Creationists to 'take back' the Dinosaurs.

[Max]

Adam, Eve and T. Rex
Giant roadside dinosaur attractions are used by a new breed of creationists as pulpits to spread their version of Earth's origins.

By Ashley Powers, Times Staff Writer


CABAZON, Calif. — 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."

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.

Unearthing dinosaur bones that are millions of years old "doesn't prove evolution, but it shows the Genesis account doesn't work," said Nick Matzke, a spokesman for the National Center for Science Education.

Drivers who pull off Interstate 10 in Pensacola, Fla., are told a far different story at Dinosaur Adventure Land. Its slogan: "Where Dinosaurs and the Bible meet!"

The nearly 7-acre museum, low-tech theme park and science center embodies its founder's belief that God created the world in six days. The dinosaurs, even super carnivores such as T. rex, dined as vegetarians in the Garden of Eden until Adam and Eve sinned — and only then did they feast on other creatures, according to the Christian-based young-Earth theory.

About 4,500 years after Adam and Eve arrived, the theory goes, pairs of baby dinosaurs huddled in Noah's Ark, and a colossal flood drowned the rest and scattered their fossils. The ark-borne animals repopulated the planet — meaning that folk tales about fire-breathing beasts are accounts of humans battling dinosaurs, who still roamed the planet.

Kids romping through the $1.5-million Florida theme park can bounce on a "Long Neck Liftasaurus" swing seat; launch water balloons at a T. rex and a stegosaurus, and smooth their own sandbox-size Grand Canyons, whose formation is credited to the flood. A "fossilized" pickle purports to show that dinosaur bones could have hardened quickly. Got an upcoming birthday? Dinosaur Adventure Land does pizza parties.

"Go to Disneyland, they teach evolution. It's subtle; signs that say, 'Millions of years ago' " said evangelist Kent Hovind, the park's founder. "This is a golden opportunity to get our point across."

Carl Baugh opened his Creation Evidence Museum in the 1980s near Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Texas, where some people said fossilized dinosaur tracks and human footprints crisscrossed contemporaneously. 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."

Organizers at Creation Research of the North Coast in Humboldt County, Calif., dream of building their own reptile park but lack funding and acreage. So do leaders at Project Creation in Mount Juliet, Tenn., who would need to raise about $1 million to assemble 30 to 50 pterodactyl and brachiosaur replicas to mingle with live chickens and goats.

At the Institute for Creation Research museum in Santee, a San Diego suburb, officials plan to enlarge its paleontological offerings.

Click me!

[weemadando]

There is just no stopping the stupidity is there?

[Embracer Of Darkness]

Holy fuck on a stick... Proof enough that these fucking morons have the mental capacity of a very small child, because this is the kind of fairytale I might tell one as I tuck them into bed.

[Embracer Of Darkness]

Ghetto edit, that was in response to the following paragraph: -

About 4,500 years after Adam and Eve arrived, the theory goes, pairs of baby dinosaurs huddled in Noah's Ark, and a colossal flood drowned the rest and scattered their fossils. The ark-borne animals repopulated the planet — meaning that folk tales about fire-breathing beasts are accounts of humans battling dinosaurs, who still roamed the planet.

[Haruko]

They really need to stop this. It's getting sillier and sillier.

[wilfulton]

There is just no stopping the stupidity is there?

Look on the bright sight, when they get too stupid to figure out how to breed, we'll be rid of them too

[Zero]

How do these people even BREATH!? This is just getting to be too silly... how is fundamentalism actually getting STRONGER with people this fucking stupid in charge?

"T-rex, despite his sharp teath and apparent abilities as a carnivore, or possibly a scavenger, was probably eating plants before TEH EVIL Adam and Eve learned of good and evil."

How can they seriously even claim to have ANYTHING to do with reality when they say shit like this?

[Nephtys]

No WONDER. This is Kent Hovind's work, 'Dr. Dino' himself. The man who is well qualified in murderology AND murderonomy from a prestigious collage with literally less acreage than my parent's summer house.

I still like the part about the Flintstones being a documentary. Heehee.

[Zor]

Yeah, yeah, another Fundieworld.

Here's to this thing turning out to be a finatual flop and going bankrupt, sending the money they spent on it back into the stream of Circulation and getting it out of existance before spreading to much stupidity.

Zor

[SecondToDie]

So does this mean that the Flintsones is a historical documentary?

[SpacedTeddyBear]

Is there a point where one just reads so much of this crap, that you stop wanting to swing a mallet into their heads, to where you just chuckle to yourself and go " Silly fundies are at it again"?

[darthdavid]

Is there a point where one just reads so much of this crap, that you stop wanting to swing a mallet into their heads, to where you just chuckle to yourself and go " Silly fundies are at it again"?

If there is I'm yet to find it.

[wolveraptor]

Where the fuck are these people getting enough money to build 1.5 million dollar theme parks? There are better ways to spend your cash dumbasses.

[FTeik]

T-Rex: "Don't run, i'm a vegetarian."

[mr friendly guy]

There is just no stopping the stupidity is there?

Natural selection. We just have to wait for it to take effect.

[weemadando]

There is just no stopping the stupidity is there?

Natural selection. We just have to wait for it to take effect. :lol:

Unfortunately abstinence only education leads to higher pregnancy rates. Not to mention the utter disbelief in all things contraceptive even in marriage. The fundamentalist lemming swarm is going to happen.

[Gil Hamilton]

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.

This is kind of misleading isn't it? No one in the scientific community actually uses "The Origin of Species" as more than literature anymore, I thought, because evolutionary theory had long since, well, evolved via experimentation and data collection to a point that Darwin's conception of what evolution is is now inaccurate. So it seems odd to me that they'd face of Darwin himself against the Book of Genesis, since the former doesn't represent the theory. Like a giant Wizard of Oz style strawman to me.

[Guardsman Bass]

I thought the "dinosaurs surviving the flood, and becoming the myths of legend" the most amusing part. Obviously the question never occurred to them that if these are large, carnivorous dinosaurs (since they are claiming that they make the myths of dragons), why are they all in hiding? You'd think the bloody things would be running all over Africa, since it would harder than your life is worth to hunt one without anything less than a harpoon or gun.

[FedRebel]

Adam, Eve and T. Rex
Giant roadside dinosaur attractions are used by a new breed of creationists as pulpits to spread their version of Earth's origins.

Creationist1: The evolutionists are gaining ground, how can we stop them from spreading this evil?

Creationist2: people seem to think they have physical evidence that supports them. We need to make it look like this evidence actually supports us.

Crwationist1: These are tricks by Satan that are being used against the word of the Lord, how can we possibly use them to our advantage?

Creationist3: I know! lets make a museum that says dinosuars were created along-side man!

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.

Creationist: Come one come all! see the greatest wonder of the world, Dinosuars! Contrary to what teh evil scientists tell you these magnificint beasts did not die out millions of years ago, yes all that "carbon dating" crap is just Bullsh...*gets on knees* (oh Lord forgive me for I have sinned)

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.

Creationist: And we base this on absolutely NOTHING!!!

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.

Why the deception?

If the Bible is TEH WORD! Then they don't need to do this, the disbelievers will be cast into the firey pits of Hell after that nice 1,000 year holy war our kind forgiving God has instored for us.

"We're putting evolutionists on notice: We're taking the dinosaurs back,"

Excuse me, you never had them to begin with

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.

Creationist: They are wrong! The Bible says...

Impartial observer: Sorry to but in, but "they" have physical evidence to support their view, you only seem to have a few passages in a book which has mysterious origins.

Creationist: DISBELIVER! All the answers are in the Bible! The Bible is the work of God not man, so everything in the good book is infallible fact!

Imparial observer: So where does the Bible talk about dinosaurs?

Creationist: They were created at the same time as Adam & Eve

Impartial observer: I thought that Adam was created first, them the animals to keep him company only after that failed Eve was created.

Creationist: well... *grabs Bible and flips through the pages* ...you're right...so the dinosaurs were created at the sametime as all the other animals

Impartial observer: but you said a minute ago...

Creationist: DISBELIEVER!!! The power of Christ compels you! the power of Christ compels you!

"They're used to teach people that there's no God, and they're used to brainwash people," he said.

Scientist: Gasp! They've learned of our evil master plan! ...RUN![/sarcasam]

Let me get this straight, the people who interpret physical evidence that shouldn't exist, show this evidence and their interpretations as well as other evidence that backs up the interpretations, must be using brainwashing and deception?

While those who believe in one book which must have all the answers (despite the lack of any evidence to back it up.) Must be the 'Bastions of Truth' by desperately trying to fit dinosaurs into something that doesn't support there existance?

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.

Dilema, dilema

One book is 5,000 years old and written by a mystery man

The other is over a hundred years old and is backed up by countless evidence and observations over the years since its publication.

Unearthing dinosaur bones that are millions of years old "doesn't prove evolution, but it shows the Genesis account doesn't work," said Nick Matzke, a spokesman for the National Center for Science Education.

Correct, the fossils are only a small piece to a larger puzzle, but they are like anti-matter to Genesis

Drivers who pull off Interstate 10 in Pensacola, Fla., are told a far different story at Dinosaur Adventure Land. Its slogan: "Where Dinosaurs and the Bible meet!"

...For the first time ever!

Dinosaur: So....how are things with you?

*akward pause*

Bible: fine...fine, ...how about those Saints

*akward pause*

Dinosaur: I'm more of a Ravens fan myself

*akward pause*

Bible: not football...I mean actual "saints"

The dinosaurs, even super carnivores such as T. rex, dined as vegetarians in the Garden of Eden until Adam and Eve sinned — and only then did they feast on other creatures, according to the Christian-based young-Earth theory.

Anyone else starting to think "you know who" tryed to slaughter the wrong religon?

Creationist: All dinosaurs dined on vegetables before Adam and Eve sinned, as for those sharp teeth...just ignore them.

About 4,500 years after Adam and Eve arrived, the theory goes, pairs of baby dinosaurs huddled in Noah's Ark, and a colossal flood drowned the rest and scattered their fossils. The ark-borne animals repopulated the planet — meaning that folk tales about fire-breathing beasts are accounts of humans battling dinosaurs, who still roamed the planet.

Creationist!: So we all agree that dinosaurs were created along-side man, so how do we go about supporting this?

Creationist2: I know! Lets use fairy tales

Creationist1:

Creationist2: You know the stories about dragons and people fighting dinosaurs, let's say that they're real

Creationist1: Okay!

and smooth their own sandbox-size Grand Canyons, whose formation is credited to the flood.

I'd just like to say...

What the Fuck!

These people still believe that "the flood" was global?

Someone call Vocational Rehabilitation, some untrainables slipped under the radar!

"Go to Disneyland, they teach evolution. It's subtle; signs that say, 'Millions of years ago' " said evangelist Kent Hovind, the park's founder. "This is a golden opportunity to get our point across."

Creationist: DISNEY IS TEH EVIL!!!

[Magnetic]

Okay, . . . . I'm officially embarrassed to be in the christian religion.

[Captain Cyran]

I... but... how... and the... but... it doesn't... sense... I don't...

There are no words... no words at all. I can only hope that 30 years from now, these psycho's are universally laughed at and this will all just be a bad memory.

[Captain Cyran]

In addition. Their dinosaurs aren't even right! Tail-dragging T-Rex?! Gah!

Not to mention this 'gem'

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."

[Kuja]

I... but... how... and the... but... it doesn't... sense... I don't...

There are no words... no words at all. I can only hope that 30 years from now, these psycho's are universally laughed at and this will all just be a bad memory.

Keep those happy thoughts.

[General Zod]

In addition. Their dinosaurs aren't even right! Tail-dragging T-Rex?! Gah!

Not to mention this 'gem'

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."

How many takers that they simply saw bats at a far enough distance and couldn't tell the difference between it and a pterodactyl?