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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It was not me but the construct of your post that made the implicaton.
And I did.
I am not nearly educated enough to dispute anything anybody ever said regarding Lord Kelvin. Since you highlighted that particular statement and quickly claimed the entire post, as well as it's author, totally ignorant, I figured you must have the answer at your fingertips.
I didn't have the time to go into each and every one of his ignorant posts. I saw his ignorant posts and highlighted one as an example.
(BTW, why did you attribute the killing of innocent babies to God? Is that supposed to be the hallmark of the faithful? More cleverness on your part?)
Because God created man and knew all the future actions of man, he is responsible for the his creation. Sort of like how he provided in the reproduction process the natural abortion of billions of embryos.
Do you expect to have free will in heaven?
I am no scientist. I am a Christian. I acknowledge that evolutionary theory may have some merit. I have my questions about evolution, but given my lack of scientific background, I am probably not competent to even formulate those questions properly for those who would give them serious consideration.
I also recognize that what I believe, I believe by faith, not fact. That's what makes it faith. My religious belief is not science, not likely provable by science, but perhaps disprovable by science (but my faith says that it won't be disproven-- that's why I believe what I believe).
I believe in the Bible as the inspired word of God, but I cannot say that every word was intended to be interpreted literally. I believe there is room for symbolism in much of scripture.
I believe God is all powerful, and created the universe for His own reasons, most of which are beyond my (and because I am a fairly intelligent guy, relative to others) and most others' understanding. I believe God is all knowing and all good and loving, although I confess I cannot understand everything about Him.
If God is all powerful, and if among God's purposes was for us to discover and love Him by faith, rather than by His demand or by making Himself obvious to us, then He may have made the world just as it is-- ambiguous and problematic as to its origins, purposes and destiny.
God may have (but need not have, and in fact may not have) created the world in 6 days, or less if He were so inclined. I believe that however God created the world, the day after He finished, it looked older than it was-- perhaps millions or billions of years older, by human reckoning. Alternatively, He may have started the universe by a Big Bang and "cultivated" it to its current state, but my faith suggests not.
I acknowledge the shortcomings that many may see if my belief system, but I suggest that every belief system, even those purportedly based in science, contain shortcomings large enough to allow a total destruction of their validity.
Where does this statement of belief get me (us)? Perhaps nowhere, but hopefully a little further toward a mutual tolerance of others' beliefs (and by tolerance I mean true tolerance, not like that of the left, but an attitude that allows others to have their beliefs without ridicule, while not requiring anyone to adhere one's own beliefs).
Have a great week...
kentucky fried dino
or Ford
Genesis 6:19-20 "And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive."
Those were his instruction.
There's plenty of large animals still around. Elephants, whales, hippos etc. Why would dinosaurs have died out while these other megafauna survived?
You mean other than the vast mountains of fossil, geological and dating evidence that is accepted by the vast, vast majority of people educated in the relevant scientific fields?
Just saying it to be so, does not make it so!
And some moron with a museum fleecing ignorant rednecks doesn't change the fact that humans and dinosaurs have never interacted.
Err... The dragon myths of various cultures are quite different. The way dragons are supposed to look varies dramatically from culture to culture.
Humans have never seen actual dinosaurs, but fossils have always been around. It's not surprising that the discovery of a T. Rex fossil would lead to various myths.
But do you expect to have free will in heaven?
That sounds so amazingly like the way Marxists talk.
Dinosaurs and people did live together. I saw it in When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth. But what gives with the evolution of women? In the movie, they were all gorgeous!
No, the water existed in "the fountains of the great deep" and came up fast and hot through fissures that encircle the globe. Read the word before posting!
I don't know about you, but after I meet Jesus, I'm going to meet Elvis . . .
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