Adam and Eve and Dinosaurs?

[WagnerianDisciple]

I had to read. A Creationist museum event.

"Like most natural history museums, this one has exhibits showing dinosaurs roaming the Earth. Except here, the giant reptiles share the forest with Adam and Eve." Great, Jurassic Park does exist now.

And further - "Scientists say fossils and sophisticated nuclear dating technology show that the Earth is more than 4 billion years old, the first dinosaurs appeared around 200 million years ago, and they died out well before the first human ancestors arose a few million years ago."

Works for me but this one smacks the idea right on the chopper. Luke T best be on this one.

Is anyone going? Start a small protest? Check out the link - http://www.answersingenesis.org/museum/overview.asp

This is real and happening. How does this get funded and happen? Creationism goes Disney. We are what we believe.

I don't know where this belongs but for now it seemed like the place. Migrate to science unless it's there already.

Hope Adam can outrun, outplay and outlast the dinos. And what was with Eve and those snakes?

WD

 

[Upchurch]

How does this get funded and happen?

I would imagine that fundamentalism can reach very deep into fundamentalists' pockets, even if those pockets aren't very deep to begin with.

 

[rachaella]

I would imagine that fundamentalism can reach very deep into fundamentalists' pockets, even if those pockets aren't very deep to begin with.

Ditto, my aunt, very sick and without health insurance, asked my uncle, a CPA, to help her figure out where to cut corners. But she wouldn't stop tithing 15% to her church. No way, no how.

 

[bobcarp]

If Adam and Eve were the first two people and we're all decended from them, why aren't we all the same race as Adam and Eve?

 

[Foster Zygote]

If Adam and Eve were the first two people and we're all decended from them, why aren't we all the same race as Adam and Eve?

Frighteningly enough the Christian Identity movement has the answer. It seems that Adam and Eve were "white" and only "white" people are true humans. The Jews are descended from Satan and everybody else (including my wife and some of my own ancestors) are soulless "mud people".

Steven

 

[Meri]

I would imagine that fundamentalism can reach very deep into fundamentalists' pockets, even if those pockets aren't very deep to begin with.

Sounds right. I was, as much as I hate to admit it, watching the 700 club once (and only once. I want to be clear on that.), and since at that time Pat Robertson was selling a book on biblical economics, or some such thing, the show was filled with stories of people whose financial state turned around once they started giving the 700 club money. People believe that they will be rewarded if they give money to people like this.

 

[JollyRoger]

I kinda thought that Adam and Eve where the first human like creatures to evolve a level of intelligence and an understanding of spoken language that was sufficient to allow them to see the value of story telling. Over the years .... the story changed and eventually someone wrote it down and it made its way into what they now call the Bible

I always wanted to combine both the creation and evolution theories, but this is all I have thought up so far

 

[Foster Zygote]

I remember when I was young, living in a Christian household, my parents used to listen to a regular radio broadcast by James Dobson. One of these broadcasts still sticks in my mind to this day. Dobson explained to his listeners that the theory of evolution was virtually dead among biologists and that few if any of them really believed in it anymore. It seems that the schools just hadn't heard this bit of information yet but soon they would get the message and evolutionary theory would become a thing of the past that future people would laugh about like phrenology. It wasn't until I began to learn about evolution from good professors in college that I thought back to that statement by Dobson. I imagine that his own tendency to cherry pick self satisfying information enabled him to really believe what he was saying but the fact is he was completely misleading his listeners. But as always the target audience for this sort of creationist misinformation tends to have little to no scientific education and thus they will eagerly consume what pleases them.

Steven

 

[l0rca]

"wouldn't stop tithing 15% to her church"

A tithe is 1/10th.

 

[Kopji]

Gape at the towering face of Grand Canyon along the front wall, while bones of dreadful dinosaurs hint of catastrophe.

There are no dinosaur bones inside the Grand Canyon layers. Science explains this fact.

 

[sophia8]

"wouldn't stop tithing 15% to her church"

A tithe is 1/10th.

So somebody was scamming her with a porky about "tithe" meaning 15%...
Anyway, why couldn't her damm church help out? I always thought one of the reasons why so many Americans are church members is because of the undeniably useful social support network provided.