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I am sorry that I did not get around to wishing readers a happy St. George’s Day until now. Perhaps it ought to be a young-earth creationist holiday. Ken Ham claims that the legends about St. George and the dragon are proof that humans and dinosaurs (including some that breathed fire, if the billboards for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[662,2844,2845,3327,3328,4692,6131,7845,7860,10684,11774,14016,14019],"class_list":["post-14161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-young-earth-creationism","tag-answers-in-genesis","tag-dragon","tag-dragons","tag-fairy-tale","tag-fairy-tales","tag-holiday","tag-ken-ham","tag-myth","tag-myths","tag-saint","tag-st-george","tag-young-earth-creationism","tag-young-earth-creationists"],"yoast_head":"\n
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