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Shit these people are fucking STUPID!!!
Not only that, they think that it is possible that dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark, but died due to "the great climatic changes that followed the Flood".
These people are so lacking in intelligence they do not even deserve to be alive. All they are doing is taking up valuable oxygen and other resources that could better be used by people who have a brain!
They are of the same caliber as people who still to this day believe the Earth is flat.
Enough ranting...read the article:
Group wants to reconcile dinosaurs, Bible
Some Adventists say science flawed, call for discussion
By ANITA WADHWANI
Staff Writer
When confronted with questions from her middle school students about dinosaurs, Seventh-day Adventist teacher Laurel Baker says she usually skirts the issue and changes the subject.
Seventh-day Adventists believe in a literal six-day creation of the world described in the biblical book of Genesis. It's written there that God created Adam and Eve and the animals of the earth on the same day — about 6,000 years ago, according to many Seventh-day Adventists.
Most mainstream scientists believe dinosaurs existed hundreds of millions of years ago, predating the evolution of human beings.
Now, however, some in the denomination are making new efforts to reconcile these contrary beliefs by asserting that many of the techniques and assumptions of science are simply flawed.
Scientists date dinosaur fossils using "the distribution of isotopes, but those processes have very little to do with time," said geologist Elaine Kennedy, who has spent her career examining dinosaur eggs and nests and now serves as adjunct professor at Southwestern Adventist University in Keene, Texas. "You're talking about phenomenon that can happen very quickly."
Such dating, she said, doesn't take into account the impact of the cataclysmic flood recounted in the Bible, for example.
Kennedy believes that dinosaurs were created during Biblical times, thousands rather than millions of years ago.
Her book, "Dinosaurs Where did they come from … and where did they go?" is being featured at this week's convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Hotel of about 6,200 educators from Seventh-day Adventist parochial schools across the country.
The educators attended workshops and bought books Monday that offered biblical-based and scientific explanationsto curious students who have grown up on movies like "Jurassic Park" and "The Land Before Time."
At a standing-room-only workshop called "The Dirt on Dinosaurs: Created or Evolved," David Stair told about 150 participants that God created dinosaurs on the sixth day of creation, when the Bible says: "And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind."
Contrary to traditionally accepted science, dinosaurs roamed the earth along with humans until the great flood recounted in the Bible killed all living things that did not board Noah's ark, he said.
It's possible that some dinosaurs were small enough to enter the ark and survive, only to be killed by the great climactic changes that followed, said Stair, principal of Joshua Adventist Multigrade School in Joshua, Texas. A baby T-Rex, for example, was probably small enough to fit on a person's shoulder.
The denomination has about 1 million adherents in North America and 14 million worldwide.
Two years ago, Seventh-day Adventists reaffirmed their belief that the "seven days of the Creation account were literal 24-hour days forming a week identical in time to what we now experience as a week; and that the flood was global in nature."
At the same time, the denomination called upon all educators at about 1,000 Seventh-day Adventist schools in the United States, Canada and Bermuda to uphold and advocate the church's position while also educating children to "understand and assess competing philosophies of origins that dominate scientific discussion in the contemporary world."
Dinosaurs, according to some Seventh-day Adventist theories, either never existed, their bones were scattered by Satan on earth to confuse people, or they were animals created by God but altered by Satan after the fall of the Garden of Eden.
But a growing number of adherents believe they must do better at offering an explanation for dinosaurs that is faithful to scientific data and supportive of biblical beliefs.
Connie Reynolds, principal of A.W. Spalding Elementary School in Chattanooga, says she was picking up a copy of Kennedy's book not only to help guide the education of her students, but to help her when she is challenged by her 15-year-old son to provide answers to natural phenomenon not easily explained by the Bible.
Reynolds says she believes dinosaurs were originally created in some form by God but were warped by Satan, and they died in the great flood described in the Bible.
"My son reads National Geographic. If I say something wrong, he'll say, 'Mom, why don't you know that.' If I don't have answers, it may make him question if the other things I say are legitimate."
These people are so lacking in intelligence they do not even deserve to be alive. All they are doing is taking up valuable oxygen and other resources that could better be used by people who have a brain!
They are of the same caliber as people who still to this day believe the Earth is flat.
Enough ranting...read the article:
Group wants to reconcile dinosaurs, Bible
Some Adventists say science flawed, call for discussion
By ANITA WADHWANI
Staff Writer
When confronted with questions from her middle school students about dinosaurs, Seventh-day Adventist teacher Laurel Baker says she usually skirts the issue and changes the subject.
Seventh-day Adventists believe in a literal six-day creation of the world described in the biblical book of Genesis. It's written there that God created Adam and Eve and the animals of the earth on the same day — about 6,000 years ago, according to many Seventh-day Adventists.
Most mainstream scientists believe dinosaurs existed hundreds of millions of years ago, predating the evolution of human beings.
Now, however, some in the denomination are making new efforts to reconcile these contrary beliefs by asserting that many of the techniques and assumptions of science are simply flawed.
Scientists date dinosaur fossils using "the distribution of isotopes, but those processes have very little to do with time," said geologist Elaine Kennedy, who has spent her career examining dinosaur eggs and nests and now serves as adjunct professor at Southwestern Adventist University in Keene, Texas. "You're talking about phenomenon that can happen very quickly."
Such dating, she said, doesn't take into account the impact of the cataclysmic flood recounted in the Bible, for example.
Kennedy believes that dinosaurs were created during Biblical times, thousands rather than millions of years ago.
Her book, "Dinosaurs Where did they come from … and where did they go?" is being featured at this week's convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Hotel of about 6,200 educators from Seventh-day Adventist parochial schools across the country.
The educators attended workshops and bought books Monday that offered biblical-based and scientific explanationsto curious students who have grown up on movies like "Jurassic Park" and "The Land Before Time."
At a standing-room-only workshop called "The Dirt on Dinosaurs: Created or Evolved," David Stair told about 150 participants that God created dinosaurs on the sixth day of creation, when the Bible says: "And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind."
Contrary to traditionally accepted science, dinosaurs roamed the earth along with humans until the great flood recounted in the Bible killed all living things that did not board Noah's ark, he said.
It's possible that some dinosaurs were small enough to enter the ark and survive, only to be killed by the great climactic changes that followed, said Stair, principal of Joshua Adventist Multigrade School in Joshua, Texas. A baby T-Rex, for example, was probably small enough to fit on a person's shoulder.
The denomination has about 1 million adherents in North America and 14 million worldwide.
Two years ago, Seventh-day Adventists reaffirmed their belief that the "seven days of the Creation account were literal 24-hour days forming a week identical in time to what we now experience as a week; and that the flood was global in nature."
At the same time, the denomination called upon all educators at about 1,000 Seventh-day Adventist schools in the United States, Canada and Bermuda to uphold and advocate the church's position while also educating children to "understand and assess competing philosophies of origins that dominate scientific discussion in the contemporary world."
Dinosaurs, according to some Seventh-day Adventist theories, either never existed, their bones were scattered by Satan on earth to confuse people, or they were animals created by God but altered by Satan after the fall of the Garden of Eden.
But a growing number of adherents believe they must do better at offering an explanation for dinosaurs that is faithful to scientific data and supportive of biblical beliefs.
Connie Reynolds, principal of A.W. Spalding Elementary School in Chattanooga, says she was picking up a copy of Kennedy's book not only to help guide the education of her students, but to help her when she is challenged by her 15-year-old son to provide answers to natural phenomenon not easily explained by the Bible.
Reynolds says she believes dinosaurs were originally created in some form by God but were warped by Satan, and they died in the great flood described in the Bible.
"My son reads National Geographic. If I say something wrong, he'll say, 'Mom, why don't you know that.' If I don't have answers, it may make him question if the other things I say are legitimate."
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