What did God want with dinosaurs?

[passy]

[billyskank]

1. Don't you mean

what does God want with a starship?

[passy]

2. I haven't seen any evidence of God created starships.

[billyskank]

3. Maybe that's why He needed one

:P

[Bassic]

10. Actually I heard he did, and it looked like a DC-8

:P

[passy]

12. With toads singing on the wings,

Cool sig line btw

[Bassic]

41. Thanks

:hi:

[MorningGlow]

23. More puzzling

What did God want with Starship? :shrug:

[hickman]

4. Big, beautiful and still fascinating us.

He knew what he was doing. He was playing in his fields.

[passy]

5. Kinda like Elvis in those glittery jumpsuits?

[hickman]

6. Elvis never made his glittery jumpsuits. He just wore them. n/t

[passy]

7. It's not an excuse.

[hickman]

13. passy, I don't understand. An excuse for what?

Please?

[passy]

14. Was all that creation for our amusement?

In the greater scheme of things, why did God create dinosaurs?
For us to dig up and go whoah that's so cool!
Same as Elvis he never needed the glitter to shine.

[hickman]

15. We dig shit up because thats what we do.

There is no logic about humans. Hopefully we learn. Basically we dig shit up because humans have an insatiable curiosity. Sometimes we pause to appreciate what we dug up. Sometimes we just move on to look for food/safety/stability. Sometimes we just lay down and die. There is no logic to humans.

[passy]

8. Really, what was the point?

[billyskank]

9. The point of what?

This thread?

I agree.

[passy]

11. Maybe

The whole thing is a meaning of life type of question.
If we are made in God's image, whose image where the dinosaurs made in?
God made the earth and the dinosaurs who were around a lot longer than us, are we just an afterthought?

[Arugula Latte]

22. I'm sorry -- but do you really believe that?

The universe is vast, vast, vast.

Billions of stars and planets.

Our little blue globe is on a wing of a not particularly large galaxy.

It started billions of years ago.

One-celled life on Earth didn't begin until billions of years had passed.

Dinosaurs evolved as a response to environmental conditions. So did humans.

If you compress the existence of earth into a theoretical year, modern humans don't appear until the last second of the last day of the year.

So there's supposed to be some omnipotent bearded, robed creature that judges Earth the most important speck in the universe and makes a group of animals in "His" (of course it's a male :eyes: ) image?

* * *

Does not compute...Does not make sense.

For some reason, humans seem incapable of grasping their place in the universe.

[Richard Steele]

16. He likes omelettes- needed some SERIOUSLY big eggs. nm

[Connonym]

17. to fuck with the minds of fundies

and also to make up for the fact that boys "can't" play with Barbies and little plastic dinosaurs are a wonderful alternative. One thing about god, he thinks ahead.

[passy]

20. Do you think God was just a little boy back then?

[Burma Jones]

18. fries..............n/t

[SteppingRazor]

19. If Star Wars has taught us anything...

it's that dinosaurs were meant to serve as mounts in arctic climates.

[Connonym]

24. is that what tauntans were? n/t

[RevCheesehead]

21. Duh!

For the oil, silly!

[Bake]

25. Really cool pets?

Big ones?

Bake

[cwydro]

26. Hell, what's he want

with us?:crazy:

[BarenakedLady]

30. Good question

B-)

[Dukkha]

27. it was an economic plan

so paleontologists, museums, Discovery stores, and Steven Spielberg would all have jobs.

[montanto]

28. what did god want with UFO's ?

[montanto]

29. btw oil isn't made of dinosaurs.

[passy]

31. I thought those were made by the other gods

[montanto]

33. my point.

we are being invaded by people created in the image of other gods. no doubt they have their own dinosaurs. back home, not with them.

[El Fuego]

32. To fuck with the fundies.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

34. To feed them to the humans.

We hunted them to extinction. Didn't you hear?

[Capn Amerika]

35. Oil.

[Deja Q]

36. ROFL - dammit, I wanted to say that!

:spray:

[montanto]

37. the earth is less than 10,000 years old, dinosaurs

co-existed peacefully with man. they were man's early best friends
(no kitties or puppies in dino era.).

[Vidar]

38. Footstools. cf "I am so big" -Monty Python

[montanto]

39. *so absolutely huge*

[deucemagnet]

40. The nazis needed something to ride.

Duh.

[wildhorses]

42. cos he thinks really really

BIG:P

[passy]

43. Thank you everyone for your witty remarks

You can now all return to your regular schedule

[autorank]

45. God's appointment secretary would like to schedule some time w/you;)

[autorank]

44. I think it reflected Gods mood at the time.

The Deity had gone through some difficult times with contradictions in the laws of the universe, particularly the phenomena of black holes, which threatened to suck everything out of current existence into a real where the Deity had no power. It was at this time, dinosaurs came up. They made no sense at all and violated the aesthetics of the emerging biosphere. This temporary lapse in an otherwise perfect record had calamitous consequences promoting the reliance of dinosaur residue by later generations and the further fouling of the earth, the Deities pet project.

Now her/his eminence is working on a "patch" to install that will remedy this much earlier mistake and restore normal physical and consciousness based evolution. It's called neoDarwinism with a move toward gentler transitions and less reliance on the "germ" paradigm.

[Oeditpus Rex]

46. So insane Brits could write sketches about them