So as I’ve been sitting here over the past few days, I’ve been trying to come up with something worthwhile for a first true post on the site after the initial revamp.  I really didn’t have anything until today.

Over the past few months I’ve begun listening to KCBI instead of music when I am out driving. This last week I heard a commercial on the radio for a new Christian website proclaiming to provide new information further confirming events in the book of Genesis as further proof that the story of the Bible is real.  I finally remembered to pull up the website today and take a read because I am interested in these types of things.

Aside from the introduction the site has 5 current pages with “Expositions” which have some fairly deep and in depth information that supposedly helps prove the book of Genesis and should absolutely confound any hardcore evolutionist.  Please note my wording in that last sentence in that it supposedly helps prove the book.  As much as I believe the Bible and like stuff like this, the problem that I have with this site and their writings is that there is ZERO citation, other than a paragraph in their “Strategy” section telling readers to essentially Google it (Not the words they use, but the point).

This is absolutely unbelievable, because they are asking people to get the word out about their website via the radio, word of mouth, etc. and to state this information as fact to evolutionist to see if they can dispute it.

As a Bible believing Christian the very first thing I asked myself is “What are your sources? Telling me to Google it is not a good answer, because you can find anything on Google (or any search engine), and even then, which link or source are you pulling some of your information from?”  As this is the very first question that I ask myself, it is also the very first question that I would expect an evolutionist to ask.  This means you have to be able to answer with something other than “Oh I got this information from <insert website>”, because the very next question is “Ok, then where did they get the information from?” and the answer absolutely cannot be “I don’t know, the website doesn’t say, they just say to look it up on the Internet for yourself”.

I’m sorry, but this is not acceptable, without citation there is practically zero credibility to what this site is trying to say.  There is a reason why people use citations in literature of all sorts, and that is to backup whatever it is they are trying to say with other information that can be verified.

With that said, as the site is fairly new and still trying to “get the word out”, I decided to click the contact us page, and be nice and request that they use some form of accepted citation such as MLA or APA , so that people can tell where they are getting some of their information other than “We got it from the Internet”.

The response I got back:

The material is really original, and the facts of history which are properly interpreted with this new material are easily confirmed via google, such as the greek kings Plato wrote lived in the timeframe of Atlantis.  And I believe the key words to be googled are noted, so I don’t think you have a point.

This response completely blows my mind.  I could respond back to the responder, however, at that point it would just become an argument, because this response is clearly from someone that has no desire for the work that they are supporting to even stand a chance at being viewed as using “Credible” information and something to think about.

I know that this site has never drawn much traffic, and this post will probably be no different, but I would consider it to be extremely rewarding and powerful if somehow this posting generated enough traffic and comments to the originating site so that they will change their policy on this, and use proper MLA or APA citation so that they have some form of basic credibility and cannot instantly be shot down based on the fact that there is none.