Christians waste $25-million

[Svenska Aeroplan]

The Creation Museum - motto: "Prepare to Believe!" - will be the first institution in the world whose contents, with the exception of a few turtles swimming in an artificial pond, are entirely fake.

[Crube]

Christians don't believe in dinosaurs! Believe it!

[margot]

Christians do believe in dinosaurs. However they believe that dinosaurs still exist or did until very recently (like the 1950s) according to my Christian science teacher, anyway.

My science teacher devoted an entire lesson to how natural selection doesn't prove evolution and she made us write out "natural selection does not provide evidence for evolution" five times.

drdino.com

check it

[Battle_Pope]

a magical man in the sky doesn't really prove evolution either, jus sayin'

[margot]

no, she tells us about all the proof there is for creationism.

[Battle_Pope]

a christian science teacher is pretty ironic anyway.

[Gundampilotspaz]

Christians do believe in dinosaurs. However they believe that dinosaurs still exist or did until very recently (like the 1950s) according to my Christian science teacher, anyway.

My science teacher devoted an entire lesson to how natural selection doesn't prove evolution and she made us write out "natural selection does not provide evidence for evolution" five times.

drdino.com

check it

You..... you refused... right?

[margot]

i like my A.

to be honest, whatever. I had doubts about evolution before I entered that class. Not that I believe in creationism either.

[Svenska Aeroplan]

Christianity - the only religion you can force on people and not get fired over!

[margot]

i bet you could force the other religions on people, just other religions aren't full of so many intolerant idiots so people don't.

[Samurai Drifter]

Christians do believe in dinosaurs. However they believe that dinosaurs still exist or did until very recently (like the 1950s) according to my Christian science teacher, anyway.

No, they don't believe that.

A lot of them believe the skeletons are much younger than they actually are (believing carbon dating to be wrong), and some believe that there were never any dinosaurs.

This is one of the biggest wastes of money I've ever heard of.

[margot]

uhh I think they generally believe all different things. It's not like I made up the christian teacher and the christian website that talks about how dinosaurs exist/did until recently.

[Samurai Drifter]

Well, almost everybody I know except for me is a Christian, and not even the craziest among them believe that.

[darkon]

I was always taught you couldn't trust carbon dating. "How do you know these skeletons aren't from a cat?" - One of my religion teachers.

[Poophy]

Damit this is why we need a time machine! Its odd, they are ok with interpreting some things like, “just because dinosaurs were never mention doesn’t been that they weren’t there” but something like “the world and everything in it was created in 7days” has to be taken literally!

We pass the site where one day an animatronic Adam will squat beside the Tree. With this commitment to authenticity, I find myself asking what they are doing about the fig leaf. Marsh considers this gravely and replies: "He is appropriately positioned, so he can be modest. There will be a lamb or something there next to him. We are very careful about that: some of our donors are scared to death about nudity."

I love that paragraph!

A little licence is allowed, however, where the Bible falls down on the details. The depiction of a wall-sized section of Noah's Ark is based, not on the traditional picture of a flat-decked boat, but one designed by navy engineers with a keel and bows, which might, at least, have floated. "

Lol note my original statement

framed with heraldic shields and filled with images of dragons - dragons, you see, being what dinosaurs became.

Am I the only one that bothered to read that far?

[JesusTheNinja]

No money spent on robotic dinosaurs is ever 'wasted'; there could be no higher use for money than robot dinosaurs.

I surprised by some of the figures in that article. There are 50 million Creationists in the US? That seems way too high. Then again, I'm from a pretty moderate area religion-wise, so maybe I'm not exposed to their sheer numbers.

[Poophy]

used to work at Universal Studios in Los Angeles and then in Japan before he saw the light

And he saw this light glowing from within the wallets of American Christians!

[margot]

no, dinosaurs were mentioned in the bible, or what could be interpreted as such.

15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

16 Lo now, his strength [is] in his loins, and his force [is] in the navel of his belly.

17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his thighs are wrapped together.

18 His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron.

19 He [is] the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach [unto him].

20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

22 The shady trees cover him [with] their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, [and] hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

24 He taketh it with his eyes: [his] nose pierceth through snares.

and

1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

11Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

13Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

15His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

17They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

19Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

22In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

30Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

32He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

34He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

(Job 40:15-24) and (Job 41:1-34)

[margot]

I was always taught you couldn't trust carbon dating. "How do you know these skeletons aren't from a cat?" - One of my religion teachers.

I heard the co2 in the atmosphere and a lot of other things made it unreliable.

[Poophy]

no, dinosaurs were mentioned in the bible, or what could be interpreted as such.

15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

16 Lo now, his strength [is] in his loins, and his force [is] in the navel of his belly.

17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his thighs are wrapped together.

18 His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron.

19 He [is] the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach [unto him].

20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

22 The shady trees cover him [with] their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, [and] hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

24 He taketh it with his eyes: [his] nose pierceth through snares.

and

1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

4Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

6Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

9Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

11Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

12I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

13Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

14Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

15His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

17They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

19Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

20Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.

21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

22In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.

23The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

24His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

26The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

27He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

28The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

29Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

30Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

31He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

32He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

33Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

34He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

(Job 40:15-24) and (Job 41:1-34)

When you first read any of those, do you think, dinosaur… ?

[Dramatic Conclusion]

I heard the co2 in the atmosphere and a lot of other things made it unreliable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dating

[margot]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dating

right and if you read the wikipedia talk page they were like "lol no i hate christians".

I think science probably has a lot of bias in it.

[margot]

When you first read any of those, do you think, dinosaur… ?

He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his thighs are wrapped together.

18 His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron.

19 He [is] the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach [unto him].

huge fucking animal with a tail, sure I thought of dinosaurs.

the second passage obviously represents a sea monster, like a dinosaur who lived in the water.

ehh not to say i nessecarily believe any of this stuff, just it's wrong to say that nothing like dinosaurs weren't mentioned at all in the bible. Creationists like that are pretty stupid. They think all the evidence for evolution is faked and the reason that there isn't more evidence for creationism is because of "censorship". Like they view geology as something that was created to destroy christianity.

[Ceraziefish]

Everything written in the Bible is made to control people.

*Shrug.*

[Siendra]

I heard the co2 in the atmosphere and a lot of other things made it unreliable.

Oh, carbon dating is unreliable all right, but only to a certain extent. Once the margin of error is removed, all fossils from the Jurassic period backwards are STILL greater in age then creationist say the world is.

Mind you, that margin of error was calculated by using object that were known to be X years old. It could easily become much, much higher once you hit anything over two hundred years.

*shrug*