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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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	rekall 2008-03-03 09:45 am UTC (link)
	Fire breathing dinosaur? Oh dear, don't tell me someone actually believed that Dragon mocumentary from a few years ago and think that dragons really existed along side dinosaurs. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	tree 2008-03-03 02:16 pm UTC (link)
	I had a friend in Uni who honestly believed dolphins had come from Atlantis. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	risha 2008-03-03 04:03 pm UTC (link)
	I don't even want to know their reasoning for that. ... OK, I do. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	evilsqueakers 2008-03-04 01:49 am UTC (link)
	No. No. They believe that show Prehistoric Park, or whatever it's called. Clearly. Everyone has a time portal in their backyard. Duh. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	spawn_of_kong 2008-03-04 04:01 am UTC (link)
	You mean Primeval? (Although that was made by the same guys who made Prehistoric Park, which was a mini-series.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	evilsqueakers 2008-03-04 04:07 am UTC (link)
	This is what I meant. And I'm ashamed it was my first instinct. I blame Animal Planet. I mean, if Wooly Mammoths can live in the same place as a T-Rex, anything is possible. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	honorh 2008-03-04 06:47 am UTC (link)
	It had Patrick Stewart narrating. Patrick Stewart adds an air of authoritativeness to anything. I, for one, will believe almost anything that man says. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	magic_lilybean 2008-03-05 02:22 am UTC (link)
	I got a boxed set of Discovery Channel DVDs for Christmas one year and that was among them. I watched that one first because, WTF? It annoyed the piss out of me, especially with my stepdaughter insisting almost all the way through that it must be real. We didn't even bother watching any of the other DVDs. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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