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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You are a member of the ETC religion??
"Only after Adam had tried out all the animals..."
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Uh...that doesn't sound quite right.
Please give me verse that says that.
What IS the average size of a dino?
Isn't it about the size of a sheep?
18 Then the LORD God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.’ 19 So out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
20 The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper as his partner.
Evolutionists love to not just take the Bible out of context, but invent things out of whole cloth.
It must have been to tempting a lie to try and make Adam look like a pervert.
This is Exhibit A as to why I never believe an evolutionist.
You have a twisted imagination. The quote was in context. What you make out of it depends on the way your own mind interprets things.
Is that how you interpret the bible?
Is that how you interpret the bible?
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Nope.
Just pointing out how it can be taken out of context.
I was using YOUR quote.
The way it is written in the full passage I quoted.
The point being made is that the story has the structure of a folk tale. The God of the story is more like a fairy godmother than an onmiscient God.
"Bible" should always be capitalized whether you believe in it or not, out of respect for others. It is the Holy Book of the largest Religion on this planet. Readers of this book have created the greatest country in the history of the universe, the United States of America.
I had been through this discussion on a previous thread, so I was focused on the fact that God was engaged in a trial and error process.
I can see what you are driving at, but I was more interested in the parallel to evolution. Prior to Darwin, the fossil record was explained as evidence of a series of special creations, each more advanced than the previous. I think that idea might spring from this story of trying out.
I had been through this discussion on a previous thread, so I was focused on the fact that God was engaged in a trial and error process.
I can see what you are driving at, but I was more interested in the parallel to evolution. Prior to Darwin, the fossil record was explained as evidence of a series of special creations, each more advanced than the previous. I think that idea might spring from this story of trying out.
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Thank you.
I think you will have to search elsewhere than the three verses you cited.
First, Adam was advanced enough to name the animals.
Second, there was birds, animals, and even cattle.
Seems pretty contemporary.
I doubt this "folk tale" fits the bill for you.
I don't think you fully understand the theological problems that you must overcome to believe what you wrote.
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