Genesis Park Thesis

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This websites mission statement is to “showcase the evidence that dinosaurs and man were created together and have co-existed throughout history” (Genesis Park, 2014b). As I peruse the website I find that its purpose far exceeds their mission statement. They defend their beliefs by the use of very selective data as well as subtle manipulation of information. For example they defend the Cambrian explosion with a lengthy list of quotes strung together from various scientific articles; that when combined, are suggestive of their purpose. I found a very minimal amount of reliable, scientific references; when I did, it is obvious they chose just the right phrase to remove from its original context in an effort to support their theory. Those that I did find were primarily partial in text citations that required a lengthy search for the parent article. This site uses the Bible to support any physical evidence they found and give links to various biblical passages that incorporate dinosaur-like animals; but also admitted that “some of this remains merely speculation” (Genesis Park, 2014b). The webpage that shows various depictions of dinosaur-like creatures (Genesis Park, 2014c) has a grammatically correct, professional tone and seemingly accurate information on the time period and styles of artwork, but seem to stretch it to defend their belief. Here, on …show more content…
Under the “Essays” tab there is a page titled “Probabilities, Monkeys, and Natural Selection” where I found that they defended the so-called “monkey myth” by taking a Hawking quote far too seriously; “very occasionally by pure chance they will type out one of Shakespeare’s sonnets.” And their attempted professional response; “This is absurd. The assertion that the monkeys *will not* in fact perform this feat is as close as we can get to a scientific fact” (Genesis Park,
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