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Posted on 08/27/2005 9:28:07 PM PDT by Crackingham
Dinny the roadside dinosaur has found religion. The 45-foot-high concrete apatosaurus has towered over Interstate 10 near Palm Springs for nearly three decades as a kitschy prehistoric pit stop for tourists. Now he is the star of a renovated attraction that disputes the fact that dinosaurs died off millions of years before humans first walked the planet.
Dinny's new owners, pointing to the Book of Genesis, contend that most dinosaurs arrived on Earth the same day as Adam and Eve, some 6,000 years ago, and later marched two by two onto Noah's Ark. The gift shop at the attraction, called the Cabazon Dinosaurs, sells toy dinosaurs whose labels warn, "Don't swallow it! The fossil record does not support evolution."
The Cabazon Dinosaurs join at least half a dozen other roadside attractions nationwide that use the giant reptiles' popularity in seeking to win converts to creationism. And more are on the way.
"We're putting evolutionists on notice: We're taking the dinosaurs back," said Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, a Christian group building a $25-million creationist museum in Petersburg, Ky., that's already overrun with model sauropods and velociraptors.
"They're used to teach people that there's no God, and they're used to brainwash people," he said. "Evolutionists get very upset when we use dinosaurs. That's their star."
The nation's top paleontologists find the creation theory preposterous and say children are being misled by dinosaur exhibits that take the Jurassic out of "Jurassic Park."
"Dinosaurs lived in the Garden of Eden, and Noah's Ark? Give me a break," said Kevin Padian, curator at the University of California Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley and president of National Center for Science Education, an Oakland group that supports teaching evolution. "For them, 'The Flintstones' is a documentary."
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I thought it was more like 10,000 years ago.
In other news, two morons do their part to ruin the world for the rest of us.
"For them, 'The Flintstones' is a documentary."
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I like this guys sense of humor.
Darwinists runing scared Bump!
These people do make evolution sound intelligent.
Had a nice maniraptoran theropod Caesar salad for supper tonight......
That's "chicken" to all you creationists out there.
Tyrannosaurs didn't walk the Earth with Neanderthal and Cro Magnon.....but dinosaurs aren't gone. Go to KFC and get a bucket full of their body parts. Yum!
Moron alert!
How did the dinosaurs fit in the ark?
Maybe they weren't on the ark and that's why they went extinct.
It is actively propogated by those who want to live as they wish, with no thought of the Creator who will ultimately call them to account for every idle word, every deed done in secret. It is believed by those who will not think for themsleves and let the evidence - not the desired outcome - guide them.
The above article says they "marched two by two onto the ark". That is why I asked :)
The word of God, which fools disregard, speaks of behemoth and leviathan. It is probable the catastrophic event that killed them was none other than the deluge. This would have reduced the atmospheric pressure (the water existed in a canopy above the earth prior to that) and thus the oxygen density, making it impossible for such creatures to survive. This would also explain the fossils mixed up and concentrated in certain area, with the "fines" (smaller specimens) sinking further down.
They were hatchlings perhaps?
[Organizers at Creation Research of the North Coast in Humboldt County, Calif., dream of building their own reptile park but lack funding and acreage]
That's not all they lack.
Ol' Bishop Ussher and his "calculation" can be seen in all its nonsensical glory at:
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/ussher.htm
[The Texas museum sponsors a continuing hunt for living pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea. Baugh said five colleagues have spotted the flying dinosaurs, "but all the sightings were made after dark, and we were not able to capture the creatures."]
This is my favorite line.
Joe Barbera wrote Genesis??
Now I've got to go and wonder why mean ol' Jim Rob banned Sabertooth..
What are you talking about? What do you mean by 'Moron alert!'?
"The Texas museum sponsors a continuing hunt for living pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea. Baugh said five colleagues have spotted the flying dinosaurs, "but all the sightings were made after dark, and we were not able to capture the creatures.""
The are hunting for dinosaurs in Papua New Guinea but can not afford nightvision/IR cameras?
macroevolution is a myth? Sorry to bust your bubble...
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
Genesis 1:2 doesn't even come close to describing such an event.
Really, what does without form and void mean?
It means just what it says - the earth was a lump of rock awaiting God to give it form. God had just created it and was now going to form it and populate it. There is absolutely nothing in the text to suggest that the earth had form or life prior to this.
Just something to think about...
more proof that money and brains are not necissarily correlated.
nor spelling
You're saying the Hebrew rendered as "in vain" in Isaiah 45:18 is the same word rendered as "void" in Genesis 1:2? And the word implies an actual event? If so, there seems to be a great deal lost in the translation - neither rendering implies a cataclysmic event. It's late, or I'd look into this more, but it really doesn't look like Isaiah is saying anything here other than the fact that God had a purpose in creating the Earth.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Just something to think about...
To my knowledge the only translations that render it "replenish" are modern revisions of the KJV. The NKJV, NASB, NIV and 1611 KJV (I believe - I'm not 100% certain on that last one) all render it "fill".
Just realized the quote from Genesis 1:28 wasn't from you. Sorry about that.
Just something to think about...
To my knowledge the only translations that render it "replenish" are modern revisions of the KJV. The NKJV, NASB, NIV and 1611 KJV (I believe - I'm not 100% certain on that last one) all render it "fill".
"Joe Barbera wrote Genesis??"
Well he a "creator" to Fred Flintstone.
For your perusing pleasure:
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This Is From The Companion Bible.
That created = the Creator of. Note how these expressions are heaped together to impress us with the fact that the One Who created all ought to be able to tell us, better than ignorant man, how He created it. We are not told how, when, or why, or how long it lasted. When geologists have settled how many years they require, they may place them between verses 1 and 2 of Genesis 1. In Genesis 1:2-2:4, we have "the heavens and the earth which are now" of 2Peter 3:7. Both are set in contrast with the "new heavens and the new earth" of 2Peter 3:13. 1The Lord = Hebrew; Yehovah
This Is From The Companion Bible.
1. "THE WORLD THAT THEN WAS" (2Peter 3:5,6). See Structure, page 1. Creation in eternity past, to which all Fossils and "Remains" belongs. God. Hebrew Elohim, plural. First occurence connects it with creation, and denotes, by usage, the Creator in relation to His creatures. See Appendix 4. The Hebrew accent Athnach places the emphasis, and gives pause, on "God" as being Himself the great worker, separating the Worker from His work. created (sing.). Occurs 6 times in this Introduction. Other acts 46 times. See Appendix 5. Perfection implied. Deuteronomy 32:4. 2Samuel 22:31. Job 38:7. Pslams 111; 147:3-5. Proverbs 3:19. Ecclesiastes 3:11-14. [Even the Greek Cosmos = ornament. Exodus 33:4-6. Isaiah 49:18. Jeremiah 4:30. Ezekiel 7:20. 1Peter 3:3] the heaven and the earth. With Hebrew Particle 'eth before each, emphasising the Article "the", and thus distinguishing both from 2:1. "Heavens" in Hebrew always in plural. See note on Deuteronomy 4:26.
2. And. Note the Figure of Speech Polysyndeton (See appendix 6), by which, in the 34 verses of this Introduction, each one of 102 separate acts are emphasised; and the important word "God" in verse 1 is carried like a lamp through the whole of this Introduction (1:1 - 2:3). the earth. Figure of Speech Anadiplosis. See appendix 6. was = become. See Genesis 2:7; 4:3; 9:15; 19:26. Exodus 32:1. Deuteronomy 27:9. 2Samuel 7:24, etc. Also rendered came to pass, Genesis 4:14; 22:1; 23:1; 27:1. Joshua 4:1; 5:1. 1Kings 13:32. Isaiah 14:24 etc. Also rendered be (in the sense of become), verse 3 etc., and where the verb "to be" is not in italic type. Hence, Exodus 3:1, kept=became keeper, quit = become men, etc. See Appendix 7. without form = waste. Hebrew tohu va bohu. Figure of Speech Paronomasia See appendix 6. Not created tohu (Isaiah 45:18 See Above), but became tohu (Genesis 1:2. 2Peter 3:5,6). "An enemy hath done this" (Matthew 13:25,28,39. compare 1Corithians 14:33). See Appendix 8. was. This is the italic type, because no verb "to be" in Hebrew (see Appendix 7). In like manner man became a ruin (Genesis 3. Psalms 14:1-3; 51:5; 53:1-3. Ecclesiastes 7:20. Romans 7:18). face. Figure of Speech Pleonasm. See appendix 6. the Spirit of God moved (see Appendix 9) = The beginning of "the heavens and the earth which are now" (2Peter 3:7). It is even so in the New Creation. The Spirit moves (John 3:3-8. Romans 8:5,9,14. Galatians 4:29. 2Corinthians 5:17,18).
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OK then, to paraphrase Marc Bolan, you won't fool the children of the macroevolution. Boogie on!
Man, these fools are laughable. Probably the same folks who put all their money in gold before Y2K.
choose what you want to believe. doesn't bother or impact me. (and i haven't stated my position.) both take equal faith but one sounds less preponderous because a 'billion years' is a really, really long time -- so it must be more reasonable.
once those harvard folk determine the 'origin of life' let me know when they conclusively find the origin of time, space, and matter.
for these people in the forum to think that debating evolution/creationism is going to change anyone's mind is silly. a person's worldview (either side) better not be so flimsily based in their life.
Well, I happen to believe that! And I am not brain dead as you might suppose.
There is no scientific evidence to prove they did not live together. Give me the mountains of evidence to back up your statement. The problem with people like you is you go around shooting your mouth off, backing up nothing. Just repeating the same drivel that others spew out, thinking that if you say it enough times, it will become the truth. Just saying it to be so, does not make it so!
I happen to believe in the Bible, where in Genesis, God created everything in the first 6 days. I put my faith in God, instead of the lies of men.
Laugh all you want, deny it all you want, but you will find you were wrong about this, in the future. I guarantee that!
By the way, I did not put my money into gold before Y2K.
My trust is in the Lord, not man nor money!
The Bible alludes to a creation (possibly many) that occured before Adam ever set foot on Earth.
Evolutionists are wrong.
Young Earth creationists are too.
Careful 'nightdriver' in what you are saying. I have a website that you might find interesting and educational that will hopefully answer just about every question you have concerning creation:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/qa.asp
BTTT!!!!!
They were babies
Indeed. I won't be bothering the evolution ping list for this ... ah, material.
Read Job chapters 40 and 41 and then say that.
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