Pack Up Everybody! We’re Going On A Dinosaur Hunt!

Last updated on: January 17, 2011 at 7:21 pm by Jeffrey L. Falick

Pack Up Everybody! We’re Going On A Dinosaur Hunt! 2011-01-17T19:21:00-05:00 Jeffrey L. Falick

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I just saw a little gem from Terry Hurlbut, resident creationism expert on examiner.com. It was just too funny not to post.

Hurlbut’s argument today is that contra the scientific establishment, widespread acceptance of creationism would actually improve science and research. If you need a laugh you really should read the entire thing. Here are some highlights and I left in the links to his other brilliant works. I seriously question whether someone who can actually read and write could be this stupid. Maybe he actually works for our side.

[A] creation-oriented society would take scientific education, research, and investigation in a new direction. Astronomers would stop looking for “dark matter” and “dark energy,” and instead develop a uniform cosmology with insights from the Annals of Creation. It would find this model much simpler than the Big Bang model has now become.

Geology would return to its pre-Lyell understanding. The result might, perhaps, lead to improved fossil-fuel exploration….

Zoology would become a much more exciting discipline than it is today…. Expeditions to find live dinosaurs would be more than the stuff of science fiction…and would receive serious attention and funding.

Linguistics would take up the question of whether Hebrew (or a sort of Old High Hebrew) is the original root language of mankind. …And every shipwright in this society would stand in humble awe of the greatest and most important project in the annals of naval architecture. For that matter, serious attempts to reverse-engineer Noah’s Ark might lead to rediscoveries of certain lost shipbuilding arts that would make modern ships safer than they are today.

In short, creationism, far from retarding science, would free it to fulfill its proper role: knowledge and understanding of the true nature of man, and how to live as God intended him to live, rather than a prideful pursuit of “improvements” that turn out to be, quite simply, curses.

Anyone who thinks that creationism isn’t “retarding science” should reflect on what it’s doing to this guy.

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