If there is anything that I should have learned by now, Ken Ham will use any occasion to spew the nonsense of Answers in Genesis. And I mean ANY occasion. The death of Christopher Hitchens, noted public intellectual, journalist and atheist, is no exception at all. Of course, we should expect Ham and his kind to crow at the death of an atheist, one who thought young-earth creationism nonsense and didn't hesitate to say so either. Still, the very visible exhortations of glee from certain quarters is downright sickening to anyone with even a rudimentary sense of morality. I won't shed a tear when Ken Ham dies, but neither will I dance in the streets, as much as I find him an odious human being whose entire life has been dedicated to spreading lies.
Though Ham himself says nothing, he introduces "Two Perspectives on the Passing of an Atheist" which contain much happiness at the death of Hitchens, including a statement that "Hitchens is no longer shaking a fist at his Creator." Never ones to miss a moment to attack evolution, the authors of the two pieces (one by a member of AiG, the other by an "AiG friend" at Vision Forum, notable for their opposition to women in the military, among other issues), use Hitchen's death as an excuse to push their version of Genesis. It is a troubling read.
I should like to draw the reader's attention to just two of the most odious statements of these strutting roosters of creationism. The first comes from Mark Looy at AiG, stating that "Atheists may label actions as good or evil, but in their meaningless, purposeless, and evolution-formed universe, they do not have an ultimate foundation for defining what is good and evil. But God’s Word does." I'm sorry, I seem to have missed the part in the Bible where "lying for Jesus" is good. He also doesn't seem to realize that evolution (in the biological sense) didn't form the universe, but the physical laws did. Evolution led to the diversification of life on earth.
The second instance is from Doug Phillips of Vision Forum, using the oft-repeated Biblical verse "The fool says in his heart 'there is no God'" to attack Hitchens. "Only fools deny what is clear because it has been revealed in creation, in their hearts and in the testimony of Scripture. Fools can be brilliant. They can have numerous degrees and diplomas. But all who say in their heart — “there is no God” are fools. Which is why December 15, 2011 marks the death of one of the most outspoken and notorious “fools” of our lifetime." Hitchens was no fool, but creationists like Ham and Looy certainly are, for promoting such a backwards, anti-scientific and anti-human worldview in the 21st Century.
I'll let Hitchens himself have the last word on this one;
Though Ham himself says nothing, he introduces "Two Perspectives on the Passing of an Atheist" which contain much happiness at the death of Hitchens, including a statement that "Hitchens is no longer shaking a fist at his Creator." Never ones to miss a moment to attack evolution, the authors of the two pieces (one by a member of AiG, the other by an "AiG friend" at Vision Forum, notable for their opposition to women in the military, among other issues), use Hitchen's death as an excuse to push their version of Genesis. It is a troubling read.
I should like to draw the reader's attention to just two of the most odious statements of these strutting roosters of creationism. The first comes from Mark Looy at AiG, stating that "Atheists may label actions as good or evil, but in their meaningless, purposeless, and evolution-formed universe, they do not have an ultimate foundation for defining what is good and evil. But God’s Word does." I'm sorry, I seem to have missed the part in the Bible where "lying for Jesus" is good. He also doesn't seem to realize that evolution (in the biological sense) didn't form the universe, but the physical laws did. Evolution led to the diversification of life on earth.
The second instance is from Doug Phillips of Vision Forum, using the oft-repeated Biblical verse "The fool says in his heart 'there is no God'" to attack Hitchens. "Only fools deny what is clear because it has been revealed in creation, in their hearts and in the testimony of Scripture. Fools can be brilliant. They can have numerous degrees and diplomas. But all who say in their heart — “there is no God” are fools. Which is why December 15, 2011 marks the death of one of the most outspoken and notorious “fools” of our lifetime." Hitchens was no fool, but creationists like Ham and Looy certainly are, for promoting such a backwards, anti-scientific and anti-human worldview in the 21st Century.
I'll let Hitchens himself have the last word on this one;
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