this tired cannard

this great comeback comment on bibleland studios site was just too good to pass up...

Re: Dinosaur Swallows Human?
by Cimber on Wednesday, December 29 @ 17:31:58 EST

The point to all of this isn't that this is an obvious fabrication; even a cursory examination would tell you as much--if not the uproar that such a discovery would have caused. The point, I think, is this tired cannard that "only" creationists rely on "faith." In my book, faith is believing in what you can't actually observe or measure. And evolution will always be a faith-based system--with priests, holy books, and the like. What I find most interesting is the ad hominem attacks in the article itself. If you really want to get down to it, evolutionists themselves have believed in such frauds to promote their theories (hoaxes, I might add, that were much easier to uncover than this one--e.g. Piltdown Man and the Nebraska "Pig-man"). It's true that such frauds have long been discarded, but the fraudulent drawings by Haekel and the discredited vestigial organs argument have not.

I, too, am saddened that this site did not do any research into the topic, since such things spread a pallor over Creationism as a whole. But for this linked article above (go to bibleland studios to find this link) to say that creationists rely upon only two arguments to back up their claim is absurd. The problem has never been the actual evidence, since evolutionists and creationists both agree upon the evidence; the problem is in the interpretation of the evidence. Ask an evolutionist how any macro-evolutionary event occurs that adds new information, and they won't be able to answer, since NO mutation adds new genetic information. It does not happen (in fact, there are several unclaimed rewards for the person who could prove something like that happened in nature).

Creationists have faith in God and the Bible, and evolutionists have faith in mutations and Darwin. Both sides have made their missteps...although rarely was it in such a sinister way as commiting fraud as those who made this fossil have done. If you ask me, I think their rationale is this: if you can't disprove creation, just make fun of those who believe in it. If there's one thing that I've seen in the last few years, the evolutionists are starting to get a little anxious because real scientists (and wow, geewiz, they actually have REAL PhDs from REAL universities) are questioning the "sacred" doctrines of science. A doctrine passed down on faith. In Darwin they trust.