EVANGELICAL LEADER SAYS, "silly views are killing our faith" Is he right?

Question

Among the 160,000 fossils due to go on display in the the National Museums of Kenya, will be the 5-foot-3 Turkana Boy, whose skeleton had been preserved in marshlands.
Dinosaur fossils and a bone from an early human ancestor, dating back 7 million years, will also be on show along with the bones of short-necked giraffes and elephants whose tusks protrude from their lower jaws.
They provide the clearest and unrivaled record yet of evolution and the origins of man, say scientists.
I did not evolve from Turkana Boy or anything like it," says Bishop Boniface Adoyo, head of Kenya's 35 evangelical denominations, which he claims have 10 million followers. "These sorts of silly views are killing our faith."
Bishop Adoyo has demanded the museum relegate the fossil collection to a back room - along with some kind of notice saying evolution is not a fact but merely one of a number of theories.
Followers of creationism believe in the literal truth of the Genesis account in the Bible that God created the world in six days. Bishop Adoyo believes the world was created 12,000 years ago, with man appearing 6,000 years later. He says each biblical day was equivalent to 1,000 Earth years.
Apparently the good Bishop is not willing to conceed that his "silly views" are not factual and are only one of evangelistic believer theories.
Data From an article in NewsMax.com Wires Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007

Answer 1

The lord put fossils in the ground to tempt us into not believing, just like he put the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden of eden, just like he killed job's family and gave him diseases to temp him to not believe, just like he tested Isaac's faith by telling him to sacrifice his son, just like he told lot and his family to not look back at the holocaust he was raining down on 2 cities which resulted in his wife being killed. He is an angry and jealous god, and delights in tempting us to turn away from him so he can enjoy the times we turn towards him even more.

Answer 2

I doubt it will destroy many of the evangelicals' faith. They're some of the most stubborn people I've ever met. Jesus could return and tell them himself he isn't god, and they would refer to the bible or something to discount what he said.

Like this ignorant guy "lion of judah" on this board. He's sitting here trying to discredit the machine used to date the fossils. He's conveniently relying on a logical argument to support his illogical belief.I bet he would say the same thing when I say his bible/qu'ran's authority is kind of questionable, which I find to be ironic considering all of the inconsistencies in those books. See what these people do? Shove proof in their face and they wouldn't listen. Their minds are effectively closed to all outside arguments.

Answer 3

Yes, I've been reading about this. Apparently the Kenyans are extremely worried that the fossils are under threat of being destroyed by these creationists. Imagine that. I now wonder what has been destroyed already.

Have you ever watched "Daystar" TV? I discovered it recently and can't stop watching. The blatant misinformation and rotton-to-the-core snake-oil BS is shocking - you've got to check it out. I don't know how large their audience is, but they have "experts" on day after day preaching that global warming isn't real (Jesus is coming any day now anyway!), the Clintons are evil, and if you send your money in right now...we'll send you this CD which will cure blindness and connect you instantly with God! GUAR-AN-TEED! (Not an exaggeration). http://ww2.daystar.com/Daystar

What can we do about these people?

Answer 4

So they have finally found the thousands of links between species that Darwin predicted? News to me.

Answer 5

He is wrong. His entire "Make it disappear" so that we don't have to deal with it is completely immature. I tire of some people's drive to censor everything that does not agree with their beliefs.

Answer 6

My irony meter is going off again, beeping out of control.

Answer 7

For one thing, all of this is based on the alledged accuracy of Carbon 14 dating that the secular world says is reliable, I say carbon 14 is not.

carbon-14, is used today by scientists as a method to date once-living organisms. Many people believe that carbon dating disproves the Biblical time scale of history. However, because of the difficulties with current C14 dating techniques, the dates produced have been shown to be faulty.

Carbon-14 is produced in the upper atmosphere by action of cosmic rays. Once the C 14 has been formed, by converting nitrogen-14 into carbon-14, it behaves like ordinary carbon-12, combining with oxygen to give carbon dioxide, and freely cycling through the cells of all plants and animals. Carbon-14 is used for a dating material because once it has been formed, C14 begins to decay radioactively back to nitrogen-14, at a rate of change that can be measured. As soon as an organism dies, the C14 atoms which decay are no longer replaced by new ones through respiration. Consequently, the ratio of C14 to C12 in that once-living organism decreases as time goes on. The problem with the carbon dating method is—scientists can not be sure of what the C14/C12 ratio was when the organism died. Carbon dating assumes that the ratio has remained constant; however, events, such as the industrial revolution, are known to have raised C12 levels. Other possible factors, such as the presence of a water canopy, would have lowered the amount of C14 in the pre-Flood world. Because pre-Flood specimens had so little carbon-14 in them, some might appear to have been decaying for tens of thousands of years. Also, the decay of the earth’s magnetic field would have direct effects on C14 level, again, giving artificially old ages the farther you go back in time. Finally, carbon dating has been shown untrustworthy with some present day aquatic specimens that were concluded to be thousands of years old. For example, the shells of living snails’ were carbon dated and showed that the snails had died 27,000 years ago. Other specimens have been carbon dated more than once, each time producing a different date varying by thousands of years. In overview, we see that the radiocarbon dating method is certainly no embarrassment to the Biblical creationist who believes in a young earth. In fact, when all data, such as the decay of the magnetic field and the canopy, is taken into accord, carbon dating seems to support a young earth.

Evolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of "primitive" life forms to "more complex" systems we observe today. Yet, "since only a small percentage of the earth's surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rock/life/time over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance.1" "[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material. The deficiencies are real, they will never be filled."2 This supposed column is actually saturated with "polystrate fossils" (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame. "[T]o the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation."

Dr. Thomas Barnes, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso, has published the definitive work in this field.4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earth's magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate, demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1,400 years. In practical application its strength 20,000 years ago would approximate that of a magnetic star. Under those conditions many of the atoms necessary for life processes could not form. These data demonstrate that earth's entire history is young, within a few thousand of years

Physicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite. The half-life of this element is 0.000164 seconds! To record the existence of this element in such short time span, the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously.10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form.