This is a topic I've posted on another forum (slightly revised)
from: <a href="http://www.westword.com/issues/2002-10-17/feature.html/1/index.html" target="_blank">Book, Chapter and Verse B.C. Tours offers a politically incorrect view of Denver. From the beginning.</a>
see the third page for:
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Jack's half of the B.C. Tours group proceeded in a quiet, orderly fashion to the zebras.
"Why do you think the zebra has stripes?" Jack asked.
A boy wearing a Federal Bureau of Investigation, Knoxville, hat ventured a guess: "Camouflage?"
No, not camouflage. Patiently, Jack explained again how before the fall of Eden, there was no death, hence no predators, hence no need for camouflage. "Let's try again. Why does the zebra have stripes?"
The kids defaulted to their standard answer: "Jesus!"
"Kind of," said Jack. "But not quite. The answer is really that the zebra has stripes to glorify God. God made all the animals for his own glory. They're for our enjoyment, but they're for His glory."
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Is it my imagination or are these kids learning jack-all from this? Just think, xtians love to claim that they're responsible for science! If they all used reasoning like that above, then there's no way in people could learn anything. If camaflage has nothing to do with it, then why does it work on the predators, as compared with those animals with no such camaflage? Coincidence?! Even AIG isn't that stupid! They'd at least say it was camaflage to help the animal get along in this "sin-cursed" world. It's a well-known optical illusion that works for their environment.
Note the guys' answer, though. "for gods' glory". That can be applied to anything, using his reasoning. How in hell can one learn about natural animal-relations with this attitude?!
and from page 4:
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Jack had one final, important point to make. He set it up by quoting God in the Book of Job:40:15-18:
Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you; he eats grass like an ox. See now, his strength is in his hips, and his power is in his stomach muscles. He moves his tail like a cedar, the sinews of his thighs are tightly knit. His bones are like beams of bronze, his ribs like bars of iron.
The word "behemoth" is footnoted in most Bibles as "a large animal, exact identity unknown." Many biblical scholars point to the hippo as a likely candidate. But Jack has another theory. "Look at that hippo's tail," he said. "Does that look like a tail the size of cedar tree?"
"No!"
"Well, what other animal can you think of that is massive and super-strong that has bones like beams of bronze and a tail the size of a cedar tree and who eats grass, who God made along with man?"
"Dinosaurs!"
"That's right," Jack said. "There's the evidence, right there."
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That idiot! If those fools would only read on in Job:
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19. He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
20. Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
21. He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
22. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
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Given the rest of the context, it is obvious that it can't be a dinosaur, because they couldn't take "covert" in the reed, which grows in rather shallow water, or be "compassed" about by the "willows" of the brook. A dino would be just too damn big.
By the way, the thing about the tail does NOT mention size, just that he moved his tail like a cedar. (from 1611 KJV Bible)
10-31-2002, 10:47 PM
Biblically correct museum tours!
