Dave
>OK folks--I could use your help.
>
>Our church booktable was recently "graced" by a (well, I think I can say this
>here...) HORRENDOUS book for children entitled "Dinosaurs and the Bible". I
>knew I was in trouble when the preface essentially drew a line in the sand
>between "Scientists" (boo hiss) and "The Word of God". Actually, I should have
>guessed what was coming from the cover illustration of Dinosaurs cavorting
>around the Ark...but I digress. The book "majored" on attempting to show that
>Dinosaurs and humans lived together (insert Paluxy river tracks here) and maybe
>still lived today (Japanese "rotting undersea pleisiosaur" picture,
>word-of-mouth reports from the Congo...). There was even a page detailed how
>Tyrannosaurs might have been created to eat fruit--thereby suggesting that they
>could have lived in a death-free, pre-Fall world as well.
>
>I *diplomatically* (really!) suggested to our manager that I didn't think that
>it was a very good book, mentioned that even ICR was distancing itself from the
>Paluxy river stuff, etc.... and was openly received for (perhaps in spite of?)
>my views. (Actually--I feel fortunate that our church generally refrains from
>litmus tests...) Now this week, she specifically approached me and asked if I
>knew of any children's resources that might be better! Of course, dinos are a
>big deal--I have a 4 year old too--and I'm stumped for ideas.
>
>So I submit this to you--what do you know of that is creationist in *theology*,
>but open to taking the "book of nature" at face value? Sort of "Hugh Ross for
>kids". I eagerly await your answers...
>
>Scott
>
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>University of Minnesota MD/PhD Program
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> The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly.
> The rich have always objected to being governed at all.
> --G.K. Chesterton.
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David K. Probst, Ph.D.
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