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Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of the Human Fossils

Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of the Human Fossils is an anti-evolution book written by young earth creationist Marvin L. Lubenow. It was published by Baker Books in 1992.
==Overview==
Lubenow claims that he has a major in anthropology and degrees in theology; he is a devout Christian and young earth creationist.Biography for Marvin L. Lubenow In a nutshell, the book proposes that the human fossil record supports the theory conjecture of special creation rather than evolution. Lubenow has said that he has over 35 years of research in the field of paleoanthropology.Book Description 
The book rejects common descent and any evidence for evolution and claims that the fossil record shows that humans were divinely created by the Christian God.Creationist Website Lubenow rejects the dates of any fossils from the scientific community and argues for a young earth.Creationist Review The purpose of the book was an attempt to show that hominid fossils do not exist.Creationist Review of Bones of Contention Astute readers may have noticed that every one of the points mentioned above is wrong.
==Reception==
The book has been described as pseudoscience by the scientific community. Dr. Colin Groves in a review wrote that Lubenow has not educated himself about the scientific evidence for evolution and misrepresents the fossil record based on his religious beliefs.A review of Bones of Contention: a Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils
==References==
Category:Religious books
Bongo Bongo Land

Bongo Bongo Land is a fictional place somewhere in Africa, according to the country's government website a crazy lunatic from Middlesex.whois According to said lunatic, Bongo Bongo Land is somehow both located in Kenya and "a small landlocked country in Eastern Africa".A weird blog site has gone offline, but the Internet Archive preserved a copy for posterity.
Anyone who mentions Bongo Bongo Land is definitely, certainly and unequivocally a xenophobic racist. They will try to convince the few people who have any interest in them that they aren't racist and that vaguely labelling a whole continent as uncivilized, backward and tribal people is somehow acceptable.
The BBC found that in Tanzania (a real place in Africa) the term "Bongoland" is actually a compliment. You have to be a young native Tanzanian for this to count.The other meaning of Bongoland
==Noted proponents of Bongo Bongo prejudice==
*Tory MP Alan Clark.Archive: Tory MP Alan Clark makes racist 'bongo bongo land' comment
*Godfrey Bloom, UKIP nut.UKIP man denies being a racist again
*Most of UKIP until they realised they had image problems.'Bongo Bongo Land': UKIP bans use of 'outdated' phrase
==Not to be confused with==
* little drums that you tap tunes on.
* and related proponents of the drums.
*Richard Feynman, a guy who has some drums.
* and crew. Noted explorers who can't possibly have been racists, but were because they lived in a time where everybody was.
*Bongoland in Port Orange, Florida, a dilapidated theme parkRuins of Bongoland RoadsideAmerica.com
*Bongo Bongo, one of the boss monsters in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
*Oingo Boingo, Film composer Danny Elfman's band
==External links==
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==References==
Bonobo

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The bonobo (Pan paniscus), historically known as pygmy chimpanzee, lives in central Africa and together with the common chimpanzee is our closest living relative — and the most despised of all monkeysThey're apes, not monkeys, but creationists probably don't care to differentiate (e.g., the so-called Monkey trial). by creationists. Because the two species are not proficient swimmers, the formation of the Congo River 1.5–2 million years ago possibly led to the speciation of the bonobo. Bonobos live south of the river, and thereby were separated from the ancestors of the common chimpanzee, which live north of the river. 
Bonobos have a matriarchal society, with male aggression rare. Sex is used as a way to mediate conflicts and they do not pair-bond. Females are slightly more sexually active than the males, and will engage in genital-to-genital rubbing with other females roughly once every two hours. In addition, the bonobo is well-known for its exuberant sexual activity, seen equally in both genders:
*Using sex as a greeting, a method of avoiding conflict, and a system of post-conflict resolution.Natalie Angier, In the Bonobo World, Female Camaraderie Prevails. Archived from The New York Times, 13 September 2016.
*Using sex for recreation. 
*Enthusiastically indulging in face-to-face genital sex. This is most frequently female-female. But the guys do "get it on", and when they do, it is called penis fencing.
*Practice tongue kissing and oral sex.
All this goes on both within and outside the family and involves adults, children, and infants. And no, just because animals do it, is not a justification for us humans to do it.
Although bonobos mediate conflicts well and exhibit such traits as empathy and affection, they are still wild animals, and likewise, compete heavily over status. Their nickname, "hippie apes", is probably unearned, as violent aggression plays a large part in their social lives. Since females dominate, they are not above coercion, and unlucky males often bear the brunt of female aggression, which can take the form of digits being bitten off and mutilated genitals.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/07/30/swingers}} Males also compete with each other, and females have a preference for higher-ranking males over low-ranking ones.https://skepticink.com/incredulous/2017/10/09/bonobo-myth-demolished/ Lastly, bonobos may not be entirely matriarchal, as sons of high-status females sometimes coerce low-ranking females into mating with them.https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/12/18/the-mommas-boy-strategy-why-bonobo-males-tend-not-to-form-coalitions
Humanity may, or may not, have something to learn from them, like why they are strangely immune to the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus.
==Phylogeny==
Phylogenetic tree showing only extant (living) taxa:Hominidae. Archived from tolweb.org, 5 March 2016.
==See also==
*Frans de Waal
*Sex at Dawn
==Notes==
==References==
Category:African animals
Category:Animals
Category:Biology
Category:Evolution
Category:Hominids
Category:Sexuality
Category:Zoology
Book of Ezekiel

The Book of Ezekiel is a schizophrenic fever dream masquerading as a book of prophecy. It features UFOs, a famous old gospel-song-slash-anatomy-lesson, a rather bizarre passage about God hating pillows, kerchiefs, and a wall; and Chapter 23, the Bible's very own Rule 34, to which every Christian boy has spanked it at least once. God orders Ezekiel to bake bread using his own poop in front of other people, and lie on one side for 390 days, then on the other for 40. At one point Ezekiel eats a scroll, and finds it tasty. His recipe for bibliophagy however would be lost, as later on in the Bible John eats a book, which though tasty, gives him a stomach ache.
When King Nebuchadnezzar was laying siege to the city of Tyre and its destruction seemed a sure thing, Ezekiel boldly prophesied that the king would destroy the city completely, with Yahweh himself assuring that Tyre would not be rebuilt. Already Ezekiel himself also has to quote Yahweh to the effect that Nebuchadnezzar's armies actually failed to conquer Tyre , but as a consolation the deity would let him plunder Egypt instead. History however shows that Nebuchadnezzar failed to invade Egypt as well. Centuries later, Alexander the Great finally did destroy Tyre, and believers have been known to claim this as some kind of belated fulfillment of Ezekiel's original prophecy, conveniently overlooking the fact that he also said Nebuchadnezzar would do the job. Also, Tyre was rebuilt, being mentioned repeatedly already in the New Testament and still existing today. As a prophet, Ezekiel was one big failure.
Like Revelation, Ezekiel is an example of why, these days, we have social workers.
==See also==
*RationalWiki:Annotated Bible/Ezekiel
*Ezekiel's wheel
*Biblical prophecies
==References==
Category:Old Testament
Category:Major and Minor Prophets
Book of Jeremiah

The Book of Jeremiah in the Old Testament is a collection of the writings of the prophet by the same name. Jeremiah foresaw the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II. Jeremiah said that the disaster was ordained by God and recommended that the people offer no resistance. His messages of doom and gloom hurt morale so much that the rulers of the city threw him into a dry well. When Nebuchadnezzar sacked Jerusalem just like Jeremiah said he would, the Babylonian King was so grateful for the psychological warfare waged by Jeremiah to soften up the Jews that he had him taken up out of the cistern and Jeremiah was allowed to go anywhere he wished.
After continuing to be rather vague and unhelpful for the Jews, Jeremiah correctly predicted that they would fail if they resisted the Babylonians (a bit of a no-brainer). When this prediction came true, his compatriots forced him into exile in Egypt, where he presumably died.
 has been annoyingly overused as an inspirational quote. The verse comes from a letter Jeremiah wrote to the King, presumably dictated by God, essentially telling the Jews collectively that God would care for them in the future and bring them out of exile, and until then they should take care for themselves. The next time you see someone quoting it, you can remind them that it has absolutely nothing to do with either of you.
==Authorship, texts, and historical basis==
The book is constructed out of fragments, divided into three sections: oracular or poetic, narrative, and biographical. Mainstream Christian scholarship assumes that it contains the teachings of an actual prophet called Jeremiah, probably assembled shortly after Jerusalem was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar II in 589 BCE.Introduction III. Structure, Authorship, And Date, Asbury Bible Commentary, Bible Gateway The first, oracular section is possibly edited from the words of Jeremiah, while later sections were probably the work of others: his companion Baruch is often credited.
Some of it was probably written before the destruction of Jerusalem (Jeremiah reportedly began his mission around 627 BCE), but the text may or may not have been reshaped during the Jews' exile to match the changed theological environment, when the Deuteronomists edited or rewrote much of the Old Testament. The book contains a good amount of biographical detail about Jeremiah, far more than about most prophets.Introduction to Jeremiah, International Bible Society But it is likely that it was edited to make his story more like that of Moses, with whom he is often associated or compared, for instance the frequent occurence of the number 40, which was also the number of years Moses was in the wilderness.
It exists in both Hebrew (Masoretic) and Greek versions, with the latter notably shorter, missing about ⅛th of the material in the Hebrew. It was almost all originally written in Biblical Hebrew, except one verse in Aramaic.
==See also==
*RationalWiki:Annotated Bible/Jeremiah
==References==
Category:Major and Minor Prophets
Category:Old Testament
Book of Joel

The Book of Joel is one of the minor prophets of the Old Testament. It is a small writing, only a handful of pages. It does however manage to convey some powerful messages while employing imagery found throughout the Old Testament. It manages to prophesy an extremely cliché apocalyptic event, describing some cosmic aberrations preceding a final judgement. 
Joel is also notable for its description of a coming army of "northerners", an idea that also dominates the first few chapters of the Book of Jeremiah. In both of these texts, the coming northern army is considered to be a symbol of impending doom brought on by the Israelites religious apostasy and corruption of justice. 
The coming army is described as follows in :
Extremely similar language fear-mongering about the coming 'northerners' is used in Jeremiah. 
Despite the elaborate threat directly above, God makes a U-turn halfway through the book and ends up promising them his mercy in :
Joel is also interesting for its laughable prophecy that Egypt will become desolate. declares the following:
Unfortunately for Joel, Egypt hasn't been made desolate yet.
==Apocalyptic literature==
The Book of Joel also contains a small piece of apocalyptic literature that is dramatic enough to warrant an analysis. reads as follows:
Here we find the mythological motif of cosmic aberrations, something which is very common in apocalyptic literature. These cosmic aberrations, mainly an eclipse-like event and a blood moon, will apparently precede a universal judgement. All the nations will be gathered in a particular valley and be judged. Writing, images, and concepts like this exist throughout the prophetic literature of the Old Testament. See Biblical prophecies.
==Day of Pentecost==
One of the more important aspects of Joel is that it is cited in the New Testament as having prophesied the Day of Pentecost, an event in which the Holy Spirit descended upon many of the disciples and caused them to speak in tongues. 
The writing referenced is , which reads as follows:
 cites this as having prophesied the Day of Pentecost. The writing is slightly altered. Acts changes the first verse to read "And it shall come to pass in the last days", yet Joel makes no such distinction.
==See also==
*Biblical prophecies
*Book of Zechariah
==References==
Category:Bible
Category:Old Testament
Book of Joshua

The book of Joshua is a massive bloodbath (it actually is) all about Joshua. Joshua was Moses's successor, after the big guy in the sky told Moses that he couldn't enter the Holy Land because he had a hissy fit (so much for the "merciful God"). One of the first cool things to happen is that when the Jews approach the river Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant, the river just stops flowing for a while, and dries up. Then the Jews cross the river.
The next thing they do is circumcise all the male Jews who were born in the desert during the Exodus from Egypt. This probably would have been really, really painful.
God then tells the Jews to commence with the killing of everybody who lived in the holy land, not because they were inherently bad or evil, but because they were "in the way" of the Jews. This poses a sort of ethical question, as it is ostensibly a direct order by God to commit genocide.
==The Captain of the LORD of hosts==
Moses was dead, but the real grunt-work of carving out a Holy Land for the chosen people was just beginning. Joshua was appointed to replace Moses as the leader of the Israelites. On the plains of Jericho before battle was given, the following scene took place:
No one knows who this Captain of the host of the Lord really was. He was at least as holy as the burning bush, because the voice in the burning bush told Moses to take off his shoes too. He was holier than a mere angel, since Joshua worshipped him and did not receive the same rebuke St. John received from an angel he tried to worship in . At the same time he was not the LORD of Hosts Himself, for what sovereign calls himself his own subordinate officer?
==Evidence?==
Of all the cities on the campaign list, only four were inhabited during the usual claimed time period for the events. As we cannot dig in Jerusalem, let's talk about the other three:
* Jericho — while it was a walled city in the stone age, in the bronze age, it was just a small town. There is no evidence on anything happening there.
* Lachish — This city was destroyed during the late bronze age.
* Hazor — Also destroyed during the same time frame.
So, at best, 3 cities, and one was rebuilt in the Egyptian style. Not a good showing.
==See also==
*RationalWiki:Annotated Bible/Joshua
*War crimes
Category:Old Testament History
Book of Lamentations

The Book of Lamentations is a set of five poems supposedly written by Jeremiah, a Jewish "prophet". It is considered to be a fairly firsthand account of the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar and the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE.
==Structure==
The structure is fairly predictable.
*Jews do bad things to upset God.
*God decides to give the Jews yet another incredibly harsh object lesson to see if they'll finally "get it".
*Jews lament what has happened and promise to never upset God again.
*The following Tuesday, the cycle begins anew.
==See also==
*RationalWiki:Annotated_Bible/Lamentations
Category:Old Testament
Category:Blasphemy (probably)
Category:Major and Minor Prophets
Category:Poetry
Book of Psalms

Psalms is an Old Testament book of the Bible that contains 150 poems (or songs) called psalms, one of which (Psalm 119) is exceptionally long. Each psalm is intended to be sung (or performed) individually as part of prayer or worship. Psalms can be categorized by topic including: hymns of praise, hymns of thanksgiving, lamentations, hymns of belief and wisdom, hymns of history, rage,Imprecatory Psalms on Theopedia and liturgical psalms.
Individual psalms are recited throughout the Jewish year, often marking particular events and ceremonies in the local community or synagogue. In any given Christian church, individual psalms are often incorporated into weekly services as well as used at special occasions and events. Christian hymnals are replete with psalms that have been set to music - including famous pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Handel.
American slaves reportedly found comfort in psalms, setting many to music in their spirituals, notably : "On the River of Babylon we sat down and wept".
http://bgc.gospelcom.net/ise/RTpapers/Papers08/Robert%20Smith.pdf
It's not recorded whether they sang - "Happy is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks" - with particular gusto.
==See also==
*RationalWiki:Annotated Bible/Psalm
==References==
Category:Old Testament Wisdom
Category:Old Testament
Category:Poetry
Book of Zechariah

Zechariah is one of the minor prophets of the Old Testament. Yet the Book of Zechariah shouldn't be considered minor at all, since it is fervently apocalyptic and it makes some spectacular prophecies. Zechariah is considered to be one of the first expressions of Jewish eschatology, since it describes an extremely specific universal transfiguration. It contains many beatific visions of a paradisal future. Zechariah opens with a series of visions, yet the eschatological prophecies only begin later on. 
==Notable predictions==
The first notable prediction that is in : 
The spectacular visions continue in Zechariah 9, which begins by predicting the absolute destruction of Israel's enemies. explains the doom of a few major territories:
Zechariah 9 proceeds to describe Israel's messianic king in :
==Zechariah's eschatology==
You'd think that Zechariah couldn't get any stranger, yet this book climaxes with the following obviously acid-inspired chapter:
This chapter, , outlines an obviously eschatological event. It explains a kind of universal transfiguration that will alter the nature of the world forever.
The eschaton depicted in Zechariah appears to go as follows:
#There will be a day in which all the nations of the Earth declare war on Jerusalem.
#God will personally fight for Jerusalem and rot the flesh of their enemies.
#This day will be characterized by continuous, unending light. (Cosmic aberrations are a common mythological motif in apocalyptic literature.)
#God will become King over all the Earth, and his name will become one. (This appears to imply that God will unite the world under one language, an idea that also appears in .)
#The nations that survive this will come and worship God at Jerusalem. (God will apparently withhold rain from anyone who fails to do this.)
Needless to say, Zechariah is a pretty wacky piece of writing.
==See also==
*Bible
*Biblical prophecy
*Book of Isaiah
Category:Christian mythology
Category:Old Testament
Category:Torah
Books of Chronicles

Chronicles are two books of the Bible in which, after a huge shout-out to the author's dead homies, some stuff happens to some people (presumably Jewish people, because this is the Old Testament), but also whomever the Jews were hating on at the time. They get into a war with them, then some of them die, and then some of them beget some others. And in the end all hell has broken loose because someone else won. The Greek translators of the Septuagint, who couldn't take the full tedium of the single-volume Jewish version, divided it into 1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles.
Rather disproving any divine authorship, the Old Testament is hellishly repetitive, and Chronicles begins by rehashing the entire Bible-story-so-far all the way back to Adam. Hence it is widely suspected that it was written (anywhere from the 5th to 2nd century BCE1 and 2 Chronicles, Oxford Bibliographies) by someone who sat down with the earlier parts of the Bible and rewrote them all; some experts think the author might have had other sources, others say no, he really did just copy it all out. He did however make some changes as he was rewriting it: 2 Chronicles is basically the Books of Kings with all references to the northern kingdom of Israel removed, amongst other modifications. Chronicles ends its chronicle with the events of around 540 BCE when Cyrus the Great ended the Israelites' exile in Babylon; this is also the endpoint of the Jewish Tanakh. And after that all was roses for the Jews.
God gets a cameo kicking King David's ass for ordering a census, because accurate enumeration of citizens is an abomination unto the LORD. Seriously, he nearly destroys Jerusalem. Apparently God forgot that back in 2 Samuel he was the one who told David to do it:
So Chronicles represents God's attempt to cover up this rash error. Now the story is:
Yeah, that's the ticket.
==See also==
*RationalWiki:Annotated Bible/1 Chronicles
*RationalWiki:Annotated Bible/2 Chronicles
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Old Testament History
Category:Old Testament
Books of the Maccabees

The Books of Maccabees are ancient books, some of which are accepted by some Christians as Biblical. They are named because they all relate somehow to the Maccabean revolt against Seleucid rule; 1 & 2 Maccabees in particular give an account of that revolt. The remaining books are not specifically about the Maccabean revolt, but are so named because they were seen to relate to it somehow.
*1 Maccabees: believed to have been originally written in Hebrew, although only a Greek translation survives. Accepted by the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church as part of the Old Testament, but not by Jews or Protestants
*2 Maccabees: believed to have been originally written in Greek, which survives. Accepted by the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church as part of the Old Testament, but not by Jews or Protestants.
*3 Maccabees: accepted by the Eastern Orthodox Church, but not by Catholics, Protestants or Jews
*4 Maccabees: accepted by the but not by other Eastern Orthodox Churches, Catholics, Protestants or Jews.
*There are further books sometimes called 5, 6, 7 and 8 Maccabees — and confusingly, 5 Maccabees is used to refer to two completely different works. However, no church has ever accepted these; rather, this naming has been imposed by scholars, since they have similar content to 1—4 Maccabees (and possibly have some common textual history with them)
*1—3 Meqabyan: three books accepted as biblical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Eritrean Orthodox Church, but not by any other Christian group. Their name is derived from the word Maccabees, but they recount different events.
Category:Apocrypha