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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 07/05/2006 : 20:29:17 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
Do you think we'll see anything in the news when the rock analysis is back. 
What rock? What analysis?
I presume these sciency persons are certain enough that their wood is wood that they felt no need to take specimens back for geological dentrological analysis by questionable scientists, perhaps with secret humanist agendas.
Besides, why should they do anything that might guestion the guiding mind of God, who led them to that barren mountaintop, or perhaps expose themselves their God to the laughter ridicule of secularists if the analysis came back as, say, basalt? Then, there's the matter of not wishing to disturb such a holy relic, which has been resting all these centuries exactly where God caused it to land.
A proper headline for this story would have been: "Christian Archaeology Team Finds Rock, Gets Wood."
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/06/2006 : 01:16:43 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
Do you think we'll see anything in the news when the rock analysis is back.
Perhaps, perhaps. But I'm not going get on the horn to my bookie about it just yet. I have a feeling that, whatever the analysis comes back as, the claim will remain the same. It has to, you see, or the credibility of these evangelical adventurers might suffer and that cannot be tolerated. Ever.
I do not recall any claim put forth by these sorts as ever being recanted. Like Bush, they will never say, "D'oh!" under any circumstances, and I really don't understand why. After all, an admission of fallibility when appropriate enhances credibility, at least among those who do their own thinking.
Case in point: Some years back, ICR put forth a story on their site about the discovery of dinosaur bones in Alaska -- stop me if you've heard this one before -- so fresh that they were all but bloody. And they were serious about it, too. The story, and it was a rowser of a tale, hung around the site for a while, even after I sent them an e-mail inquiring as to where I and my good friend, Jack Horner, could view this remarkable find (if memory serves, they brought back an alleged hadrosaur mandible). I didn't get an answer and finally, the claim was taken down. But it did not entirely disappear, no. They put it in a book for sale to the faithful, safely out of the treacherous grasp of my good friend, Jack Horner and myself -- neither of which would ever spend a dime on such crap.
Of course, the hard, cold fact is that I have never had the pleasure of meeting the excellent Professor Horner. They lie to me, I lie to them, and the earth wobbles as it spins on it's axis.... 
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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
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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