Fantasy Facts

I keep finding myself bemused by the fact that there seems to be an abundance of what I call 'fantasy facts' roaming the world, on the media, and most especially on the radio. To my chagrin I often hear these fantasy facts from Christians who seem to be advocating that Christians ought to be lining up for lobotomies in the very near future.

Some of the fantasy facts that are roaming around:

The intellectual and scientific case for evolution is beginning to fall.

I guess that I missed this memo. Everything that I read is that evolution is a foundational statement in biology. I've read of no scientist with credible credentials and a measurable IQ raise questions about this. For one, the case against evolution demands that we throw out years and years of dating fossils and affirm that the world was created 6000 years ago despite fossil evidence to the contrary. It means that despite fossil evidence, people and dinosaurs walked the planet at the same time. Oh, and in my Bible, Genesis states that we have a roof over us. I actually met Neil Armstrong and he's a very honest man who never mentioned going through a roof.

We deal with the fact that there is a great deal of revisionist science out there. If science doesn’t give you the answer you want, change the answer.

Global Warming is a myth

Again, to believe this is to believe that scientists are wrong and that the climate changes that we are experiencing globally are really not what scientists think that they are. I’ve read about the scientists who claim that global warming is a myth and I found out who employs most of them. Exxon. Mobil. Shell. BP. Duh.

That separation of church and state was not the desire of the founding fathers.

I find this one to be amazing. Thomas Jefferson declared in the Declaration of Independence that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. This passage makes many people state that Jefferson’s ‘Creator’ was the God of Christianity. These words were not divine revelation to Jefferson. They were, in fact, an adaptation of words written by the English Political Philosopher John Locke who wrote that these rights are life, liberty, and estate (property.) Jefferson would probably not have declared himself to be a Christian or, if he did, he didn’t see himself as much of one. Jefferson edited a version of the Bible to his own liking and found doctrines of Christianity, such as the Trinity, to be absurd and silly. Ben Franklin used to attend revivals because he found them to be entertaining and wrote that it is wise not to carry much cash to them as the preachers were very adept at getting people to part with their money. Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration was very much for a separation of church and state and James Madison, who was a close friend of Jefferson’s, a political ally with the same beliefs, was the primary author of the Constitution.

Interestingly enough it was the Baptists who were real proponents of a strong separation of church and state. Roger Williams, who founded the First Baptist Church in America (in Providence, Rhode Island) was a fierce opponent to mixing church and politics. He fled New England Congregationalism because he found that the Congregationalists of that era were denying people the right to vote unless they joined a Congregational Church. I find that the founding people of this country espoused religious freedom and or a freedom from religion. We are encountering a lot of revisionist history (like the revisionist science) to remake something in an image that we desire.

Lastly, Satan dominates the media.

With this I agree. As long as media people keep selling to Rupert Murdoch, this will not change. Such notable legends as the New York Post, Faux News, and such remind us that there is demonic oversight of much of the media. It goes to show you that not everyone is wrong all the time and that some fantasy facts may actually be true!