With Right Wing Watch, Raw Story and Daily Kos picking up on the Bob Frey dinosaurs and humans testimony from 2004, interest in Frey's anti-evolution views is growing.
And the 2004 testimony related to the state education standards for teaching science isn't a glitch but a feature of Frey's worldview.
Witness a 2005 letter Frey sent to the editors of the Craig Daily Press (Craig, Colorado). In the letter, Letter to the editor tells truth for Satan?, Frey claims that trilobites, an early anthropod that went extinct before the dinosaurs walked on the planet, are still alive today.
The species disappeared in a mass extinction 250 million years ago.
Frey also cites the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum in Crosbyton, Texas, described by Wikipedia as " a creationist museum in Crosbyton, Texas, opened in 1998. Its motto is 'Digging up the facts of God's Creation: One fossil at a time.'"
Much more fun is found in the Roadside America entry for the attraction:
Joe Taylor thinks so. Joe is an artist, a Creationist, and a believer that the Earth has been populated by human giants and unacknowledged monsters. "We have a lot of evidence," said Joe, and it's difficult to argue with him, since it's on display in his museum.
The Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, "the largest Creation Fossil Museum in the world," according to its literature, fills an old downtown department store in Crosbyton, Texas. It is low-tech and hand-built, mostly by Joe. . . .
That theme is echoed in Joe's recreation of an immense human leg bone that reportedly belonged to a 15-foot-tall ancient giant. Joe told us that the bones of human giants are dug up all the time, but that pro-Evolution museums refuse to display them. Why? "If Goliath is true," Joe said, "then maybe the need for a Savior is true, too."
More mundane anti-Evolution evidence is showcased in Joe's "Tons of Dung" exhibit, which asserts that the world's abundant supply of dino crap could have only been fossilized by a massive, rapid flow of mud produced by Noah's Flood.
There's also a museum speciman of a "a stuffed, blood-sucking Chupacabra on loan from another Creationist museum" that looks a lot like a dog.
Here's the text of Letter to the editor tells truth for Satan?:
This is a follow-up comment concerning the letter to the editor from Tim Makinson of New Zealand.
Makinson's observations concerning the dates reported in the article about the trilobites going extinct 5 million to 6 million years ago should have been 500 million to 600 million years ago. They were not printed correctly, but the idea was there.
There are preserved trilobites in formaldehyde at the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum in Crosbyton, Texas, if he wants to see one. There are other trilobites found alive in the Gulf of Mexico that I showed pictures of during my presentation. The main point is, trilobites are not extinct yet.
Whether it's 5 million, 250 million or 600 million years ago is irrelevant. These and many other "momentous discoveries" have been reported and are well-documented, as presented in my seminars.
As for his other claims, there are as many theories of evolution as there are people who believe in it, which is one of the many points in my presentation.
If I am lying for Jesus, does that mean Makinson is telling the truth for Satan?
My five presentations were advertised publicly and were free to the public to attend.
I came to the Craig community not to tell you, but to show you that the claims people such as Makinson make are false, based on lies, fraud and circular reasoning.
He chose not to attend and remains willingly ignorant of the facts presented and the science concerning the topics I present.
My slides and information were footnoted to the original science and studies from which the information came.
Michelle Perry did an excellent article on the presentation she attended, even though some of the numbers weren't printed with enough zeroes, which could have been a typographical error.
There are organizations ever looking at the online news reports, such as this one, to throw false claims, doubt and reversals of facts on communities when they themselves are willingly ignorant concerning the science and events they are commenting upon.
Are there consequences for lying? Our families, communities, country and government are reaping the consequences for teaching the false worldview of evolution as science.
There are only two choices for your worldview --omebody made the world, or the world made itself.
I am showing the public the real facts of science and social effect of believing in a false science and worldview that our country is embracing.
As I showed in my presentation, if anyone has any proof at all of evolution, let's see it. My friend has $250,000 for it and many other similar awards for it.
Makinson says my data is false, which is easy to say from New Zealand and lie to the citizens of Craig about what I said.
Tim wants you to believe that Perry is gullible and that he can set you straight. Makinson is a liar, and I have the scientific evidence that shows it.
Are we to believe that Makinson is credible because he is from New Zealand instead of Minnesota? My observations from visiting your town, several times for the past decade, is that you're a lot smarter than that.
Bob Frey
Norwood, Minn.
Editor's note: Earlier this month, Bob Frey gave presentations at the Yampa Valley Baptist Church, refuting evolution and urging Craig residents to have the teaching of evolution in public schools stopped.
The original article describing Frey's five part lecture series was Speaker calls to Christians: Bob Frey urges end of evolution in schools, 'lying to kids'. Frey's show wasn't confined to Minnesota.
Does Frey still want the science standards changed? Does he believe material from the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum should replace the state's current curriculum?
Such an arrangement might please Aaron Miller's daughter, but we hope they leave the Chupacabra out of the classroom.
Photos: Robert Frey and his giant bone replica (top);Trilobite Walliserops trifurcatusCC BY 2.0 Kevin Walsh - originally posted to Flickr as Trilobite 3 via Wikipedia. Is that Satan's pitchfork or is the trilobite just happy to see you?
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