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[rivendellrose]

Your Creationist WTF moment of the day. I don't even know how to comment on this one, except to say that these people are even bigger morons than I could ever have guessed. Let me try to get this straight.

They're saying that after God created the earth in six days, dinosaurs were there eating plants (and only plants) in the garden of Eden with everyone else. Because apparently God thought it'd be funny to watch things with razor-sharp ripping-and-tearing teeth try to eat leaves. Then, after that harlot Eve went and thought for herself disobeyed the holy word of God and condemned us all, then they started eating meat. Along with everything else. And, my favorite part of all, "About 4,500 years after Adam and Eve arrived, the theory goes, pairs of baby dinosaurs huddled in Noah's Ark, and a colossal flood drowned the rest and scattered their fossils. The ark-borne animals repopulated the planet — meaning that folk tales about fire-breathing beasts are accounts of humans battling dinosaurs, who still roamed the planet."

The fact that dinosaurs and humans have never shared the planet together at all has nothing to do with this, naturally. That's a fallacy spread by all those evil, godless scientists. And they probably worship the devil, too.

"Go to Disneyland, they teach evolution. It's subtle; signs that say, 'Millions of years ago'..." Umm... huh? I've never been to Disneyland, but I find this kind of insanely unlikely. Anybody know what they're talking about?

The fact that he has a "Creation Evidence Museum" that "sponsors a continuing hunt for living pterodactyls in Papua New Guinea" just makes this all the better. Now, admittedly, I'm kind of intrigued about the pterodactyls, but that's because I loooove cryptozoology. Most of it's total bunk, I think, but it's fun stuff.

And, later in the article, I'd like to say that it's a sad day when I'm agreeing with a spokesman for that damned Intelligent Design think-tank here in my fair city. "There's little question that the Earth is billions of years old." You've got that right, budddy.

"If the Bible's history is accurate, then so is its morality." They sooo don't want to say that. Because that phrase also implies the reverse, which, being the truth, would kind of screw them the fuck over. Completely.

This last bit is really fun. ""If [evolutionists] convince people that dinosaurs are exotic, strange creatures, they've won right there, and the Bible looks like a book of Jewish fairy tales," [my emphasis] said Sean Meek, executive director of the Tennessee group Project Creation."

...

You said it, bud, not me.

Comments

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

Disneyland has a ride that follows the fall of the dinosaurs and the rise of humankind.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Ahh. That makes sense. Which makes for one point out of everything the guy's quoted as saying...

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

It's actually a neat ride. It's got the death of the dinosaurs, and then it follows mankind/the earth from cave dwelling days all the way through history. It focuses on America, if I remember correctly, and the animatronics are actually pretty damn impressive. There's one scene of a lightning storm over red rock mesas.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Huh, that sounds really cool. I guess I'll have to pencil that in as something to do if I ever actually end up down there - unlikely, but at least now I know one thing I'd definitely want to try!

[ophidiae.livejournal.com]

I've been on that ride. It's pretty cool.

Also, for your amusement, I present American Scientist stamps (http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/2005/08/science_stamps.html)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Oh, those are just lovely. Thank you!!!

[ophidiae.livejournal.com]

You are most welcome.

I assume, of course, that you have seen the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (http://www.venganza.org/)? If not, I highly recommend that you convert to Pastafarianism as soon as possible.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Oh gods. I'd heard of that, but I had no idea he had a website! That's wonderful! I especially love the wallpaper, and the responses from the Kansas schoolboard... although those are a bit sad as well as funny. Poor four moderates.

[ophidiae.livejournal.com]

It's a great site, isn't it?

I passed the link around work, and now my boss wants a FSM poster to put up in the office. I may have to oblige her. *g*

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

That's awesome.

I have to ask - what's the story behind your icon?

[ophidiae.livejournal.com]

Oh, lord. It's very silly.

I was working on a Stargate: Atlantis fanfic that involved one of the puddlejumpers suffering a catastrophic systems failure in high orbit. In the course of working out the details of how, exactly, a ship with the aerodynamic profile of a soup can would behave during an uncontrolled reentry, I wound up in the backyard lobbing canned goods through the air.

The education & science director at the museum where I work was thoroughly disappointed that I did not videotape the experiment. *g*

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's just fabulous - the worst I ever do is sit around with a funny look on my face trying to remember smells or sensations, or beg my roommates to hold their arms in certain ways so I can have a model to draw off of. *g*

And I didn't know you work at a museum (or did I? I forget things like that sometimes...)! I volunteered for years at our local science museum, and I've worked for the last almost-month at a children's museum. Not really my speed, this last one, but nonetheless, aspects of it have been a total blast.

[ophidiae.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am a whopping big geek. When I wrote my Magnificent 7 story "Transit", a friend and I actually took a roadtrip up into the Rincon Mountains and crossed Redington Pass just so I'd be able to write about it accurately.

Truthfully? I think that's one of the reasons my M7 stories were so popular. I actually lived in the area I was writing about, and was able to give my stories a lot of local color and real history.

And I didn't know you work at a museum (or did I? I forget things like that sometimes...)!

You may have missed it, as I don't really post much about my job in this journal.

But yeah, I work in the collections department of a natural & cultural museum in South Florida. My actual job description is kind of nebulous, as I do pretty much whatever needs doing at any given time. Last week I was "curatorial assistant"; this week I'm "archaeologist's lackey."

It's pretty cool. I've handled everything from Incan pottery to whale vertebrae to 19th century porcelain to fossil teeth. I'll add you to my RL journal's f-list so you can see the locked pictures of me playing with mammoth bones. :)

[ophidiae.livejournal.com]

That should say "natural and cultural history museum" up there.

Go here (http://pics.livejournal.com/bonniebluebitch/gallery/00001f3z) for on-the-job pictures. :)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Awesome, thank you! I can't wait to see the pics. *g* I've been looking into the museology grad program at my school, and I've got to say, it's one of my most tempting options. I've heard it's hard to get into, but it'd be worth it if I made it in!