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Related: About this forumPaleobabble reaches the 5 year mark:
http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/Not entirely about religion, of course, but expeditions to find Noah's Ark, Ezechiel's flying saucers and the like.
A fun site.
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Paleobabble reaches the 5 year mark: (Original Post)
dimbear
May 2013
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I had never before now heard of Ezekiel's flying saucers, and I'm not really sure
struggle4progress
May 2013
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struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)1. I had never before now heard of Ezekiel's flying saucers, and I'm not really sure
I am the better for now having heard of them
Maybe if I become desperate enough for fame and fortune, I'll write my own book: The Loch Ness Monster in Biblical Prophecy, mebbe, or Bigfoot: The Last Lost Tribe of Israel
muriel_volestrangler
(101,158 posts)2. You're too late
Loch Ness monster cited by US schools as evidence that evolution is myth
Pupils attending privately-run Christian schools in the southern state of Louisiana will learn from textbooks next year, which claim Scotlands most famous mythological beast is a living creature.
Thousands of children are to receive publicly-funded vouchers enabling them to attend the schools which follow a strict fundamentalist curriculum.
The Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) programme teaches controversial religious beliefs, aimed at disproving evolution and proving creationism.
Youngsters will be told that if it can be proved that dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time as man, then Darwinism is fatally flawed.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/loch-ness-monster-cited-by-us-schools-as-evidence-that-evolution-is-myth-1-2373903?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
Pupils attending privately-run Christian schools in the southern state of Louisiana will learn from textbooks next year, which claim Scotlands most famous mythological beast is a living creature.
Thousands of children are to receive publicly-funded vouchers enabling them to attend the schools which follow a strict fundamentalist curriculum.
The Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) programme teaches controversial religious beliefs, aimed at disproving evolution and proving creationism.
Youngsters will be told that if it can be proved that dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time as man, then Darwinism is fatally flawed.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/loch-ness-monster-cited-by-us-schools-as-evidence-that-evolution-is-myth-1-2373903?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
We are not saying that the Leviathan of the Bible is necessarily identical with the "Loch Ness monster" or with the "Ogopogo"--nor, of course, that these modern creatures have more than one head--but we are saying that the Bible allows for the existence of "sea monsters." And if the "Loch Ness" monster or "Ogopogo" exist today, they would not have been the end product of an "evolutionary development," nor would they be "living fossils," but God would have created them, and, as water animals, they would have survived Noah's Flood.
http://www.eternalgod.org/qa/7467
http://www.eternalgod.org/qa/7467
The Journal of Mormon History recently published a new investigation into stories suggesting that the giant Sasquatch monster is really Cain, the murderous second son of Adam and Eve.
It may not be the first controversy tackled by new Mormon President, Thomas S. Monson. But the article's author, Matthew Bowman cites a 1919 manuscript describing Hawaiian missionary E. Wesley Smith "being attacked by a huge, hairy creature, whom Smith drives off in the name of Christ" the night before the mission was dedicated. His brother tells him the attacker must've been Cain. ("Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand...a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth." And then he refers him to a story by a celebrated Mormon martyr who was one of Joseph Smith's original twelve apostles.
In 1835, as evening fell, missionary David W. Patten had spotted a figure walking near his mule in Tennessee. His tall, dark body was covered with hair, he wore no clothing, and...
...he replied that he had no home, that he was a wanderer in the earth and traveled to and fro. He said he was a very miserable creature, that he had earnestly sought death during his sojourn upon the earth, but that he could not die, and his mission was to destroy the souls of men.
http://open.salon.com/blog/cloud_9/2009/08/30/lds_bigfoot_may_have_biblical_origins
It may not be the first controversy tackled by new Mormon President, Thomas S. Monson. But the article's author, Matthew Bowman cites a 1919 manuscript describing Hawaiian missionary E. Wesley Smith "being attacked by a huge, hairy creature, whom Smith drives off in the name of Christ" the night before the mission was dedicated. His brother tells him the attacker must've been Cain. ("Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand...a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth." And then he refers him to a story by a celebrated Mormon martyr who was one of Joseph Smith's original twelve apostles.
In 1835, as evening fell, missionary David W. Patten had spotted a figure walking near his mule in Tennessee. His tall, dark body was covered with hair, he wore no clothing, and...
...he replied that he had no home, that he was a wanderer in the earth and traveled to and fro. He said he was a very miserable creature, that he had earnestly sought death during his sojourn upon the earth, but that he could not die, and his mission was to destroy the souls of men.
http://open.salon.com/blog/cloud_9/2009/08/30/lds_bigfoot_may_have_biblical_origins
http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=mormonhistory
Remember, there is always a religious sect that has already claimed something crazier than you have yet imagined.
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)3. It seems I am destined for poverty and obscurity