Bring me the bones of a Sleestak!
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elfsOne of the classic creationist canards is the old, "Until someone brings me a fossil of type Y, I have no reason to believe in the transition of X to Z. Where is the Y fossil?" The half-man, half-monkey, or as Congressman Jack King (R-GA) recently demanded, half man, half fish, and half-newt all rolled into one.
Well, if you go to the Biblical view, you'll see that, in the Garden of Eden, the serpent was a very odd thing. It talked, for one thing. For another, after the Fall God curses it to "crawl on your belly and eat the dust," implying that it had limbs of some kind. It probably looked like a Sleestak from Land of the Lost.
Therefore, I have a challenge for Representative Jack King: Until you bring me the fossilized skeleton of a Sleestak, I have no reason to believe the Book of Genesis to be true.
Well, if you go to the Biblical view, you'll see that, in the Garden of Eden, the serpent was a very odd thing. It talked, for one thing. For another, after the Fall God curses it to "crawl on your belly and eat the dust," implying that it had limbs of some kind. It probably looked like a Sleestak from Land of the Lost.
Therefore, I have a challenge for Representative Jack King: Until you bring me the fossilized skeleton of a Sleestak, I have no reason to believe the Book of Genesis to be true.
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Date: 2011-02-02 08:13 am (UTC)Because be honest. If god knew then even as much as we know now, (he's been purported to know everything, therefore knows more about the universe than we know now), what would he say to a stone-aged goat hearder with intentions to rule the Hebrews? They didn't even have words for numbers past *40*, and even then they used that to mean "Many". Would this god speak to Moses about a universe billions of years old, and unfathomably huge, down to DNA and germs and evolution and dinosaurs?
Don't be silly. The poor man's eyes would glaze over faster than you can say "serpent". It would be like trying to explain the internal workings of a computer to a 2 year old. Noone could understand any of this without a lifetime of preparatory education.
Even better, would any immortal being that is supposedly everywhere at once, have any concept of *time*? What would a day mean to this god? Or a year? Or a billion years?