Responses About Dinosaurs
A large number of readers responded to
my letter of a couple weeks ago in which I stated that both
the Star-Telegram and the Fort Worth Museum of Science and
History were wrong in their contention that dinosaurs were
the result of blind evolution and that they lived 100 million
years ago. I
stated that this view is based on a biased evolutionary framework
that denies both the Bible as well as the scientific findings
of thousands of scientists with advanced degrees in many
different fields of study. Most
of the respondents thought that my view was ludicrous and
that it denied the “fact” of evolution that is held my everyone
with a any knowledge of science.
In response, consider this: First,
according to studies, the belief that God created human beings
and all animals, fully developed, during a six-literal-day
creation is believed by about 50 percent of Americas. Regardless
of whether it is accepted or not, we must reckon with the
fact that large numbers of people from all walks of life
do believe what I stated. It
should not be discarded as a view held by a few fanatics.
Second, a relatively recent literal creation
agrees with a literal reading of the creation of the world
in Genesis 1. It
further agrees with what Moses wrote (Exodus 20:11). And
Jesus said that man and woman have been on earth from the
very beginning of the world (Mark 10:6). Surely
dinosaurs are as old as man, thus they were contemporaneous.
Third, dozens of reliable volumes written
by degreed scientists offer dozens of evidences of a recent
creation of not more than about 10,000 years ago. This
evidence should be examined by open-minded readers.
Fourth, although unbelieving, atheistic,
or liberal evolutionary theorists do control most major universities
and much of the media, there are yet thousands of creation
scientists of many disciplines with earned advanced scientific
degrees who believe in a recent creation and assert that
both man and dinosaurs were contemporaries.
Fifth, the honest and
unbiased reader may inquire further by consulting the Institute
for Creation
Research in San Diego (www.icr.org)
that has a membership of numerous scientists. Further,
the reader may seek information from other creation organizations
and educational institutions (www.answersingenesis.org,www.creationanswers.net, www.apologeticspress.org, www.nwcreation.net, www.amport.com).
These are some of the reasons why I wrote
my original letter, charging that it is unfair for museums
to present the evolutionary theory and wrong for schools
to teach an unfounded view that purports to be scientific,
especially while overlooking the creation view that has ample
scientific evidence.
Richard Hollerman
STAR-TELEGRAM
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