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Nov. 19th, 2007 12:17 amOkay, okay... you want to believe that there were dinosaurs in the garden of Eden. Sure, fine, go ahead. I actually thought that too for a while, when I was about ten. I figured they died out in the flood, just like the unicorns did, right? (There's a book and a poem on the flood/unicorn thing, both of which I loved for different reasons as a child, so the notions of unicorns just missing the boat was quite firmly planted in my little brain until I was in late HighSchool, actually.)
But when you say that Dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark I'm going to be eying you funny. Because if the dinosaurs lived past the flood, then wtf killed them? Huh? Huh? Oh, it was something mysterious and we have no real idea, just a few half-baked suggestions? Oooooooookay. But I guess if you're going to take every word in the Bible literally, then two of every kind means two of EVERY kind, so I guess you're stuck with that idiotic notion. I'm really rather interested, though, in how you interpret the bits where the Bible is self-contradictory, if you're going to take the thing literally. And while we're talking about things I'd be interested in knowing, why exactly is the dragon on the welsh flag the best example you could find of dragon legends persisting into modern times?
Also, if you're going to insist that the various fossil layers have to do with location rather than time can you please explain why absolutely none of the modern mammal "kinds" are found in the fossil records along with dinosaurs? Sure, you have a very lame excuse for why human bones aren't found with dinosaur bones, but your little dioramas make it quite clear you think that modern species and fossil species coexisted. If "kinds" including things like sheep or cows or dogs or cats were contemporary with, oh, say dinonychus, why do we not get any modern mammal kinds mixed in with those layers? Did dinosaurs live in one place, and mammals lived somewhere else, all neatly segregated? (Oh, and here's a hint: finding dragonflies in all the various layers is NOT proof that they're all contemporaries. Science has a very nice explanation for the dragonflies, and it's called "a broadly successful animal doesn't die out.") And how the flip was there ROOM on this planet for every "kind" that we have now (whatever the flip a kind is) and every single kind that we've ever found in fossils? How did all the thousands of different sorts of dinosaurs and all the other reptiles and the amphibians and the fish and the insects and everything coexist in a balanced ecosystem where nothing at all went extinct until recently? Explain that one! And what about the ice age mammals? I see you have a lovely little bit about mammoths, but then where did they go? If they were in the time between the flood and now, you'd think we'd have a few still around! And please explain to me a.) where do you get this bizarre notion that snow doesn't fall inland? (Have you never been to Utah? Ski Utah is the state logo, people! And it is most definitely landlocked. I should know, I lived there half my life.) And then b.) what exactly about getting buried in lots of snow can't be explained by modern conditions? Have you ever heard of a thing called an "avalanche" by any chance? Augh, the more I see, the more stupid I find!
The sheer idiocy of these people makes me want to beat their heads in with a good science textbook!
I really loathe young earth creationists. They're lowering the collective IQ of Christianity by a good 50 points, I swear, not to mention all the times morons like them have forced me to try and explain "Well yes I'm Christian, but I'm not one of those Christians." I think I'm starting to have to give that little speech even more often than I get to give the "Yes I'm furry but I'm not one of those furries" one.
But when you say that Dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark I'm going to be eying you funny. Because if the dinosaurs lived past the flood, then wtf killed them? Huh? Huh? Oh, it was something mysterious and we have no real idea, just a few half-baked suggestions? Oooooooookay. But I guess if you're going to take every word in the Bible literally, then two of every kind means two of EVERY kind, so I guess you're stuck with that idiotic notion. I'm really rather interested, though, in how you interpret the bits where the Bible is self-contradictory, if you're going to take the thing literally. And while we're talking about things I'd be interested in knowing, why exactly is the dragon on the welsh flag the best example you could find of dragon legends persisting into modern times?
Also, if you're going to insist that the various fossil layers have to do with location rather than time can you please explain why absolutely none of the modern mammal "kinds" are found in the fossil records along with dinosaurs? Sure, you have a very lame excuse for why human bones aren't found with dinosaur bones, but your little dioramas make it quite clear you think that modern species and fossil species coexisted. If "kinds" including things like sheep or cows or dogs or cats were contemporary with, oh, say dinonychus, why do we not get any modern mammal kinds mixed in with those layers? Did dinosaurs live in one place, and mammals lived somewhere else, all neatly segregated? (Oh, and here's a hint: finding dragonflies in all the various layers is NOT proof that they're all contemporaries. Science has a very nice explanation for the dragonflies, and it's called "a broadly successful animal doesn't die out.") And how the flip was there ROOM on this planet for every "kind" that we have now (whatever the flip a kind is) and every single kind that we've ever found in fossils? How did all the thousands of different sorts of dinosaurs and all the other reptiles and the amphibians and the fish and the insects and everything coexist in a balanced ecosystem where nothing at all went extinct until recently? Explain that one! And what about the ice age mammals? I see you have a lovely little bit about mammoths, but then where did they go? If they were in the time between the flood and now, you'd think we'd have a few still around! And please explain to me a.) where do you get this bizarre notion that snow doesn't fall inland? (Have you never been to Utah? Ski Utah is the state logo, people! And it is most definitely landlocked. I should know, I lived there half my life.) And then b.) what exactly about getting buried in lots of snow can't be explained by modern conditions? Have you ever heard of a thing called an "avalanche" by any chance? Augh, the more I see, the more stupid I find!
The sheer idiocy of these people makes me want to beat their heads in with a good science textbook!
I really loathe young earth creationists. They're lowering the collective IQ of Christianity by a good 50 points, I swear, not to mention all the times morons like them have forced me to try and explain "Well yes I'm Christian, but I'm not one of those Christians." I think I'm starting to have to give that little speech even more often than I get to give the "Yes I'm furry but I'm not one of those furries" one.
