(April 30, 2012 at 6:39 pm)libalchris Wrote: Creationists that I know: Change is limited; evolution can occur, but only on a small scale within species. Dinosaurs? Oh, they didn't get on Noah's ark because they were creatures created by man within a period of less than 2,000 years from genetic experiments. Anybody else know anyone who knows creationists that believe that dinosaurs were created by genetic modification and/or selective breeding?
Well, I know me. Does that count? When I became Christian I was a young-earth creationist who believed that sort of thing. It was inspired mostly by the sort of material that my mother used to read, such as Seventh-Day Adventist books (Ellen White believed dinosaurs were "confused species" produced by "amalgamation" and this is why God destroyed them in the flood) and stuff by Rene Noorbergen (who drew extraordinary conclusions from "ooparts" or out-of-place-artifacts). My rather vivid imagination took stuff like that—in addition to other young-earth creationist beliefs like pre-flood populations being so much smarter and longer-lived because they were still close to the original perfect creation—and created an antediluvian society that was far more technologically advanced than we would expect.
No, I am not kidding. And I just hit "Post Reply," which means I now get to live with this being public knowledge.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
