Adam, Eve and T. Rex

LA Times ^ | 8/27/05 | Ashley Powers

[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."

[Clemenza]

Any brain dead sub 50 IQ knuckle dragger who believes that Dinosaurs and men lived at the same time, despite mountains of scientific evidence to the contrary.

Man, these fools are laughable. Probably the same folks who put all their money in gold before Y2K.

[freepatriot32]

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[kpp_kpp]

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.

[rawhide]

Any brain dead sub 50 IQ knuckle dragger who believes that Dinosaurs and men lived at the same time, despite mountains of scientific evidence to the contrary. Man, these fools are laughable. Probably the same folks who put all their money in gold before Y2K.

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!

[nightdriver]

This is the sort of thing that I hate to see. "Creationists" who don't know their Bibles.

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.

[rawhide]

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

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[RaceBannon]

They were babies

[PatrickHenry]

Moron alert!

Indeed. I won't be bothering the evolution ping list for this ... ah, material.

[Manic_Episode]

Read Job chapters 40 and 41 and then say that.

[RaceBannon]

There was no first heaven

Read Job

Where did Leviathan come from?

[Manic_Episode]

Pingalingaling

[ASA Vet]

You've over rated them.
And replying to them is a waste of your time.

[RaceBannon]

How can without form and void equal dinosaurs with form and not void?

[RaceBannon]

No, God created the world and the universe in 6 days

Else, Exodus 20 is a lie

So is Genesis

[shuckmaster]

The are hunting for dinosaurs in Papua New Guinea but can not afford nightvision/IR cameras?

They've got to pay off the $25 mil museum first

[wallcrawlr]

pretty much like any comment to you would be

evo bump

[Just mythoughts]

Bump!

[Just mythoughts]

You DO not start with chaper 40 or 41 to get the WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE and WHY of things.

[Just mythoughts]

I have read Job, especially that part where God told Job to stand up and act like a man, and where was he, Job WHEN God did all these things.

IIPeter 3: Whole Chapter does a WHOLE lot of explaining about Genesis 1:1-2 as well as the Day in the Days of creation.


The Word is suppose to give us instruction.