Dinosaurs sailed on Noah's Ark

[Fronzel]

Dinosaurs are about as much a lizard as you are.........

That might not work if he is a reptilian.

 

[Paulhoff]

I thought that -saurus meant 'lizard,' but I'm not a dinosaurologist. They're still reptiles, right? Either way, I wouldn't call them (biblically) 'clean.'

It is important to remember when they (the dinosaurs) where named, not much at all was known about them, "Terrible Big Birds" would have been a better name.

Paul

 

[Foster Zygote]

Did you ask him what they ate? If you ask people and they respond carrion and dead vegetable matter that was strewn around everywhere, press them further and tell them you thought everything was buried since Creationists claim that fossils are the remains of the flood. Further ask them if they think corpses would have survived a year long flood and even exist to be carrion afterwards.

Methinks I sense a bit of the sarcasm in AAM's post.

 

[Zep]

REAL??????????

Paul



Australia is looking better all the time.

We gave you Ken Ham! What more do you want?!

 

[UnrepentantSinner]

I thought that -saurus meant 'lizard,' but I'm not a dinosaurologist. They're still reptiles, right? Either way, I wouldn't call them (biblically) 'clean.'

Taxonomically, Reptiles are the common ancestry stock for lizards (a subset of reptiles), mammals, dinosaurs and birds (a subset of dinosaurs).

It is important to remember when they (the dinosaurs) where named, not much at all was known about them, "Terrible Big Birds" would have been a better name.

No really as birds only developed from Theropod dinosaurs and not all of them were big. Terrible Reptile might have been a better appellation, but dinosaur is historical so we're stuck with it (like Hyracotherium and Basillisaurus, the first isn't a hyrax, the second isn't a marine reptile).

Methinks I sense a bit of the sarcasm in AAM's post.

If so, I invoke Poe's Law.

 

[Deetee]

Dinosaurs are lizards, which, as I understand it, are not clean.

There seems to have been a fair bit of confusion about what was clean or not, though.......

 

[SteveGrenard]

Steve Carrell, star of EVAN ALMIGHTY, in which he plays a latter day Noah,
has been doing the talk shows explaining the use of green screening the animals being taken aboard the ark. He told audiences that the Humane Society would not allow them to put different animals together when there was a chance that one would eat the other.

What I kept wondering is where was the Humane Society when the original Noah was loading his ark.

 

[hgc]

It's Humane Society.

I saw that movie last night. No dinos on the ark. But I did find out that "ark" is an acronym for acts of random kindness. That is just one of the staggering hunks of cheese served up in this very drippy affair.

The bad guy gets covered in bird crap. Ha ha. Poopy joke. Also, Dad doesn't spend enough time with the kids, and disappoints them yet again early on by cancelling their hike in the hills. You can imagine how that's going to end up. Yep, kids grow up to be axe murderers.

 

[RecoveringYuppy]

Anybody come across creationists pointing to this movie as proof that the ark could have worked?

ETA: http://creationwiki.org/Creationism_in_popular_culture apparently the first round of opinion is that the movie is anti-creationists (I haven't seen it yet BTW)

 

[Eos of the Eons]

That new Ark movie was panned by the critics, and it appeared in my local paper. It was called so horrible that the author of the review wanted to throw his beverage at the screen

Does everyone die who doesn't go on the ark? Including the animals that didn't get to go on board in twos?

What was the reason for building the ark in modern times?

I don't plan on seeing the movie, ever, so would rather hear about it through this medium.

 

[hgc]

That new Ark movie was panned by the critics, and it appeared in my local paper. It was called so horrible that the author of the review wanted to throw his beverage at the screen

Does everyone die who doesn't go on the ark? Including the animals that didn't get to go on board in twos?

What was the reason for building the ark in modern times?

I don't plan on seeing the movie, ever, so would rather hear about it through this medium.

You really want to know? Do you think you can handle the truth?

First of all, it's a very localized flood. It's a busted dam flooding the valley where the town of Prestige Heights in suburban DC. Yes, it's that bad.

No one is shown to have died. This movie is very, very lite stuff. You can be sure that no animals got the Abu Graib treatment during the making of this drivel. All the people who were present when the dam broke run onto the ark at the last minute.

What else do you absolutely not want to know?

Here's one: The movie starts with a local newscast in Buffalo. Evan Baxter, anchorman, has just been elected to Congress, and this is his last broadcast. Now, when a newscaster runs for Congress, I'm pretty sure he quits his job as he starts his official campaign at the latest, NOT AFTER HE'S ELECTED! That's the level of reality we're dealing with here (setting aside for the moment all the God, ark, animals and flood stuff).

Congressman Baxter has a trio of spunky comic relief staff, including the no-nonsense stylings of Wanda Sykes, reminiscent of so many millions of similar characters portrayed throughout human experience, starting with paleolithic cave-coms.

This movie also has a very special straightforward admission by a Gilmore Girl that she prayed for their family to be closer. That's so sweet, I'm having a sugar shock seizure.

 

[Eos of the Eons]

All that beard stuff and boat building nonsense for that? What, just the local zoo animals came on board? The guy could have just gone and shown that the dam was compromised, heck god could have sent him a warning to warn others. All that crap when somebody at the dam should have been more on the ball? Isn't the dam checked for damage or signs of weakness? WTF? No wonder even religious people are complaining about it.

Oy.

 

[SteveGrenard]

All that beard stuff and boat building nonsense for that? What, just the local zoo animals came on board? The guy could have just gone and shown that the dam was compromised, heck god could have sent him a warning to warn others. All that crap when somebody at the dam should have been more on the ball? Isn't the dam checked for damage or signs of weakness? WTF? No wonder even religious people are complaining about it.

Oy.

God shudda just fixed the g-d dam.

 

[hgc]

All that beard stuff and boat building nonsense for that? What, just the local zoo animals came on board? The guy could have just gone and shown that the dam was compromised, heck god could have sent him a warning to warn others. All that crap when somebody at the dam should have been more on the ball? Isn't the dam checked for damage or signs of weakness? WTF? No wonder even religious people are complaining about it.

Oy.

Yeah. All for that. Oh, and for the sake of a few tired, unfunny jokes and very, very tired tropes of all kinds. I suppose the animals could have come from local zoos. There were elephants, giraffes, hyenas, rhinos, you get the idea. But where they really came from was the extremely limited imagination of screenwriter Steve Oedekerk (who was funny once long ago on the Ben Stiller Show). Suffice it to say that magical trickery, like a bunch of pairs of beasts chasing after our hero in order to convince him to get building on that ark thingy, served the purpose of filling space and time and not of interesting storytelling. What point there was to animals coming into a place where there would be a localized flood just for the purpose of getting on a boat to ride it out is beyond me.

Speaking of localized floods, it does wash all through the city of Washington, right down the mall, but then it doesn't spill over into the streets intersecting with the mall, and neither are people drowned apparently (I guess that was the one beautiful, sunny day when the Washington Mall was empty). That's some wild-ass flooding!

Yes, about that dam. It was unsound because of the corruption of that aforementioned powerful congressman who is taking our hero under his corrupt wing. It's a part played by John Goodman, and is a powerful reminder that Goodman has done funny stuff in much better movies. He's kind of a cross between the Claude Rains character in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Larry Tate in Bewitched. He's always exasperated that his protégé Evan Baxter keeps having weird embarrassing stuff happen around him just when they need to impress someone important. Really, it's that stupid -- and more!

 

[tbm]

There were no dinos on the ark because they are not mentioned in the bible. Howeverl, the mysterious "behemoth" comes up from time-to-time.

Unless that was one of Roseanne's ancestors.

tbm