This is just odd. From WorldNewsDailyReport, a clickbait fake news site (hence no link), comes a story a lot of people are repeating.
Petersburg, KY | A leading paleontologist claims he has found evidence linking homosexuality and the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Anthony Othman, a renowned paleontologist and leading curator at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, firmly believes homosexuality, and not an asteroid colliding with Earth as is commonly believed, was the main cause of the disappearance of the dinosaurs more than 66 million years ago.
His evidence? He claims to have found a group of velociraptors that are all male, and to have selected for homosexuality in iguanas and found they lost all interest in heterosexuality in 3 or 4 generations. All made-up nonsense.
But here’s what I found odd. There are no leading paleontologists working at the Creation “Museum”. There is no one named Anthony Othman working there. The picture at the top of the page is this one, on the left; the one on the right is a photo of creationist Mark Armitage:
So even Answers in Genesis is targeted by fake news!
Also obviously fake because no AiG spokesperson would say the dinosaurs lived 66 million years ago (the Earth is less than ten thousand years old, silly), and while they might hate homosexuality as much as this imaginary guy, they know the dinosaurs disappeared in The Flood, except for the few that were on the big wooden boat, who went extinct when medieval knights hunted them down.
And just how would anyone “select for homosexuality”? Pick the lizards that only mated with their own sex to make up the next generation? Not much of an F2 generation, if so.
Of course there are parthenogenetic lizard species in which the females mate with other females of the same species, which functions purely as a behavioral mechanism to get the hormones going for ovulation. Could they be thinking of that? But those lizards don’t have any trouble reproducing. Curious.
Perhaps he was influenced by detailed recent studies of dinosaur mating behaviour published by the eminent Professor C. Tingle of the University of Amazon?
On the other hand, in the gay world you’re considered a veritable dinosaur once you hit your thirties – there could be something to this…
Get a bunch of Teh Gay and only allow the lizards they like to mate?
Actually, being serious for a moment, I suppose you could do something like that only allowing the lizards who show an apparent preference for the same sex to mate with the opposite sex. Which moves the goalposts, How do you measure “an apparent preference for the same sex”?
The K-T boundary? Did dinos use iridium as glitter for their pride parades?
The dinosaurs at my feeders this morning didn’t look particularly gay – they also didn’t look extinct.
Please tell me that the Big Gay Wooden Box has a life-size diorama or painting of this hunt!
It might be worth the price of admission just to ROFL at this.
Isn’t that the “big wooden gay boat”,or has AiG done away with the rainbow motif? Would seem more appropriate now to keep it since they’re were gay dinos on the thing.
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Gay iguanas? Wait..wut?
How would he know? Questionnaires? Tiny Pride flags?
@ Le Chifforobe #7:
The Big Gay Wooden Boat even painted it in fully animated technicolour!
Le Chifforobe, #7,
SyFy movie of the week! King Arthur vs. The Same T-Rex and Raptor 3D Models We’ve Been Using All Along!
All the evidence you need is in the song from the documentary ‘The Flintstones’.
Remember that this is a guy who thinks that he found impossibly intact dinosaur cells in a horribly preserved bone that was heavily contaminated with the remains of soil-dwelling organisms, and his main evidence is that the cells possess structures like filopodia that are also possessed by soil microorganisms. I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if he thinks the dinosaurs that were on the ark went extinct because they all turned gay.
Also, this serves as another good example of what fake news actually is; a complete hoax put out by a website that’s been mocked up to look like a news site. Trump and the rest of the right wing noise machine should learn what the term actually means.
None of these lorgical thort processors matter because deep in their hort of horts, these people know all this to be true. And the contertiction between AIG saying the dinosaurs died in the Flood and WorldNewsDailyReport is just your opinion.
I also offer free snark-detector recollarbrations.
You heard it here first fam, dinosaurs belong to the gays now. The T-Rex from Jurassic Park is a lesbian and you can’t convince me otherwise.
O. M. G.
And the whole point of Jurassic Park was that the dinosaurs developed spontaneous parthenogenesis . . . just like the whiptail lizards referred to in comment #1!!!
It all fits! Big Gay Parthenogenic Dinosaurs in the Big Gay Wooden Box . . . !!
what we gonna do now??..?
I’m skeerd
Owlmirror #17
Correction, the dinos in Jurassic Park developed the ability to switch their sex in order to reproduce.
In other words, they were transgender dinosaurs!
Their agenda is scarier than their teeth!