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maybecca

PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:22 pm


No, seriously. Creationists are claiming that Beowulf is actually a historical story, that Grendel was a T-Rex, and that Beowulf could easily defeat it by ripping off its weak arms coughcoughhovind. At least they don't claim it breathed fire!

Ruth Beechick
Why, then, do so many literature critics say that Beowulf is fiction? It is because they do not believe that dinosaur creatures lived at the same time men lived. Their evolutionary worldview says that dinosaurs lived long ages before men evolved on the earth. Therefore, in their minds, this all must be fiction. But with a Biblical worldview, we can see that dinosaurs entered the ark with Noah—land species at least—and they lived on the earth again after the Flood.

There's really not much I can say about this. It's just... too damn stupid. To steal a friend's reaction, "they are reading Beowulf and saying that in literal existence there were five-foot-tall sentient magical T-Rexes."

Of course, they clearly didn't actually finish reading the damn poem, did they?

Akusai
It just occured to me that if you're going to use Beowulf in a weak but insidious plan to discredit evolution to your child, why make weak arguments that Grendel was a T-Rex? Why not jump forward to the end of the piece and use the ******** dragon? He is, after all, a giant ******** reptile.
PostPosted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:06 pm


rofl

Doesn't much of the source of the legend of Beowulf also contradict massive portions of Scripture in the Bible?

Isn't it counterproductive to use one thing that hurts your beliefs to attempt to beat something else that hurts your beliefs?

Oh wait, I'm expecting creationists to think about this rationally.

That was very unrealistic of me.

^_^

PoeticVengeance


Redem
Captain

PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:33 am


O_o

Oh bloody hell.

Just when I think they've plumbed the depths of rabid stupidity this comes along and shows just how much deeper it can get.

*Sigh*


I wonder how long until someone tries to use this on gaia?
PostPosted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:56 am


I'd start a thread on it in ED, but I know someone would argue that Beechick's right, and my poor brain couldn't handle that.

maybecca


Martian Princess

PostPosted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:35 pm


That was funny until I realized there are people who would buy that argument.
PostPosted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 12:39 pm


o_O What the HELL?!

Ahaha, the dinosaurs are emo!

Sorry, I had to add that in. xd

Muffin Pirate


gigacannon
Crew

PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 6:24 pm


Okay, admittedly, this is dumb. But humans have encountered creatures of mythological proportions as late as two thousand years ago.

The Roc (a giant bird, probably most famous to players of Dungeons and Dragons) was a real organism that is thought to have inhabited Madagascar in approximately Roman times.

Don't ask me to cite evidence. I just remember reading it, not where I ead it from.

EDIT: Nah, it's crap. Mythology is always wrong. I wikied it.
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