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Dinosaur Wank- Big, Old, and No One's Really Positive What Happened
Okay, so someone links to a relatively cute article about the Top Ten Myths About Dinos on a science forum. (Myth 1, Dinosaurs coexisted with humans, Myth 7, Dinosaurs were slow and sluggish animals, etc.) Right off the bat, someone starts in on 'evangelicals' probably not accepting #1, thus sending out some sort of subsonic signal across the internet for everyone with a bible and black helicopter fetish to show up and proclaim they are really the sane ones, really truly.

jteamjohn kicks off the WTFery with, Why don't you try to understand if what "evangelicals" believe may be true since almost anything we know about what happen to the dinosuars is myth or unexplainabe. I believe in my heart that dinos and man where here together. It is because of evidence that I have studied leads me to this belief. I believe man saw dinos becasue one of them wrote about them, Job.

Aaand they're off.

Is the Bible a peer-reviewed document?
Didn't I see cave drawings of 'dinasaurs' and man together?
Um, carbon dating is like guessing and therefore science is faith-based so haha, suck it, scientists*!
Did you know hippos don't have tails that look like trees? That means the Bible mentioned dinosaurs!
Dinosaurs and people lived together in a vegetarian utopia but I await your ignorant responses**!
You know, if I put what you "believe" in "quotes," it makes me look more "right."
Well, I was taught about Pluto, but now there's no planet Pluto, so science must have erased it!

And that's just page one and two. It goes on to name-calling, off-kilter assumptions about people of faith, a random quote by Pliny about Vesuvius from out of nowhere, and...

*screeches to a halt*

Dinosaurs could breathe... flame? Really? On page 3:

The fermenting plants in the stomach of the Parasaurolophus produced a combustible gas that ignited when the dinosaur channeled it through it's headcrest and out it's nostrils, as a defensive weapon. The Parasaurolophus was a "fire breathing dragon."

....Yes. Dinosaurs? Totes breathed flame. Don't believe him? Just look at the dinosaur's head and diet! It's obvious.

It goes on for quite a bit longer, but once I got to fire-breathing parasaurs, I knew I had to share.

*Some statements may be wildly paraphrased to make them funnier.
**That one was, um, not.

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	seiberwing 2008-03-03 06:41 am UTC (link)
	Some of that is far too cute. The sad thing is when you can't tell the spoof from the real thing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	miss_padfoot 2008-03-03 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	I actually think that's the best part. Objective Ministries is kind of subtle if you're not looking in the right places (e.g. the creation scientist named Paley). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seiberwing 2008-03-03 11:20 pm UTC (link)
	Why's that weird? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

miss_padfoot
2008-03-04 05:12 pm UTC (link)

William Paley wrote a pretty well-known book where he claimed that the world as we know it has to be designed. He likened the design of living things to a watch, and said therefore there has to be a watchmaker. That was all before Darwin, but you still see a lot of his arguments paraphrased and repeated in the "intelligent design" literature. He wasn't the first to use the watchmaker analogy, but he was one of the best-known.

The Objective Ministries creationist guy is called Richard Paley, even though William Paley didn't have any kids. It could be a coincidence or they could be related from another common ancestor (ha ha) but it seemed to me that a parody was more likely.

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	seiberwing 2008-03-04 05:31 pm UTC (link)
	That and the use of "Pepper the Moth" indicates some deranged form of intent, yeah. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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