Rational Dreaming
Don’t you just love creationists and their fancy toys? As a matter of fact, this “Creation Minute” isn’t that bad as far as presentations go. It is remarkably accurate (for a creationist production) until you get to the very end when Eric Hovind (yes, the son of that jailbird Kent Hovind) quotes from the Bible about the Earth being “God’s footstool”.
Maybe it’s just me, but likening the Earth to the place where God rests his sweaty feet after a long, hard day of smiting isn’t exactly the best way to convey a sense of awe and wonder about the majesty of our home planet.
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Wow, and god made all of those massive stellar bodies for what? For us? To look pretty from one tiny planet in a nondescript corner of the solar system?
Reality or wishful thinking?
Heh. Kind of puts it all into perspective, doesn’t it?
Jesus Himself cleaned the feet of harlots and others.
There are worse things than being a footstool. In fact, Serving as His footstool proves we are Chosen. We know we are Chosen People because God didn’t make the earth to be his jockstrap, something in which he could secure his sweaty balls. God constructed other planets for that.
I think I could have done without that particular mental image…
So if the Earth, at it’s tiny size, is a footstool, what does God use VV Cephi for? Maybe it’s the central heating unit for Heaven.
I’m not sure what the criticism is. Are writers of poetry not allowed to use metaphors or something? Clearly the intent of something like “the Earth is a footstool” is meant to indicate a subservient position. Making fun of the image itself is like making fun of the names of constellations. Good for a laugh, but doesn’t illuminate any real issues.
From the blog post, there are no factual issues, just some literary critique. Sounds like some good stuff.
Russ, you are correct, the footstool imagery is a literary device. It just struck me as a rather discordant ending to a video that quite effectively (for a creationist effort) illustrates the immense scale of our galaxy.
Of course, it is a little ironic for Hovind to be using the footstool metaphor considering the amount of time creationists spend criticizing scientists for minimizing the importance of Earth in the cosmos.
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Earthlings are ignorant and self centered. To think that ‘Earth’ is such a special place in the midst of a vast untraveled universe. Americans are to the planet as Earthlings are to the universe.