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June 2nd, 2005
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The Weirdest Book I Ever Got

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One of the best things about working at the Borders Books and Music headquarters was The Free Book Room.

See, as the world's second-largest book retailer, we were swamped in books of all sorts. Sample books from publishers trying to get in the door, example books that current publishers wanted us to buy, and cartons filled with the good books that everybody wanted.

The leftovers went into a large janitorial closet that looked like a mini-library, where we could pick them over to our hearts' content. Every four weeks, the Free Book Room was cleansed, the remnants given to charity, and it immediately filled up again. And there were good books there, too, almost all the B- and C-listers; the buyer might not have wanted that new Joe Lansdale or Spider Robinson book, but I sure did.

The strangest book I ever found, however, was a graphic novel:

A Creationist's View of
DINOSAURS
and the
Theory Of Evolution

It had a big dinosaur skull on the cover, and was drawn and written quite competently. The graphic novel featured the author — a balding, white-haired, mustachioed guy in a turtleneck, if the pictures were to be believed — showing all the evidence of dinosaurs, with scanned-in photos next to huge blurbs like "CARBON DATING IS A HIGHLY FLAWED AND IMPERFECT SCIENCE!"

The thing is, he wasn't anti-dinosaur. He spent a lot of time confirming the existence of dinosaurs, then moved to quotes like "Behold the behemoth which I made with thee…. (Job 40:15) and "He moveth his tail like a cedar…." (Job 40:17). This, in turn, was proof that dinosaurs existed — and furthermore, they breathed smoke and fire, just like God said they did.

Weird. But not over-the-top. He seemed normal until I got to this panel:

What might it look like if the dinosaurs attacked Noah\'s Ark?

Yes, that's correct; he has the theory that dinosaurs, enraged by fallen angels, attacked Noah's Ark as the flood began in a no-holds battle to the finish.

And yet that was not enough. He illustrated it for a possible movie, claiming it would be far more exciting than Jurassic Park.

The evil fallen angels stampede the dinosaurs towards Noah's ark...
God made sure the Ark was protected!
The angel of the Lord stopped and repelled both the evil angels and the dinosaurs!
The flood waters drowned and killed the dinosaurs!
This event is not a fable and not a myth - it is a verifiable scentific fact!

And just because I felt like adding one more scan to show you the gist of this:

Chinese people knew about Noah and the Ark!

Alas, I looked up this book on the Internet and it appears that it is no more, or else I'd provide a link to purchase this wonderment. As it is, all you can do is watch the scans and amaze at the movie this could have been.

Incidentally, it would have been better than Jurassic Park. I woulda paid money for it.

(EDIT: If you'd like to purchase the book, more information on it - and the book's creator - can be found here.)

(Tell me I'm full of it)

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From:[info]stevietee
Date:June 2nd, 2005 02:04 pm (UTC)
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Oh, now that's great.

That's everything Jack Chick *wishes* he could be.
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From:[info]khamura
Date:June 2nd, 2005 05:18 pm (UTC)
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And he even does it all without hatemongering! That is almost atypical. :>
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From:[info]misia
Date:June 2nd, 2005 02:04 pm (UTC)
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That is fabulous.
From:[info]copaesthetic
Date:June 2nd, 2005 02:06 pm (UTC)
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That's awesome. The only problem I could see with making it into a movie is how would they explain the existance of black people after the black guy on the Ark didn't make it?
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From:[info]partywhipple
Date:June 2nd, 2005 03:07 pm (UTC)
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LOL I got that.
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From:[info]allah_sulu
Date:June 2nd, 2005 02:07 pm (UTC)
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I recently found (and bought) a book about what to do when the Soviets take over America.
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From:[info]allah_sulu
Date:June 2nd, 2005 02:11 pm (UTC)
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(I need to dig that out)
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From:[info]monenigme
Date:June 2nd, 2005 02:08 pm (UTC)
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Humorous. Yes. Irritating? More. Crazies that make the rest of us creationists look like morons. Yes, there were dinosaurs. Yes, they were destroyed in the flood. A great war where they were used as weapons? OK... that's going a little far even for me. Did he spend a little too much time fantasizing in the Dinotopia world?
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From:[info]timemachinego
Date:June 2nd, 2005 03:07 pm (UTC)
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Um... okay, so believing that a supernatural being created the universe and deliberately destroyed most life on Earth with a huge, punitive flood is perfectly reasonable, but evil angels directing dinosaurs to attack the Ark is ludicrous? You have interesting standards.
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From:[info]cmpriest
Date:June 2nd, 2005 02:11 pm (UTC)
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Well, I'd like to tell you that's weird ... but I was raised Seventh Day Adventist -- and I was told that before the flood the culture was very, very advanced; and dinosaurs were the results of genetic experimentation by these super-sharp antediluvians. Supposedly (church founder and prophet) Ellen G. White said this someplace, but to be fair, I never looked it up.

I was never quite sure how a culture that could manipulate genetics in such a fashion could only scare up a big wood boat when the waters came -- rather than oh, say, a nuclear powered battleship or something.

Anyway.
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From:[info]monenigme
Date:June 2nd, 2005 02:15 pm (UTC)
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LMAO. You do have to wonder how some people adhere to some theories without thought. My friend went to HS where they taught that the sun revolved around the earth and actually had "scientific" proof - I question the validity, but have since never been able to get my hands on a text book.

I suppose that only proves that you truly can prove anything if you really want to.