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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 05/20/2008 : 03:43:22
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....since Ham opened his Creation 'Museum.' Happy freakin' birthday!
I gotta hand it to him; he's managed to rip off the public intellectually, spiritually, and fiscally as few others have. I'm sure that he will continue to do so. On that note, here's his birthday article:
"Some could call it an “evolution” of a vision. This month, we celebrate its one-year anniversary. The vision started over 30 years ago, when—as a public school science teacher in Australia—I took my students to a local natural history museum.
Throughout, there were signs about millions of years and references to evolution—all presented as fact. As I watched my own students and hundreds of other young people there, I realized this same situation was playing out daily in cities around the world. That's where a “fire in my bones” started. I thought that a creation museum could reach generations of young people with the truth of God's infallible Word and refute evolutionary teaching.
Not long after, what was to become the leading creation ministry in Australia started in our home. One of the founding board members, John Thallon, and I talked about my burden to build a major creation-based museum. At one point, both of us knelt down on some land in Australia and prayed that the Lord would one day provide a place to build such a museum.
Despite our burden, nothing seemed to happen in answer to this prayer at first. However, the Australian ministry grew, and soon I was invited to do speaking tours in America. In 1987, our family moved to the U.S. to become “missionaries to America” where I worked with the Institute for Creation Research (founded by Dr. Henry Morris). The goal was to call the church in the U.S. back to the authority of the Word of God.
After seven amazing years at ICR, instead of returning to Australia, I saw the Lord opening the way for the Answers in Genesis ministry to be founded—and for the Creation Museum to be built—here in America. The Lord brought two very special men into my life while working with ICR. Mark Looy had worked in Christian radio in San Diego and had also helped ICR organize the major Back to Genesis conferences. Mike Zovath, who had just retired from the military, came to ICR to work with Mark as a seminar coordinator. In retirement, Mike wanted to do something significant for the Lord. Both of these men worked with me on various speaking events."
We all know the story of this mechanized den of deceit, and the rest of the screed is just as smarmy and self-congratulatory as the above, so you might not want to bother opening it. I've read it so's you don't have to.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2008 : 07:03:03 [Permalink]
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Well, it's been about a year now.....
