morality - they have none!

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