3 years ago

Episode 35: Jurassic Snark

Episode Notes

For our first episode of the new year, we will spend a little time discussing a positive step for our country in Canon Fodder, and Lemuel visit an interest he’s had since childhood and discuss dinosaurs, and how they fit into the fundamentalist narrative in, The More You Know.

Canon Fodder

2021 has already been quite a year. Within the first week, the sitting president of the United States fanned the flames of a coup attempt, aided by capitol police, that led to the flying of the Confederate flag within the halls of Congress for the first time ever and the death of at least 5 individuals. But that’s not what we are speaking on today- other than to say that this was a violent coup attempt and those that perpetrated it are traitors to the United States. We will undoubtedly speak more on the subject with the distance of time.

We want to talk of happier things today. And so I offer the name Stacy Abrams (pen name Selena Montgomery) for canonization today.

https://fairfight.com/about-stacey-abrams/ https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/the-internets-ecstatic-stacey-abrams-hero-worship-is-icky.html https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/selena-montgomery

The More You Know

Dinosaurs. I like dinosaurs. I started learning about them when I was young, and, as a little boy they were all I could read or talk about. I had many dinosaur books in my library, books that were geared towards children and young people because they had the best illustrations.

When I was about eleven someone gifted me a book on Dinosaurs that was endorsed by the Institute for Creation Research. The book described the wrong headed thinking of secular scientists who taught evolution as a biological process, on people who denied the literal story of the flood of Noah, and, the part that attracted me the most, the idea the dinosaurs might be still with us, lurking in American rainforests, and African Jungles.

For years the ideas in the book stuck with me. I thought it was my responsibility, as a Christian, to believe the ideas in the book, and reject evolution as an idea, because it was represented as being in opposition with my faith.

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