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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."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I thought it was more like 10,000 years ago.
In other news, two morons do their part to ruin the world for the rest of us.
"For them, 'The Flintstones' is a documentary."
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I like this guys sense of humor.
Darwinists runing scared Bump!
These people do make evolution sound intelligent.
Had a nice maniraptoran theropod Caesar salad for supper tonight......
That's "chicken" to all you creationists out there.
Tyrannosaurs didn't walk the Earth with Neanderthal and Cro Magnon.....but dinosaurs aren't gone. Go to KFC and get a bucket full of their body parts. Yum!
Moron alert!
How did the dinosaurs fit in the ark?
Maybe they weren't on the ark and that's why they went extinct.
It is actively propogated by those who want to live as they wish, with no thought of the Creator who will ultimately call them to account for every idle word, every deed done in secret. It is believed by those who will not think for themsleves and let the evidence - not the desired outcome - guide them.
The above article says they "marched two by two onto the ark". That is why I asked :)
The word of God, which fools disregard, speaks of behemoth and leviathan. It is probable the catastrophic event that killed them was none other than the deluge. This would have reduced the atmospheric pressure (the water existed in a canopy above the earth prior to that) and thus the oxygen density, making it impossible for such creatures to survive. This would also explain the fossils mixed up and concentrated in certain area, with the "fines" (smaller specimens) sinking further down.
They were hatchlings perhaps?
[Organizers at Creation Research of the North Coast in Humboldt County, Calif., dream of building their own reptile park but lack funding and acreage]
That's not all they lack.
Ol' Bishop Ussher and his "calculation" can be seen in all its nonsensical glory at:
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/ussher.htm
[The Texas museum sponsors a continuing hunt for living pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea. Baugh said five colleagues have spotted the flying dinosaurs, "but all the sightings were made after dark, and we were not able to capture the creatures."]
This is my favorite line.
Joe Barbera wrote Genesis??
Now I've got to go and wonder why mean ol' Jim Rob banned Sabertooth..
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