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Patrick Payette #fundie concordmonitor.com

Scientific truths often turn out to be false, PATRICK PAYETTE, Dunbarton - Letter

For the Monitor
August 28. 2006 8:00AM

M
r. Melander's letter regarding his faith in science as truth should probably result in him being awarded a lifetime subscription to NationalGeographic. However, let's look at some of the scientific truths that turned out to be anything but.

Archaeoraptor, the new missing link featured in NationalGeographic, later turned out to be a skeleton of different species of birds and dinosaurs struck together by man.

The following were all hoaxes: Java Man (1891), Piltdown Man (1912), Nebraska Man (1922), Peking Man (1926), Neanderthal Man (1929).

The following quote is from evolutionist D. Watson: "The theory of evolution is universally accepted not because it can be proven, but because the only alternative is special creation (by God), which is clearly incredible."

The explosion of Mount St. Helens left sediment layers that look just like the geologic sediments that evolutionists said took millions of years to form.
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Darwin expected that millions of transitional fossils would be found - animals changing into other animals, but they have never found one.

Living snails were dated by the Carbon 14 methods and said to be 2,300 years old.

Hawaiian lava only a few years old was dated by the potassium-argon method, which calculated their age to be 3 billion years old.

Conversely, a creationist view of the universe has not only never been disproved or found to be a hoax but rather continues to garner evidence that supports it. Do not dismiss the Bible in lieu of unproven theories that have been shoved down your throat since grade school.

Think about it. Does the human body with the brain and all its amazing functions scream intelligent design or random chance?

PATRICK PAYETTE

Dunbarton

Chuck Phelps #fundie concordmonitor.com

The police arrested Ernest Willis, 51, of Gilford, last week in connection with the case, accusing him of raping the [15-years-old] girl twice - once in the back seat of a car he was teaching her to drive in and again after showing up at her Concord home while her parents were away. He was charged with four felonies - two counts of rape and two counts of having sex with a minor, court records show.

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The victim [Tina Anderson] said Phelps told her she would be put up for 'church discipline,' where parishioners go before the congregation to apologize for their sins.

She asked why. 'Pastor Phelps then said that (Willis) may have been 99 percent responsible, but I needed to confess my 1 percent guilt in the situation,' the victim told the police.

'He told me that I should be happy that I didn't live in Old Testament times because I would have been stoned.'

[Bolding and bracketing mine]

N.H. Rep. Dan Dumaine #fundie concordmonitor.com

Rep. Dan Dumaine, a Londonderry (New Hampshire) Republican, told the committee that any religion other than Christianity was "manmade." Two of the five committee members are Jewish.

"The first marriage in the history of mankind was ordained by God, and it was between one man and one woman," Dumaine said. He added that "there's a difference between religion, which is manmade, and Christianity, which is a relationship with Jesus Christ, the son of God, with God through his son. That's a fact."

Dumaine said that what he saw as the true Christian faith would exclude civil unions. "Just because somebody can pick and choose out of the Bible what they want to read and disregard what else they want to read doesn't make them a Christian," he said.