Fire breathing T-Rex, just ask Dr. Dino

Azazal · Post by **Azazal** » 2006-01-05 08:50am

I did a search and did not see, if already posted please ignore

Bit over on Panda's Thumb, some one posted a child's place mat from a road side dinner, a place mat made using Dr. Dino's info - http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/000947.html

Check the scanned place mat and the dino "facts"

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jmeert/front.jpg
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jmeert/back.jpg

Words just fail me at the stupidity contained within.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2006-01-05 09:01am

Well at least I know how to kill a T-rex, just in case I'd ever meet one in a vacation in Afrika

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2006-01-05 09:15am

How silly of those people in Jurassic Park and its sequels. All they had to do was walk up to the 20 metre tall ferocious killing machine, and pull an arm off. Then laugh heartily as the thing bleeds to death. I wonder if that'd be before or after it's bitten you in two, stomped your corpse or perhaps lit it on fire with deadly fire breath. And I thought the punching a shark on the snout thing was stupid.

Magnetic · Post by **Magnetic** » 2006-01-05 09:25am

Okay,. . . . . . did someone mock this up? Surely someone doesn't actually believe this! Breathing fire????

This makes me angry because it just gives you all another reason to "laugh at the stupidity of the creationists". I can only say that, although "Dr." Dino is a Christian, . . . . . I'm quite sure that he would be in the MINORITY on his views. They are, of course, ridiculous!

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2006-01-05 09:37am

I don't think you should look at that Gallup poll on Creationism then. It'd shock you how many Americans apparently believe in the literal YEC.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2006-01-05 10:02am

Admiral Valdemar wrote:I don't think you should look at that Gallup poll on Creationism then. It'd shock you how many Americans apparently believe in the literal YEC.

I wish I could remember where, but I read somewhere recently that the scientific literacy rate in that poll was 20%...80% of those polled were science illiterates.

Considering that a guesstimated 70% or so were also HS graduates, and that things in this country's education system are not improving, my blood runs cold when I think about the future.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2006-01-05 12:13pm

What is this restaurant, so that I may never give them even the time of day?!

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2006-01-05 12:37pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:What is this restaurant, so that I may never give them even the time of day?!

I have no doubt that it's some greasy spoon shithole in the vicinity of Hovind's Creationist Dino-Land Amusement Park or whatever the fuck it is he calls it.

Azazal · Post by **Azazal** » 2006-01-05 01:29pm

I wonder if Dr. Dino suffered brain trauma as a child while watchinf the Flintstones and Godzilla. The effect of the trauma left him with the impression that these were documataries and not entertainment.

Frank Hipper - It only says Dunlap, Tennessee. Maybe avoid the area in general?

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2006-01-05 01:42pm

Azazal wrote: Frank Hipper - It only says Dunlap, Tennessee. Maybe avoid the area in general?

Guess I was wrong, Hovind's Dinosaur Adventure Land is in Florida...absolutely zero surprise that this menu comes from Tennessee, however.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2006-01-05 02:03pm

I spoke with this clown personally after one of his "debates" at CSU Chico. He lied to me at least three or four times during our "conversation," and made a few things up on the spot. He once even contradicted his own lie within 5 minutes.

I believe he is a showman and a liar. There is nothing honest about Hovind, and most other creationist groups like "Answers in Genesis," have distanced themselves from him.

In short, Kent Hovind himself is about as real as his doctorate. He's the Benny Hinn of creationists.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2006-01-05 02:50pm

I'd say he's more like Benny Hill myself.

Azazal · Post by **Azazal** » 2006-01-05 03:21pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:I'd say he's more like Benny Hill myself.

nah, Benny Hill had some pretty funny stuff, Dr. Dino is just sad sad sad

OmegaGuy · Post by **OmegaGuy** » 2006-01-05 03:29pm

That is just stupid beyond words.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2006-01-05 04:22pm

That has GOT to be a joke.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2006-01-05 04:29pm

LadyTevar wrote:That has GOT to be a joke.

It is. But it's being proposed as a serious theory to rival what we currently know of paleobiology, so that's why we worry.

Lost Soal · Post by **Lost Soal** » 2006-01-05 04:33pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:I'd say he's more like Benny Hill myself.

How dare you sully the name of Benny Hill. The man was a genius. Appologise this instant.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2006-01-05 04:34pm

You've got to admit, this guy's life would be a sketch for that show if it weren't already real.

Lost Soal · Post by **Lost Soal** » 2006-01-05 04:37pm

Are you sure its not actually just an elaborate sketch. I don't want to think about the possibility that billions of years of evolution can result in someone so stupid.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2006-01-05 04:49pm

Fire breath, brittle arms, hemophilia, walnut-sized brain...

It should be a capital crime to malign one of the greatest predators that ever lived like that- although fire breath would be cool. I'm curious to know where that one even came from, or if they just pulled it out of their ass- oops, I mean Scripture.

If non-avian dinosaurs are still around, I only hope that Kent Hovind and an expedition of missionaries are the first to encounter them. Only problem is, the reality is so far-removed from their Victorian Era abortion of a concept that they'll just think they're being disemboweled by demons.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2006-01-05 05:20pm

LadyTevar wrote:That has GOT to be a joke.

It's not a joke. It's their attempt to explain the various fire breathing monsters mentioned in the Bible.

Temjin · Post by **Temjin** » 2006-01-05 05:46pm

Darth Raptor wrote:It should be a capital crime to malign one of the greatest predators that ever lived like that- although fire breath would be cool. I'm curious to know where that one even came from, or if they just pulled it out of their ass- oops, I mean Scripture.

Now, follow the bouncing ball as we go down the twisted road of Dr. Dino logic:

Medieval dragons were actually the dinosaurs. Some medieval dragons were supposed to be able to breath fire. Ergo, some dinosaurs breath fire!

Weep for humanity...

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-01-05 06:32pm

FUCKING HELL.

Just reading that made me lose at least half of my IQ. Thankfully, the atrocious layout, spelling and general look of the fucking thing makes me believe that this was crafted by dumb-arse rednecks without a clue to start with.

defanatic · Post by **defanatic** » 2006-01-05 07:14pm

Darth Raptor wrote:It should be a capital crime to malign one of the greatest predators that ever lived like that- although fire breath would be cool. I'm curious to know where that one even came from, or if they just pulled it out of their ass- oops, I mean Scripture.

This sort of thing really gets on my nerves. I would like to find Kent Hovind and kick his scripture.

Well, consider the intelligence of your average fundamentalist. Then, by definition, fully half must be more stupid than that.

Of course, that's a copied and pasted joke, and uses median rather than mean.

Old Plympto · Post by **Old Plympto** » 2006-01-05 08:01pm

The word dinosaur means terrible triceratops.

Before the 1800s, dinosaurs were actually called ten.

Lizard had three horns.

The t-rex weighed as much as dragon thousand pounds.

There ya go. That makes as much sense as the stuff on the mat.