{"id":6129,"date":"2006-02-26T07:18:57","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T12:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2006-02-26T07:18:57","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T12:18:57","slug":"more-creationist-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6129","title":{"rendered":"MORE CREATIONIST NONSENSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sometimes amazed that creationists allow themselves to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortwayne.com\/mld\/journalgazette\/news\/nation\/13960790.htm\">quoted in the paper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Evangelist Ken Ham smiled at the 2,300 elementary students packed into pews, their attention rapt. With puppets and cartoons, he was showing them how to reject geology, paleontology and evolutionary biology as a sinister tangle of lies.<\/p>\n<p>If a teacher mentions evolution, or the Big Bang, or an era when dinosaurs ruled Earth, Ham said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You put your hand up and you say, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcExcuse me, were you there? Can you remember that?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u201a\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The children roared their assent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sometimes people will answer, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNo, but you weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t there either,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u201a\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ham told them. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Then you say, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNo, I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, but I know someone who was, and I have his book about the history of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u201a\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He waved his Bible in the air.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the only one who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always been there?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ham asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153God!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the boys and girls shouted.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the only one who knows everything?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153God!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153So who should you always trust, God or the scientists?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The children answered with a thundering: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153God!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s another 2000+ kids who won&#8217;t grow up to cure cancer.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sometimes amazed that creationists allow themselves to be quoted in the paper: Evangelist Ken Ham smiled at the 2,300 elementary students packed into pews, their attention rapt. With puppets and cartoons, he was showing them how to reject geology, paleontology and evolutionary biology as a sinister tangle of lies. If a teacher mentions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}