David Kennedy passed along this picture of his old KJV with the names of many fundamentalist heroes signed inside the cover.
Today’s challenge is to look at the picture and see how many fundy hero names you can pick out. Some are very well known, others are more obscure.
I have a Bible with Dr. Jack Schaap and Dr. Shelton Smith signatures on the same page!
I have to admit I did a double take. I was wondering how someone got a photo of my old Bible!
Wow! Falwell! I’m kinda impressed. Mostly because I don’t think Falwell ever darkened the door of any building in my fundy life — so BOJy were we.
But I have my Bible siggies too. Ugh:
http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2009/03/the-law-of-thermodorknamics/
Oy.
And I also had the Laws of Thermodynamics scrawled next to Genesis 1. What’s with that? That is so weird!??!
It “proves” that YEC must be true! 😉
It’s YEC. My dad had a 10 minute rant back in the day about how Thermodynamics proved the earth could only be 8,000 to 10,000 years old. Even at the time when I believed YEC, the more he/they tried to prove it “scientifically” the less convinced I was.
That argument from thermodynamics was made, and disproven, back in the 19th century. It only works if you assume that (1) Earth is a closed system, and (2) Earth does not generate any heat of its own. Both of these assumptions turn out to be incorrect.
I of course never had such names as are scrawled here, but wow…does it bring back memories of evangelists, missionaries, and the like. I think they are good…jury is still out.
An evangelist’s wife left her Bible laying around my IFB church a few years ago, and we were looking inside it to see who it belonged to. Well, we found her name, but more interestingly we found Billy Graham’s signature just an inch and a half away from John Van Gelderen’s signature. I thought that was incredibly ironic. . . I wonder which one signed it first? Would John not have signed it if he had seen Billy’s signature? These things we’ll never know. . .
Saw Johnny Pope right away. I guess you have to be familiar with the signature to recognize it, I can’t make out the others. 😳
I think I see a Tom Farrel
Tom Ferrell… I got saved 3, maybe 4 times under that man’s preaching. 🙄