Stan the T. Rex at the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum (Facebook.com)
The Bible is a literal, factual history of the world, including Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood. Dinosaurs rode the ark with Noah. People lived 10 times longer in Biblical times because the Earth’s atmosphere had more oxygen then.
These are just a few of the wrong-headed “facts” on display at The Glendive Dinosaur & Fossil Museum in Glendive, Montana, according to the Great Falls Tribune, which published an exposé on the creationist museum this week.
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“Turtles can live 150 years. Take times 10. You have a 1,500-year-old turtle. All these things are going to be amazing when things live 10 times longer,” he said. […]
The museum’s star attraction is its skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, nicknamed Stan.
“Evolutionists look at Stan and say he’s 45 years old (when he died),” Kline said. “I look at Stan and say maybe 450 years old. That could account for the size of Stan.”
Their longer lifespans and increased oxygen intake, Kline maintains, allowed people and animals to grow to immense size.
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“We’re cutting edge here,” Canen insisted. Scientists and academics who don’t believe the Bible, he said, are lazy thinkers who can’t let go of their old ideas.
“They hold onto (the idea) so long they don’t allow anything to question it,” he said. “If you can trust any historical document, you can trust the Bible.”
There isn’t enough facepalm. People who don’t believe the bible are lazy thinkers who can’t let go of old ideas? <much sputtering> How, just how can anyone say that with a straight face and mean it? That just takes willful ignorance to a new level.
This does remind me of my favourite Kent Hovind quote, because dinosaurs being vegetarian is brought up in these articles as well:
In spite of their ferocious look, many people would probably argue the T-Rex was a vegetarian. The ferocious teeth would have been great for, you know, crushing stuffed pumpkins or something, you know. I don’t know if it has ever been proven they were meat eaters. There is plenty of evidence from cracks in the enamel with chlorophyll stains in them indicating they were certainly eating plants.
Otis Kline ought to change his name to Bell & Howell, because he’s such a great projector.
I didn’t really *need* a reason to drink on a Fri evening, but thanks all the same.
moarscienceplz:
He is at that. In fairness though, that particular brain-watering quote was from the tour guide, Robert Canen.
Jim:
Hey, now you have an excuse for a double. If you breathe in really deeply and get that oxygen, make it a quadruple!
I’m sure my cats bear similar evidence, but no one uses it to claim they can survive solely on a diet of grass, mint, and catnip. Same for larger predators: pumpkins are great chew toys, but I still wouldn’t position them or clean them up for a tiger before a feeding of twelve pounds of meat (anything less would be just an appetizer).
Most of the kittehs I have lived with liked to gnaw and swallow greenery.
And then *hork* it and alot of hair back up again.
I am now picturing this process on the scale of T rex.
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need moar rum
thebookofdave:
Going by the expressions on many faces once they actually tasted the toy, they don’t think they are good eatin’. That said, it’s a bit hard to picture a T-Rex having happy fun times with other dinos and pumpkins. You get the idea it wouldn’t be long before T-Rex was the only dino left.
What always staggered me about the Hovind quote wasn’t the pumpkins, it was that they were stuffed pumpkins. Presumably stuffed with mystery meat, by unknown persons or gods.
Da fuck?
I’m a former creationist, and even I wouldn’t have been convinced by that “more oxygen makes you live longer” bullshit.
The bullshit I heard was that we got fucked up DNA thanks to mutations, possibly because of loss of UV filtering with less atmosphere…or because sin corrupted our bodies.
Yeah, okay, so that was ridiculous too, and it obviously relies on “it’s magic!”, but at least it’s not instantly disproven the first time you learn pure oxygen burns lungs or how scuba gear works.
Poor creationists…when your real reason is “it’s all magic!”, and you know your “scientific” answer CAN’T be “it’s magic”, you gotta bullshit so much.