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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bump to you Pastor
Genesis
Chapter 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
The water came from above and below. Its certainly possible.
How does the "first man, Adam" (1Cr 15:45) fit into your theology? Does your Bible say the first "flesh" formed man? Mormons believe in spirit only men, do you agree with their theology in that regard? Moroni (Morman Prophet) became an Angel; do men too? Do Angels (spirit beings) die? Was Adam an Angel before his "incarnation"?
Always use the straightforward passages when considering the cryptic passages. If the straightforward passages contradict our understanding of a cloudy passage, stick with what you can ascertain, rather than squeezing meaning into words that are not very clear.
Mar 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Mar 12:25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
Pre-Fall establishment of marriage:
Gen 2:24-25
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Race
How about pointing to a link for such a massive post? Geez.
Okay. Those meetings might take up half a day. What decisions does one make using their free will for the rest of eternity? I've always had this other question, too: Do people make mistakes in heaven?
They were miniature dinosaurs - like minature Dobermans and Rotweilers.
I go to that place every time I go out to visit my mother-in-law. I'd noticed the pro-creationist changes there this last time, but I kept my mouth shut.
Ignorance is bliss! Uh?
What evidence, other than your interpretation of the Bible, do you have to support the claim that dinosaurs co-existed with humans?
Sorry, it was two pages mixed in with my own words, too
Not a new movie??? No Racquel Welch?
She makes a cameo... The new movie will star J-Lo, as well as Ben Aflack, who will star as a soon to be extict neanderthal, since she won't mate with him anymore. And Devon Aoki (Miho from "Sin City") will be in it too. Why not, it's my fantasy!
Mark
I know it because it cannot happen regardless of how long you try to imagine
Especially without any proof, just ideas and theories.
How do you know that dinosaurs taste like chicken?
Because birds are dinosaurs.....or haven't you looked at a coelurosaur skeleton lately?
Since all your actions are determined before you are born, then you have no free will.
I asked on this board why God would condemn all the innocent babies to Hell and was told that since God knew which ones would accept JC, God would permit them into Heaven even though they hadn't been saved yet.
Then you will accept that God created the animals AFTER he found Adam alone but he goofed after adam tried them all out God realized his mistake.
18
The LORD God said: "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him."
19
So the LORD God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each of them would be its name.
20
The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of the air, and all the wild animals; but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man.
What about TB, AIDS, VD?
When were the souls created????
Souls pre-existed man into eternity.
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