Posted by AF [AF] on April 09, 1999 at 07:47:59 {qzNMJDwJ.2DjRmAxB/kMdaOt1gg/Zk}:
In Reply to: Web site for Noah's Ark posted by WW on April 08, 1999 at 19:21:21:
I took a look at some of Ron Wyatt's newsletters on his website. They contain a wealth of incredibly dumb explanations of all sorts of things. What's amazing is that Wyatt even outdoes Gary LaMotta in coming up with facile but
completely nonsensical "explanations". Let's look at a few.
Wyatt says that dinosaurs were just larger forms of today's reptiles and mammals, and that scientists don't realize this because the bones are much bigger.
Wyatt poses
extremely dumb questions like this:
"Have you ever wondered why we don't find plants and dead animals in the process of petrifying today? If, like the evolutionists want us to believe, all the fossils are from thousands and millions of
years ago, why don't we see things being fossilized today?"
Well, we don't actually see things in the process of petrification because such processes naturally take place underground, where they can't be seen. However, if Wyatt
means why don't we find things in the process of being petrified, then he's just plain wrong. Virtually every buried skeleton has the potential to become petrified, and some have been found. In 1984 Richard Leakey's exploration
party found the partial skeleton of a Homo erectus boy, which was largely petrified. The skeleton was very similar to that of modern humans, except a bit more robust.
Wyatt believes that he has found the house and tombstones of Noah and his wife in Turkey.
How about this gem:
"Experiments in biological warfare and biogenetics have developed the AIDS viruses and resistant strains of old killer diseases that were once thought to be eradicated."
Wyatt predicted that "the end of the world" would come soon, within not more than a few years after 1997, and perhaps even by then.
AF