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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Dino The Creationists Best Friend


According to the television news tonight, Creationists are creating Theme Parks in America to push their wacky views. As you can imagine, there are some strong polarised opinions. I just laugh, but what is an atheist cynic to do with such preposterous material. I was most amazed at the amount of money being poured into these projects. Don't they have better things to do with their money?

As far as I can tell the only other place where humans and dinosaurs coexisted was in The Flintstones.

That said as a gesture to balanced coverage, I did a little research and found this old article from the Los Angeles Times, which is a good summary.

A 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."

Tyrannosaurus rex and his gigantic brethren find themselves on both sides of the nation's renewed debate over the Earth's origins and the continuing fight over whether Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" or Genesis best explains the development of life.

Science holds that dinosaurs were the Earth's royalty for about 160 million years. Their reign ended abruptly, possibly after a meteorite smacked into the planet, but they're considered the forebears of birds.


It makes these guys seem pretty run of the mill.
Editors Note: I have made my mind up about this one.

9 comments:

James Higham said...

...push their wacky views...

These 'wacky views' were the accepted wisdom for centuries until the humanists recently:

1 took over the schools, destroyed education and created non-questioning zombies of the kids
2 pushed their unsubstantiated notions of evolution which are constantly being revised by the so-called 'scientists' to compensate for the inherent flaws in their theories.

Colin Campbell said...

I wondered if you might have something to say about this James, but I am fairly convinced of the Theory of Evolution and not too persuaded by the alternative, even if there are some uncertainties.

I do agree that there has been a substantial dumbing down of the curriculum and I think that this is a much bigger argument than just where we came from and whether we cohabited the earth with dinosaurs.

Welshcakes Limoncello said...

I'm with you on this, CC! I didn't think the US fundamentalists could get any crazier! James, are you really questioning evolution??

Liz Hinds said...

Evolution is described in Genesis as a logical progression of creation. That's fine by me.

As far as I can see the only time - apart from the flintstones - when man and dinosaurs walked together was in Jurassic Park.

_ said...

James, are you really questioning evolution??

Welshcakes, are you suggesting evolution is above question? Sounds a lot like "We believe in evolution... take it by faith sister!" Scientific enquiry at its best.

Actually, many scientists question evolution.

Scott from Oregon said...

Of course Scientist question "Evolution". That is the scientific method.

science attempts to explain the mysteries of our earthly abode and make gains on this quest every year.

Religion, on the other hand, offer up a fairy tale and ask that you have "faith" that the fairy tale is true.

Silly rabbits, tricks are for kids...

Crushed said...

So, have Colin.

Have you seen this Dr Carl Baugh, of the Creationist Science Museum in Glen Rose. Worth a look at his site.

It's pretty nuts.

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