Adam, Eve and the Dinosaurs...
A story on the LA Times website caught my eye today. Near Palm Springs a massive 45-foot-high concrete Apatosaurus and a T-Rex tower over Interstate 10. It's been a tourist trap for many a year but now Dinny the roadside dinosaur has found religion.
He's been bought by 'Answers in Genesis', a Christian fundamentalist group and is being used to 'prove' that dinosaurs arrived on Earth the same day as Adam and Eve and were later marched two by two onto Noah's Ark. According to their theory the likes of the T-Rex were vegetarians that roamed the Garden of Eden until Eve tempted Adam with the apple and they were transformed into vicious carnivores as a result of Original Sin. And even though a couple of baby dinosaurs were rounded up by Noah, the great flood wiped out the rest of the dinosaurs and scattered their bones all over the planet.
They also claim that the dinosaurs from the ark tried to repopulate the world but couldn't cut the mustard but they did inspire such stories as St George and the Dragon.
"We're putting evolutionists on notice: We're taking the dinosaurs back," said Ken Ham, president of 'Answers in Genesis', "They're used to teach people that there's no God, and they're used to brainwash people. Evolutionists get very upset when we use dinosaurs. That's their star." No, I think they get upset when loons start spouting nonsense my friend.
My favourite quote about the story comes from Kevin Padian, curator at the University of California Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley "Dinosaurs lived in the Garden of Eden, and Noah's Ark? Give me a break. For them, 'The Flintstones' is a documentary."
Not much to say about that one really. I think it speaks for itself. Although I cant remember seeing a pair of velociraptors in my Noah's Ark set at Nursery
He's been bought by 'Answers in Genesis', a Christian fundamentalist group and is being used to 'prove' that dinosaurs arrived on Earth the same day as Adam and Eve and were later marched two by two onto Noah's Ark. According to their theory the likes of the T-Rex were vegetarians that roamed the Garden of Eden until Eve tempted Adam with the apple and they were transformed into vicious carnivores as a result of Original Sin. And even though a couple of baby dinosaurs were rounded up by Noah, the great flood wiped out the rest of the dinosaurs and scattered their bones all over the planet.
They also claim that the dinosaurs from the ark tried to repopulate the world but couldn't cut the mustard but they did inspire such stories as St George and the Dragon.
"We're putting evolutionists on notice: We're taking the dinosaurs back," said Ken Ham, president of 'Answers in Genesis', "They're used to teach people that there's no God, and they're used to brainwash people. Evolutionists get very upset when we use dinosaurs. That's their star." No, I think they get upset when loons start spouting nonsense my friend.
My favourite quote about the story comes from Kevin Padian, curator at the University of California Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley "Dinosaurs lived in the Garden of Eden, and Noah's Ark? Give me a break. For them, 'The Flintstones' is a documentary."
Not much to say about that one really. I think it speaks for itself. Although I cant remember seeing a pair of velociraptors in my Noah's Ark set at Nursery
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