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The Weirdest Book

The Ferret works at the Borders Books and Music Headquarters and there is a "free book room" for employees where they put samples and older books. He ran into this one, scanned a few pages and put them here.

The Weirdest Book I Ever Got
One of the best things about working at the Borders Books and Music headquarters was The Free Book Room.

See, as the world's second-largest book retailer, we were swamped in books of all sorts. Sample books from publishers trying to get in the door, example books that current publishers wanted us to buy, and cartons filled with the good books that everybody wanted.

And:

The strangest book I ever found, however, was a graphic novel:

A Creationist's View of
DINOSAURS
and the
Theory Of Evolution
It had a big dinosaur skull on the cover, and was drawn and written quite competently. The graphic novel featured the author — a balding, white-haired, mustachioed guy in a turtleneck, if the pictures were to be believed — showing all the evidence of dinosaurs, with scanned-in photos next to huge blurbs like "CARBON DATING IS A HIGHLY FLAWED AND IMPERFECT SCIENCE!"

And:

Weird. But not over-the-top. He seemed normal until I got to this panel:

Yes, that's correct; he has the theory that dinosaurs, enraged by fallen angels, attacked Noah's Ark as the flood began in a no-holds battle to the finish.

And yet that was not enough. He illustrated it for a possible movie, claiming it would be far more exciting than Jurassic Park.

Ferret has some scans of the pages:
More at The Ferret's site. I reduced the image sizes and resolution to conserve download time. He is right -- it would be a great movie. It is however not good science and Carbon 14 data is stunningly accurate these days... If you are looking for Noah's Flood, check out the Gibraltar dam breakthrough and its flooding of the Black Sea at the end of the last big Ice Age. Water level in the Black Sea rose several hundred feet in a few months. Bob Ballard (of Titanic Fame) has been investigating this and doing some amazing work. Link here. Posted by DaveH at June 3, 2005 10:38 PM