Religious nut Ken Ham... what a moron!

It's idiotic garbage that Ken Ham spews out that keep rational people running as far away from religion as they can get! In particular I'm talking about his writings that state:

"However, scientists do not dig up anything labeled with those ages. They only uncover dead dinosaurs (i.e., their bones), and their bones do not have labels attached telling how old they are. The idea of millions of years of evolution is just the evolutionists’ story about the past. No scientist was there to see the dinosaurs live through this supposed dinosaur age. In fact, there is no proof whatsoever that the world and its fossil layers are millions of years old. No scientist observed dinosaurs die. Scientists only find the bones in the here and now, and because many of them are evolutionists, they try to fit the story of the dinosaurs into their view."

In reading the above statement from Ken Ham, I get an image of Archie Bunker (of the old TV show "All in the family") saying something like this, but then I think to myself that even Archie Bunker could not possibly utter something this stupid!

So Mr. Ken Ham is basically saying that because the dinosaur bones have no labels on them stating how old they are, we therefore have no idea how old they are, and we are dreaming up a story about their age to fit our evolutionists’ idea. Excuse me? What about carbon dating, which is a scientific method of dating objects and has been proven to be at least somewhat accurate! This obviously blows apart his statement of "...no proof whatsoever that the world and its fossil layers are millions of years old". It appears that Mr. Ham believes that scientists are just a bunch of people who are all feeding into a grand conspiracy to trick the world into believing their side of the story. Never mind all the proof, huh Mr. Ham?

While we're at it, let's apply Mr. Ham's "logic" to religion itself, shall we? So he states that because no scientist has ever actually seen a dinosaur, and because fossils have no labels telling us how old they are, then we cannot possibly accept any fact about them, regardless of all the data we have on them. OK, fine, so let's apply this to the bible. No scientist has ever seen anyone write the bible, therefore by his same "logic", it appears that we cannot know anything about it, and cannot be certain of when it was written, who wrote it, what it was based on, so on and so forth. So basically his "logic" that blows apart science also blows apart religion and the bible. Of course no scientist has ever seen god either, so of course this means by Mr. Ham's "logic" that we cannot then know that one exists.

Mr. Ham has it all totally backwards. He believes that scientists already have a preconceived notion as to how things are, and then fabricate data in order to support it. Nope, sorry, that's not the way it works. Scientists first analyze the data, and then based on their findings, come up with a theory that matches the data. A good scientist is also always ready to put any theory to the test, and will see how any further data either fits, or does not fit the theory. So when Mr. Ham states "...fit the story of the dinosaurs into their view", he is being ludicrous! The scientists do not have a "view", and they do not have a "story". What they have is cold, hard, proven data that points to a theory that is based purely on data and observations.

As if the above statement from Mr. Ham wasn't idiotic enough, he then goes on to say:

"As you add up all of the dates, and accepting that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to Earth almost 2000 years ago, we come to the conclusion that the creation of the Earth and animals (including the dinosaurs) occurred only thousands of years ago (perhaps only 6000!), not millions of years. Thus, if the Bible is right (and it is!), dinosaurs must have lived within the past thousands of years."

So here we go again. The bible is apparently "right", regardless of the fact that their is no proof, and I guess it's "right" because he says it is. Of course this then means that science is wrong, regardless of all the proven data and facts that they have. Interesting that the whole concept of creationism and the bible is "right", though it has no proof or data to back it up, and all of science is wrong, though it has all the data and facts that one cares to view. This guy also truly believes that the dinosaurs are only a few thousand years old! Are you serious? Oh, but that's right, I keep forgetting that all that scientific carbon dating and such is just all nonsense.

It's people like Mr. Ham that I have a problem with, and it's a shame that someone like this spews out all this nonsense, and actually wants to be taken seriously, as it gives religion a bad name. I have no problem if someone wants to believe in god, and hold the bible dear to them so as to go through life with meaning. By all means use the teachings in the bible in order to be more compassionate, and loving towards your fellow man.

However, when someone this radical steps up to the plate, and states that every literal interpretation of the bible is fact, and anything that goes against it is wrong, even in the face of cold, hard scientific data, then that's where I have to draw the line.

Being an atheist I am of course going to side with science. But I'm also not just siding with science, but am siding with the data and facts that we can all view and come to a conclusion about. That said, for all I know, there is a god. However, I am not about to believe in such a far fetched concept just because a book was written thousands of years ago by many generations of people, and based on, for all I know, just their imagination!

That said, is it any more credible that we all evolved from a few cells of life swimming around in the primordial soup a billion years ago? Granted, that does sound far fetched, but for me, so does the idea that some supreme being created it all, then stepped aside to allow us to run amuck and screw everything up. The thing is, there is more evidence to prove evolution than creationism, regardless of how hard it is for one to get their brains wrapped around it.

I guess the bottom line for me is that if you are going to be religious, and accept the bible, then at least also accept the fact that science makes sense, and though they don't have all the answers, you really cannot ignore the data.