The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved! Part 9
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More of Ham's Moral Idiocy
Ham then states falsely that the foundations of the gospel is all found in Young earthism version of Genesis, while the real foundations of the Gospel is in Jesus Christ our Lord (John 1). Ham threatens that if you accept evolution, then you are accepting the concept of millions of years of death, suffering, bloodshed, and disease happening before Adam's sin, which is all nonsense. What Ham is advocating here is a gross misrepresentation of the phrase “Nature's red in tooth and claw.”and “survival of the fittest,” which are terms that are not at all found in Darwin's literature but are made up by 2 men, a poet named Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), who coined the phrase “Nature's red in tooth and claw” in one of his poems that expresses the loss of an individual, probably the loss of someone he knew as a friend and an English philosopher named Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), who coined the phrase “Survival of the Fittest” in his book Social Statics. Ham also tries to imply some verses in the Bible to mean a physical death, while when put in full context and interpreted correctly, the verses actually describes a death that's spiritual. Ham doesn't care about that. He's just doing the physical death tripe as a emotional tactic to scare people into disregarding evolution and take on the myth of creation as told by Ham and his faux-god. What Ham is promoting is known as death tautology. It implies that death and suffering is evil. If so, then God is evil too, which that kind of a thought of what Ham advocates is blasphemy.
Ham's Death Philosophy
None of what Ham promotes is biblical, not even his idiot death philosophy is biblical as well. When confronted with the notion that plants do die when eaten, Ham counters the fact with the myth found on page 84 about plants not being alive because they don't have a nephesh (a spirit) inside of them. No doubt, Ham knows nothing of what the word really means (See part 4 of my essay for details.)! plants are alive! They eat, they drink, they grow, they have genders, they reproduce (Just like I've mention earlier.), and plants DO die when they get eaten, roots and all. What does Ham think they are, plastic? Get real! Unlike humans, elephants, monkeys, and other beings that show feelings and emotions, the only things in the world that does NOT have a nephesh in them is fish, reptiles, bugs, worms, and above all, rocks. Plain and simple. If there was no death before the fall and animals and people are to eat things that do not have nephesh in them, let them eat rocks!
No Attack on the Atonement and The Message of the Cross
Ham starts preaching about Christ, on pages 84 in the middle and 85 in the upper part and how an example was made in the Garden of Eden of how God had to kill an animal to save Adam and Eve's life, even though they disobey God that predates the time when Christ will have to die and shed His blood for our sins. Nothing wrong with that, except for this is one of the most dangerous parts of the salvation message preached in a YEC style. Atheism in the making. More on this later. Ham claims if the Garden was setting on a fossil record of dead things that are millions of years old, then this will destroy the foundation of the atonement according to Ham, which it won't. This claim is weak and useless. The fossil record is millions of years old (actually 3 billion years old.), they are doing nothing to destroy the foundation of the atonement. All throughout the distorted preaching, verses are being taken out of text and twisted around without ever having any regard with the other verses that has a special connection with the verses Ham and other YECs pick and choose. When read in full text and undistorted, they form a meaning that has no relevance to what Ham preaches, Ham wants everyone to believe that all death mention in his talk is applying to physical death. Problem is, when understood in full text and better understood in the real biblical sense, all of the verses Ham claims to describe physical death actually means spiritual death, not physical. If Christ died to take away the physical death and there is still physical death around, then he's not such a savior to us after all. Christ did died for us physically but only to take away spiritual death away from us, so that we can be allowed to go to Heaven and be with Him forever.
Thus, the mythical alleged attack on the foundations of the message of the Cross by the fabled fossil record of millions of years of death, disease, and suffering is all made up in Ham own head. Another empty scare tactic. Neither found in the scientific evidence, nor the real fossil record, and never found in the Bible either.
The Fabled Missionary Lizards
Now we see Ham branding the dinosaurs as the fabled “Missionary Lizards” Please, do keep in mind that the word 'dinosaur' is a misnomer. The word dinosaur means “Fearfully Great Lizards” or more commonly “Terrible lizards.” Also, do keep in mind that not all dinosaurs are terrible and none of them are lizards. Ham however proves to be a no-nothing-of-dinosaurs person as well as a no-nothing-of-Christian Theologian as well as a first class hypocrite just by stating hypocritically that dinosaurs more than anything else is probably used to brainwash people into evolutionary ideas involving random chances of producing life and millions of years of death and suffering. If so, then what do you call this? What he's doing to all of his idiot books, summer camp programs, seminars, videos, radio programs, hired artists, and his million dollar Wal-mart Superstore size 'museum' he plants on his site, including his recent concept of “putting evolutionists on notice, we're taking back the dinosaurs” while he's really stealing them for his own evil purposes? It sure sounds like the statement YEC like Ham made up all has the word "hypocrisy" written all over it. For he and all other YECs is doing the EXACT SAME THING!
More than anything else YECs including Ham is using the dinosaurs to brainwash people into YECism falsehood just by filling his waste with scores and scores of “hopeful monsters” and dinosaurs that never existed including the vegetarian Velociraptor, a coconut, mango, watermelon eating T.rex, dinosaur ark babies, behemoth brontosaur, leviathan kronosaur, and a baryonyx dragon; all imaginary creatures that are the supposed star main attractions of Ham's million dollar, Wal-mart Superstore-size, Crapshoot in Petersburg, Kentucky (Food for thought for even me to keep in mind: A so-called million dollar, state-of-the-art 'museum' like Ham's don't make all of what YECs advocate and preach be true. What they claim about dinosaurs, evolution and earth's history in their so-called state-of-the-art museum and beyond will never, ever be considered so.). Fixed so that they will even appeal to even small children as well as adults knowing that small children will believe anything and everything other people say regardless of whether it is true or false. Seriously, how can dinosaur education be a brainwashing thing, while in fact this is all the result of great multitudes of scientific evidence all that were discovered, studied, tested, and falsified over the years in laboratories and in fields by the most well trained, well knowledgeable people, Christian and non-Christian? Answer: It can't! There is no way can science and evolution be a brainwashing tool. The only thing that really brainwashes people is Ham, Morris, Hovind, and other YECs' stupid lies, strawman evolution, and hopeful, imaginary dinosaurs; void of facts and evidence, and empty religious talk that messes around with people's emotions and nothing else.
Indoctrination and Education: The Difference Between the two
Already Ham plays around with people's emotion by being senselessly “sad” in his own little world over the fact that people, Christian and non-Christian accepts evolution especially in colleges and universities and assumes that because of many dinosaur movies being popularized in theaters as well as scores and scores of real evolutionary dinosaur books, being a common sight everywhere, the secular world and the church have been “indoctrinated” (Note how Ham is using the word, which means "to imbue or pervade with a partisan or ideological point of view," to imply that evolution is a religion while it's not. It's so obvious Ham doesn't know the difference between indoctrination and education. Indoctrination, not education is what YECism is all about. Education, not indoctrination is what evolution is clearly all about.) to believe in evolutionary ideas. There is nothing sad about the fact that people of all faiths, even Christians except evolution and the concept of a billions of years of history because of mountains of scientific evidence for it. Nothing sad about having the great dinosaur paraphernalia around including dinosaur movies made up to entertain people as well as books sold by the billions to educates the people on these creatures from a lost world that's many eons old. Yet, Ham wants to make you feel that this is something to be sad over, while it's not.
A stumbling block to Ham's warped dogma
Ham also falsely declares that this is becoming one of the biggest stumbling blocks to believing the Bible. It's not. What it is really is nothing more than a massive stumbling block to Ham's idiot dogma in which he claims it to be the real deal to embrace while it's not. That's because unlike what Ham teaches, Evolutionary ideas is all based on multi scores of scientific evidence seen here and here that's all for evolution and the concept of billions, not millions of years ago and none for YECism and the concept of thousands of years ago. This gives the church people a really good reason to laugh and scoff at; the YECs, especially Ham, Morris, Baugh, and Hovind and all of their stupid lies and their faulty salvation message is what makes Christians into atheists. That's what the Church laughs and scoffs at, knowing that none of what YECs are saying is true. Despite what Ham preaches, churches, who accept evolution and/or an old earth, do teach about the foundations of Genesis. Yet, in a very realistic way that favors the reality of an old earth and billions of years of history and they know that the Bible is not a science book at all. They interpret the Bible to agree with the scientific evidence while YECs like Ham does the opposite.
What Creationists Really Do
This, what creationists really do to the dinosaurs, is the only way they can fit the dinosaurs into their ill-fated dogma. They either deny their existence or use old wives' tales, legends, fables, mythology, Old Testament Bible stories, and folklore, all told primarily of dragons and monsters, to distort them in every way. All creationists try to make the scientific evidence as well as dinosaurs (Baryonyx for example.) agree with their views of the bible, science, and history by twisting them up and distorting them to fit in their views about it and exploit them to the world, which is an absolute no-no. Greg Nayman, an old earth creationist, one of best gems out there when it comes to advocating both creation and evolution (Actually he doesn't agree with Darwin's view of evolution. Still he accepts evolution anyway.) and the concept of billions of years has a ministry and a website that carries a purpose for God. Greg's purpose is to tell the people that what Ham and other YECs teaches is unsound, unbiblical, and you can believe in both evolution, old earth and the Bible despite what the YECs indoctrinate their gullible followers into concerning about salvation. You can view his website right here.
Ham's False Accusation of Cluelessness Against Those Who Reject His Views
Moving on to page 86, Ham assumes that because most churches have allowed evolutionary ideas in and not taught the Mythic foundational importance to Ham of the young earth version of Genesis, nor the great dinosaur myth based upon Ham's paper idol, people aren't sure they can trust the bible, or so he thinks. In reality, most people, especially Christians all have NO problems trusting and defending the Bible and answering the questions made by critics as well as accepting evolution and all of its facts Ham and other YECs deliberately chose to deny. Ham then claims that when people are confronted by skeptics, they don't know what to say. (or do they know?) There is a deadness in their life, (yeah right!) They can't defend the Bible (sure they do.) so the people they are talking to assume they don't have to take the bible seriously (Or can they?). What Ham assumes and what people really do when confronted by skeptics is two different things. Like I said before, People who accept Christianity and evolution have NO problems defending and proving the Bible's authenticity even to skeptics who question them. You can see proof of it right here.
The Real Guilty One
Young Earth Creationism (The Edenic Cult) is one of the many reason why so many people are driven from the church. It is not evolution that drives people out, causing them to doubt the Bible and get stumped over questions about the Bible and Christianity. It is really YECism and those who advocate it, who are breaking up churches; causing divisions, breakdowns and questioning of the Bible and it's authenticity and that's no lie! Ham claims Christians are often confused and don't know what to say to their children, which YECism is to be blamed for. They have brought upon the confusion themselves! Emotionally, Ham claims “sadly,” (And it's all YECs' fault for this!) the next generation grows up accepting evolution and often times rejecting the Bible and thus Christianity. And is all because of Ham, Morris, Hovind, Gish, and all other YECs out there and all of their stupid lies, not evolution.
The Foundation of Ignorance, not thinking
Like I said before, using the Bible to explain dinosaurs explains nothing. And Ham knows it! But he doesn't care. What Ham is encouraging the reader to do is building up a foundation of ignorance, not of thinking. YECs have no honest answers at all to the questions asked by the people. Just stupid lies, hubris, and nothing more.
Ham's Faulty Solution
There is a large image that's just like the previous image on page 82 on the lower left hand corner where it illustrates a faulty solution to the make-believe attacks on the Bible and its foundations that are not there. What I'm talking about is the foundations of YECism Ham tries to equate with real foundation of the Bible and Christianity, but it won't work. Ham thinks the solution to the problems of defending the young earth foundations that don't exist is found in Isaiah 58:12. When put in full context, however Isaiah was actually accusing Israel of not being sincere in their worship and their fasting and shows the people how true worship and fasting is to be done and what will happen in a positive way when true worship and fasting is done. Ham wants to use dinosaurs as in capital letters “missionary lizards”whom they are not and claim that the Bible and its account of the history of the universe (which there never was) can be shown to be trustworthy, while in fact it has been proven time and time again to be as trustworthy as Richard Nixon when it comes to the Watergate Scandal.
What Christians really should not listen to
Ham lies again saying that Christians can show to the world that the evolutionary story of dinosaurs cannot be defended, while the exact opposite is true. Dinosaur story, told in a young earth way, is in fact the story that cannot be defended because there is nothing factual in it worth defending. It is far from being an account that makes sense of the evidence because the evidence for it is not there. Christians, in reality should never listen to Ham and his stupid lies. None of what he preaches is worth defending, listening to, or preaching about because there's no trace of truth in it. And Ham knows it deep down inside, but he just doesn't want to admit it though. Next, he says at the same time one can talk about origins about death, sin Ham's way, and the ark of salvation, which it is actually the ark of death concerning about diseases, ventilation, feces, fast growing animals, and other flaws and problems with the ark as well as the aftermaths of the fabled global flood that will take the lives of all the rest the flood has failed to do. Comparing that with the other so-called ark of salvation, our Lord Jesus Christ, would be weak and totally useless to win people's salvation to the Lord because that means there are fatal problems with Jesus Christ as well as Noah's ark. So it won't work.
