ICR for April

I am reminded that I failed to post
the April ICR nonsense. Here it is:

ICR "Acts & Facts" - April 2006. see:

www.icr.org/pdf/af/af0604.pdf
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"If God created life he sure did a lousy job of it, especially the human genome. It's a mess. I could have done a better job."

John Morris's cover letter attributes the above quote to "a genomics professor from a major university." As usual, the attribution is incomplete. That seems to be a "feecheer" of ICR's strategy. Never give anyone the wherewithall to check things out in context.

John writes, erroneously, that "students are forced to listen and learn his ... drivel, all at taxpayer expense." Of course, being a university, the latter is slipshod and the term "forced" also seems a little bit off the wall.
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 PRESIDENT'S COLUMN: Darwin Sunday Versus Resurrection Sunday

John writes: "It's hard to imagine, but hundreds of churches all over America reserved
Sunday, February 12, to commemorate the work of Charles Darwin, and
recommit themselves to spreading his message."

John gives no statistics on this.
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ORIGINS: Are Sharks and People Related?

Frank Sherwin writes: "Evolutionary naturalism (as taught in American taxpayer-paid public
schools) preaches that every living thing came from an unknown, unobserved
common ancestor billions of years ago that—conveniently—left no fossil trace."

There is that "taxpayer-paid" adjective again. Frank discusses the fallacy of gene comparisons. "The Creator may very well use similar genes to operate a variety of genetic functions." The usual weasel words. Always questioning scientific ideas -- seldom proposing testable experiments to refute them.
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IMPACT: Wollemia nobilis: A Living Fossil and Evolutionary Enigma

Andrew Snelling writes "When discovered in August 1994, the Wollemi pine was hailed as the
"botanical find of the century," like "finding a small dinosaur still alive
on earth." It was found by New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife
Service ranger David Noble during a weekend bushwalk into a remote 500-600
meter deep narrow sandstone canyon in the rugged and densely forested
Wollemi National Park only 200 kilometers (125 miles) northwest of downtown
Sydney, Australia."

He writes how the puzzle is solved by adapting the time scale of a young earth.
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BACK TO GENESIS: Intelligent Design and/or Scientific Creationism

Henry Morris writes: "Although we have published a number of articles dealing with the
"Intelligent Design" movement, we at ICR continue to get numerous
inquiries—both from Christians and from the secular media—as to ICR's
exact position relative to the ID movement. In particular, why do the
leaders in that movement continually try to distance themselves from us
Biblical creationists, even though our own leaders are also fully
credentialed scientists just like theirs?"

Henry has some interesting things to say about ID. He argues for home and private schools; that the Bible gives no warrant for gov't controlled schools.
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DR. JOHN'S QUESTION: What's a Missing Link?

John Morris writes: "Evolutionists often speak of missing links. They say that the bridge
between man and the apes is the "missing link," the hypothetical ape-like
ancestor of both. But there are supposed missing links all over the
evolutionary tree. For instance, dogs and bears are thought to be
evolutionary cousins, related to each other through a missing link. The
same could be said for every other stop on the tree."

He argues that no one has ever seen a "missing link." Since we don't find them, Creation is the more scientific idea.
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There is a very nice 16 page insert on the life of Henry Morris. Certainly a dedicated person. I wonder what he and Moses are taking about now?

Burgy
Received on Sun May 7 10:10:39 2006