The Creation museum: a biblical perspective on dinosaurs and the 7 C's.

Sure you've seen all the mocking tours of the Creation Museum done by deluded atheists. Isn't it time you heard the view of the faithful? No? Well, here you go anyway. In two parts: part 1 (starts at 1h20m) and part 2 (starts at 1h20m).

It's just another way to say FUN!

Big Dig Conference 2007. Bible apologetics for teens has never been so cool!

I heard a commercial for this today while listening to PrimeTime America (Christian news radio). The announcer solemnly asked if your kids would know what to say if the other kids started talking about Darwin or how other religions might be paths to the truth as well.

I must say that the website is surprisingly professional and "hip". Its a testament to how far they have to go to reach out to the kids these days. Man, I'd love to have a video of this conference to dissect later.

Satan's gotta be quakin' in his boots over this one.

The master summarizes his views on Biblical apologetics

http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2007/01/new-articles-online.html

I generally have no taste for discussing biblical contradictions, since I find the matter so boring. Even more boring than bickering over contradictions in Homer. And that's being generous...as literature, in plain aesthetic terms, Homer is quite superior to the Bible, although that's just my opinion. I also find this task largely pointless, since the only people who actually think the bible is inerrant are also insanely dedicated to denying any evidence to the contrary with any baloney hoohah they can pull out of their ass. So what's the point?

I'm not yet fed up with apologetics though I'm probably slowly reaching that point. For me it still has a strange fascination. Sort of like meeting a person who insists that they are the reincarnation of Napoleon. They speak good French, have an amazingly detailed knowledge of Napoleon's battles. After awhile there's really nothing left to do but back away slowly...

You say Jeremiah, I say Zechariah, let's call the whole thing off

Some aspects of Bible apologetics really impress me in a way. Just when I think I have found the killer, no possible response passage, they come up with some plausible explanation. Of course, it's just a matter of showing that something isn't *necessarily* a contradiction, rather than showing it's definitely *not* a contradiction. Not convincing to me personally, but I must tip my hat to their inventiveness. Of course some apologetics is so bad that it seems to require an apology itself. I recently came across this gem from the grand master himself, Augustine. The passage below refers to an apparent error in Matthew that *seems* to be attributing a passage to the wrong book of the Old Testament:

http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/judas.html#otmistake

St. Augustine in his work De Consensu Evang (III 7) said that Matthew knew very well that the sentence came from Zechariah, but he also knew that he was writing at the dictation of the Holy Spirit, and he dared not take the liberty of correcting it. And why did the Holy Spirit dictate an inaccuracy? To show that all the prophets were equally inspired and that it did not matter whether what was said by one was ascribed to another!!

I think the nuttiness of this sort of thinking doesn't require comment, but one thing about this does sort of encourage me. No serious apologist would present this sort of argument these days. So that's some progress...

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