LAT: Giant roadside dinosaurs tout creationism

[DBoon]

(no that's not the real headline. This isn't LBN, either).

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dinosaurs27aug27,0,6894033.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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.

What has this country come to?

Removing evolution from modern biology is like removing calculus from modern physics. No wonder the US is losing whatever technological lead it had.

[w13rd0]

1. Dinosaurs on the ark?

Gee, their bullshit isn't even plausible. Why not say that Noah left them off the ark because they were too big, and that's why there aren't any now? Arrived on earth same day as Adam and Even in their big plastic spaceship? What friggin morans...

[BrotherBuzz]

3. They have all the bases covered...

About 4,500 years after Adam and Eve arrived, the theory goes, pairs of baby dinosaurs huddled in Noah's Ark. Wow , cool!

I would never make this place a destination stop, but if I happen to pass it in my travels I think I would stop. I don't think I would pay admission, but rather, I would tour the parking lot and check out the bumperstickers. I believe I could find some doozies - possibly a Pulitzer prize in the making.

[Qanisqineq]

2. now I'm confused

I thought on the last day God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Eve and the dinosaurs. I would imagine the people that wrote the Bible couldn't make such a "huge" oversight.

Edited to add this funny quote from the article:
"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."

:rofl:

[xray s]

4. you'll never go broke in th US selling stupid ideas to stupid people

I'm thinking of booking tours to the edge of the earth....

[longship]

5. Their bullshit is as deep as apatosaur shit in the ark.

n/t