On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:12:47 +0000 (UTC), Fred Stone
<fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/theferrett/519211.html

The Weirdest Book I Ever Got

One of the best things about working at the Borders Books and Music
headquarters was The Free Book Room.

See, as the world's second-largest book retailer, we were swamped in
books of all sorts. Sample books from publishers trying to get in the
door, example books that current publishers wanted us to buy, and
cartons filled with the good books that everybody wanted.

The leftovers went into a large janitorial closet that looked like a
mini-library, where we could pick them over to our hearts' content.
Every four weeks, the Free Book Room was cleansed, the remnants given
to charity, and it immediately filled up again. And there were good
books there, too, almost all the B- and C-listers; the buyer might not
have wanted that new Joe Lansdale or Spider Robinson book, but I sure
did.

The strangest book I ever found, however, was a graphic novel:

A Creationist's View of
DINOSAURS
and the
Theory Of Evolution

It had a big dinosaur skull on the cover, and was drawn and written
quite competently. The graphic novel featured the author — a balding,
white-haired, mustachioed guy in a turtleneck, if the pictures were to
be believed — showing all the evidence of dinosaurs, with scanned-in
photos next to huge blurbs like "CARBON DATING IS A HIGHLY FLAWED AND
IMPERFECT SCIENCE!"

The thing is, he wasn't anti-dinosaur. He spent a lot of time
confirming the existence of dinosaurs, then moved to quotes like
"Behold the behemoth which I made with thee…. (Job 40:15) and "He
moveth his tail like a cedar…." (Job 40:17). This, in turn, was proof
that dinosaurs existed — and furthermore, they breathed smoke and
fire, just like God said they did.

Weird. But not over-the-top. He seemed normal until I got to this
panel:

[click the link to see some unfortunately blurry scans] :-)

<sheesh>

It turns out the author of this dreck is one Jim Pinkoski, an
associate of the late "great" Ron Wyatt.

Just how loony can these people get?

It had a big dinosaur skull on the cover, and was drawn and written
quite competently. The graphic novel featured the author - a balding,
white-haired, mustachioed guy in a turtleneck, if the pictures were to
be believed - showing all the evidence of dinosaurs, with scanned-in
photos next to huge blurbs like "CARBON DATING IS A HIGHLY FLAWED AND
IMPERFECT SCIENCE!"

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:12:47 +0000 (UTC), in alt.atheism , Fred Stone
<fstone69@earthling.com> in <Xns96D1A503FA58Cfstone69@213.155.197.138>
wrote:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/theferrett/519211.html

The Weirdest Book I Ever Got

One of the best things about working at the Borders Books and Music
headquarters was The Free Book Room.

See, as the world's second-largest book retailer, we were swamped in
books of all sorts. Sample books from publishers trying to get in the
door, example books that current publishers wanted us to buy, and
cartons filled with the good books that everybody wanted.

The leftovers went into a large janitorial closet that looked like a
mini-library, where we could pick them over to our hearts' content.
Every four weeks, the Free Book Room was cleansed, the remnants given
to charity, and it immediately filled up again. And there were good
books there, too, almost all the B- and C-listers; the buyer might not
have wanted that new Joe Lansdale or Spider Robinson book, but I sure
did.

The strangest book I ever found, however, was a graphic novel:

A Creationist's View of
DINOSAURS
and the
Theory Of Evolution

It had a big dinosaur skull on the cover, and was drawn and written
quite competently. The graphic novel featured the author — a balding,
white-haired, mustachioed guy in a turtleneck, if the pictures were to
be believed — showing all the evidence of dinosaurs, with scanned-in
photos next to huge blurbs like "CARBON DATING IS A HIGHLY FLAWED AND
IMPERFECT SCIENCE!"

The thing is, he wasn't anti-dinosaur. He spent a lot of time
confirming the existence of dinosaurs, then moved to quotes like
"Behold the behemoth which I made with thee…. (Job 40:15) and "He
moveth his tail like a cedar…." (Job 40:17). This, in turn, was proof
that dinosaurs existed — and furthermore, they breathed smoke and
fire, just like God said they did.

Weird. But not over-the-top. He seemed normal until I got to this
panel:

[click the link to see some unfortunately blurry scans] :-)

(Scenes were of dinosaurs attacking the Ark.)

It amazes me how many people will defend a literal interpretation of
Genesis and then propose things that go directly against the explicit
statements in Genesis. They will declare science wrong and "God"
right, then claim that, in this case, dinosaurs did not make it onto
the Ark. Yet the Bible explicitly says that all animals that breathed
went to the Ark. They end up with a position that is indefensible from
either a scientific or a literalist position.