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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What are you using as the basis for that statement?
The word from Olympus is that Zeus has reconsidered and is now cool with continental drift and evolution.
People think of dinosaurs as huge animals that could peer over the tops of tall trees. But many dinosaurs were small. Some were about the size of young chickens, and some were not much bigger than the dinosaur tooth pictured at right. Obviously Noah wasn't going to stuff a pair of 30-meter high dinosaurs in the Ark. So what did he do?
Small dinosaurs would fit on the Ark easily. And remember that even the largest dinosaurs started their lives as younger and smaller babies. In the late 1970s, skeletons and eggs of some tiny juvenile Mussaurus dinosaurs were found in Patagonia in southern Argentina. Mussaurus means “mouse reptile”, and the name is apt because the best-preserved Mussaurus skeleton is so small it fits comfortably in a human hand.
New Scientist of 6 December, 2000 announced the discovery of fossils of the smallest known adult dinosaur. These “microraptors” were only 39 centimeters (15 inches) long — 24 centimeters (9½ inches) of which were its tail.
We don't know how many species of dinosaur that God sent to Noah to take on the Ark. If the largest types were included, it is possible they were taken when they were still youngish but able to mate. Many animals can mate long before they are fully grown. </sarcasm>
Not a new movie??? No Racquel Welch?
Nice try
I know quite a bit about evolution, especially how it cannot happen across phylum boundries for one....
I posted a nice, polite well-reasoned reply and that's the best I get? I guess I win that one, then, eh?
I thought your position was ...
I know quite a bit about evolution, especially how it cannot happen. across phylum boundries for one....
"No, I did post one thing that made sense,..."
What would that be?
The warning has come too late!
I do not believe in evolution.
Wait...Do people really exist who think the planet (and universe?) is only 6000 years old?
Really???
You know that ... how?
Yes. Some believe creation only happened Last Thursday. And some believe in the Invisible, Pink Unicorn.
"And some believe in the Invisible, Pink Unicorn."
I saw the Invisible Pink Unicorn, it's real, though when I saw it it was an elephant, and it was sorta orange. Though the case of beer I drank right before may have affected my color vision.
What were we talking about? (BURRRRP!!)
Kindly refute the referenced statement if you or any of your merry band of deriders is capable. You resort to epithets quickly.
That post was not to you. You bear false witness by indicating such. OTOH, if the shoe fits ...
Kindly refute the referenced statement if you or any of your merry band of deriders is capable. You resort to epithets quickly.
I will list the post that you are referring to. Note that my post was NOT to you. However, if you do not see the ignorance of the post, as they say, the shoe fits ...
1. Residual heat in the Earth. Lord Kelvin demonstrated that if the Earth was more than fifty million years old, the Earth would have cooled down to ambient temperature. In response, evolutionists proposed that radioactives in the Earth's core have kept it warm for 4.5 billion years. In other words, creationists accurately predict the current volcanic state of Earth, while evolutionists must invoke an unproven process -- a violation of Occam's Razor.
Wben once displays his ignorance, one risks being called ignorant.
Yes. And several are here now. I would think they are paid by George Soros to drive a wedge in the conservative movement but I have actually met a couple of these types and, by God, they are really that way.
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