Featured Fundie Christians Think The Flintstones was a Documentary

Honestly, a dinosaur carousel is an extremely cool idea and I would, fully grown, attempt to ride it. I went on a normal one exactly once as a kid, an extremely fun day. A dinosaur one is now on my bucket list.

 

Or they watch too much Jurassic World.

 

I wonder what kind of creepy music would go good with a dinosaur carousel?

 

Preselected before they get there.

 

That's kind of odd, IMO, because I've heard some fundamentalist Christians insist that dinosaurs never existed, and the Earth is only around 6,000 years old. They claim that the so-called fossils of dinosaurs were planted by demons in order to trick people into doubting the existence of God, and into believing evolution ("the devil's doctrine"). I don't know if this is a common belief among these particular Christians or not, but I've encountered a few of them online on a couple of Christian message boards.

 

This comes off as a huge misrepresentation of Christian Weltanschauung, but what’s new.

I’ve been around Christians most of my life, in numerous cities across several states. My relationships with them have been overwhelmingly positive. In all our discussions about creation/ Genesis/ evolution/ etc, the general consensus appears to be some version of ‘guided evolution’ with the “days” in Genesis being aeons... and the Holy Bible being a guide of how to live your life, with a mix of parables about human nature, possibly misinterpreted events, and genuine history.

Contrary to popular belief, the vast majority appear to accept and embrace concepts of evolution and creationism in perfect harmony. Most that I have spoken with do not subscribe to any “young earth” views and most certainly not the “Satan planted the dinosaur fossils” idea that atheists so frequently bring up when mocking them.

A handful of the more interesting Christians I’ve conversed with- people with a tendency to really think outside the box when brainstorming ideas and enjoy coming up with alternate ways to interpret a story- have definitely brought up questions over whether or not descriptions of certain large beasts in biblical lore such as “behemoth” and “leviathan” might have been describing some some species of possibly not-yet-extinct in those times dinosaur, but no matter the end result of those conversations it never really seemed to have any significant impact on how they live their lives as a Christian and what they genuinely believe in regards to scripture.

 

Sounds like you dont hang with the trailer park crowd

 

Is that even possible (without invoking a no-true-Scotsman)?
Ken Ham is a Christian (by own admission, do you doubt that) and it is his Weltanschauung, ergo it is a Christian Weltanschauung. No misrepresentation there.

 

Jesus' instructions to remove troublesome troublesome body parts is clearly hyperbolic. The point is to avoid the occasions of sin not to mutilate yourself.

As for the creation account I'm sympathetic to the young earth creationists in that I think they're right about the intended interpretation of the opening chapters of Genesis. I think the creation account was intended by the authors to be taken literally. But I think they're wrong in asserting that Christians are therefore bound to a literal interpretation of the aforementioned creation account. A belief in a six-thousand year old creation is indefensible.

 

You'll find a wide spectrum of opinions in the anti-evolution sphere of thought.

 

Common sense and context. Saying the Bible should be interpreted literally is not the same as saying that everything in the Bible is literal. It's not cherry-picking in the slightest to take creation literally while seeing Jesus' amputation advice as a hyperbolic statement meant to make a point about avoiding sin.