…but you can’t make him think.
Liberty University, that “educational” bastion of blissful ignorance founded by His Blissful Ignorance Jerry Falwell, sends its biology students yearly to the Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. Ostensibly this trip’s purpose to deepen their knowledge of the history of the world and its inhabitants.
Young-earth creationism is an official part of the biology curriculum at Liberty. What the students and the teacher do when they get there is to publicly shove their heads into the sand of religious wingnuttery and pigignorance.
When the 210-million-year-old Morganucodon rat, considered by many biologists as a likely candidate for the first true mammal, was examined by 19-year-old Lauren Dutton, her only comment was
“210 million years, that’s arbitrary. They put that time to make up for what they don’t know.”
A pre-med student remarked
“There is no scientific, biological genetic way that this, this rat, could become you.”
The fact that the DNA of a housefly and that of a human have 90%+ commonality means nothing to someone who wants to be a doctor is frightening.
Marcus Ross, who is a paleontology teacher at Liberty, remarks
“Creationism and evolutionism have different ways of explaining the evidence. The creationist way recognizes the importance of Biblical records…”
What importance? Quite aside from the wholesale theft of mythological concepts the Bible partakes in (creation of the world in a few days, original sin, virgin birth, prophesies of a coming messiah, etc.), there is nothing scholarly about the Bible, and almost certainly nothing historically accurate.
Ross is actually correct about one thing, however. He claims that radiocarbon dating, a process of measuring ratios of radioactive to nonradioactive carbon, cannot be accurate when predicting the age of the earth (4.5 billion years). Radiocarbon dating is not accurate at measuring anything older than about 60,000 years. (Measurements of other radioactive elements is used to determine the age of the earth.)
Ross was right about one more thing:
“The attitude [from others] is when you are a creationist you are ignorant of the facts.”
You can say prayer over that.
