G. Thomas Sharp is a grand old man of creationism. That is, Sharp
is hardly a central authority, but he has been in the game doing his small
contributions to damage awfully long. Even back in the sixties Sharp, at that
time already an experienced “science educator” and pastor in Alabama, started
researching what he perceived as the roots of the staggering domestic problems
in the lives of his church members and students, culminating – in 1985 – in his
three-volume Science According to Moses.
The books “revealed” that Darwinian evolutionism has lead to the downfall of the
Bible (creation in particular) as the foundation of America’s worldview, thus
giving apparent “scientific” sanction to the moral decline of society, and
therefore promoting the need for “a return to our Biblical foundation (Genesis
1-11) in complete faith and practice”. Sharp formed the Creation Truth
Foundation, Inc. in 1989 to do precisely that. As of 2009, at least, he was still touring with his sideshow through the Bible Belt,
giving presentations such as “The Truth About Dinosaurs”, “A Thousand Years in
a Day: The Mount St. Helens Catastrophe”, “Radiometric Dating” (actually, he
seems to leave that to one Charles Jackson), and “Evolution: The Greatest
Deception of All Time”. Here is a summary of his presentation on dinosaurs. The reviewer was not impressed.
Sharp’s main points seem to be that if death was in the
world before humans (Adam) existed, then humans were not responsible for the
Fall, and thus Christ’s sacrifice is meaningless. “Liberal social engineers”
and “the uncircumcised philistines of Hollywood” (his words) deliberately use
dinosaurs as candy to lead children away from Christ into the windowless van of
secular humanism; and “never, ever take a scientist’s word, no matter how many
degrees or studies he has, over the word of God.” Why, pray, don’t scientists
pay proper attention to tour-de-force arguments like these?
Diagnosis: There is no point in bothering trying to refute
delusional morons like Sharp, who won’t hesitate to argue in bad faith if it
serves his overall point (Jesus). But at least I hope we can help civilization
by exposing him, if only just a little.
G.D.,
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