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A new museum in Boise, Idaho, claims Noah took baby dinosaurs onto his ark because the adults would not fit nor live as long.
The Northwest Science Museum Vision Centre, which opened on 14 June, seeks to educate visitors about life on a 6,000-year-old Earth as told in the Bible.
The creationist museum wants to provide opposition to mainstream science on everything from comet formations (naturalistic explanations fail to provide an adequate answer) to the Earths support of life (simply cannot be the result of chance).
Doug Bennett, the museums executive director, said the museum would show a lot of science.
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http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/21/noah-took-baby-dinosaurs-on-the-ark-because-adults-were-too-big-says-creationist-museum-4770473/
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)I mean, wouldn't it be simpler to just say that they were killed by the flood? Or something? Ouch, my head hurts.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Though I would love to see them try to classify a Tyrannosaurus as actually a species of pine tree.
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)Yeah, I guess once you go literal, you have to go literal all the way! But why couldn't the dinosaurs have died off before ... I suppose that would be too evolutionary or something.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Archae
(46,299 posts)If life is found on Europa, or Ganymede, or on a world circling another star, the fundys' heads will explode.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)It will happen in my lifetime.
Loudly
(2,436 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)tblue37
(65,215 posts)claim that man never landed on the moon, vaccines cause autism, and the Newtown massacre never really happened.
Conservatives still insist that climate change is a hoax.
They could easily claim (and wholeheartedly believe) that life was never found on any another planet or moon, but scientists faked it because it would help liberals in some vague way to perpetrate such a hoax.
mylye2222
(2,992 posts)Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)poop issue. :/ Nobody would want to shovel that!!
Logical
(22,457 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)If they don't want money, I may have to stop in for a look. Maybe they take Shekels?
Phlem
(6,323 posts)It's tiring, annoying, and so painfully obvious it's not science. Why can't be like the UK and just ban it outright from any science class. Let them all go sit in a cave and dwell on the meaning of fire, food, shelter, like their ancestors did before them.
FFS
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)Takket
(21,526 posts)to carry two of every animal, the difference between adult and baby dinosaurs is meaningless.
Logical
(22,457 posts)SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)to collect their eggs including fertile king and queen eggs which he had the ability to identify. Thus, he was able to house them all in a small space and avoid the crunchiness underfoot from 20 million adult insects.
Logical
(22,457 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)God gave them sudden superpowers like Mighty Mouse. Thanks for clearing that up.
Logical
(22,457 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)keep flying until they found dry land? Unless maybe the insects thought Noah might be lonely without them and wanted to keep him company. Or maybe the insects smelled all the feces on the Ark and needed to come and feed.
Logical
(22,457 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)It's a legitimate concern I think.
Logical
(22,457 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Could have fit it all on a portable hard drive and it would have fit on a much smaller ark.
elias49
(4,259 posts)Duh!
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Or something
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)or more precisely, descendants of them, on to his ark (more like raft) we call them Chickens.
Yes, there was a real noah, and it is a babylonian myth that precedes the "Biblical" far more enhanced one by about 1500 years and it is far less... shall we say... exaggerated.
Hekate
(90,538 posts)...at the noise and destruction of what they had unleashed in a moment of petty irritation. They promised not to do that again.
tanyev
(42,514 posts)Which is why there are no dinosaurs roaming the earth today, kiddos.
Maybe that is when BBQ sauce was born too.
I didn't know the Flintstones was a biblical story!
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)It was a documentary based on science.
Godhumor
(6,437 posts)tanyev
(42,514 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)It's my new argument that I hurl at religious types.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)You can't tell a baby dinosaur's gender until it grows into a teenager.
God was too busy that day planning the Great Flood, so Noah had to figure it out on his own. He ended up taking two girl dinosaurs.
The rest, as they say, is History...
redwitch
(14,940 posts)TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)...I'm just so excited to read confirmation that the world is truly in its infancy. Soooooo young!
Everything just all feels so much fresher, all of a sudden... I'm weeping.
TYY
Now that I think about it... I'm in Utah; just one magical conservative enclave south of Idaho... ROAD TRIP!!!
cali
(114,904 posts)known how old the critters were? If he took mature animals, they might have turned out to have been past breeding age. I guess ol' Noah did check to make sure he had females and males.
Retrograde
(10,128 posts)and therefore didn't have to take quite as many different species: everybody knows that giraffes, aka camelopards, are a cross between camels and leopards! Yes, this was a serious explanation: to be fair to the people who proposed this, it was the 16th century and Europeans were just getting around to discovering the scientific method, and were more open to changing their theories than modern creationists.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)You got your green herbivores and your carnivores, some long necked brontos and some pterydactals, a stegosaurus babe and a T Rex too,
but there wasn't any room for the unicorn.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)minotaurs, dragons, centaurs, elves, goblins, phoenixes, and griffins. But what happened to mermaids? They could swim. They didn't even need Noah.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)However, the thing that really and finally and definitely determined Noah to stop with enough species for purely business purposes and let the rest become extinct, was an incident of the last days: an excited stranger arrived with some most alarming news. He said he had been camping among some mountains and valleys about six hundred miles away, and he had seen a wonderful thing there: he stood upon a precipice overlooking a wide valley, and up the valley he saw a billowy black sea of strange animal life coming. Presently the creatures passed by, struggling, fighting, scrambling, screeching, snorting -- horrible vast masses of tumultuous flesh! Sloths as big as an elephant; frogs as big as a cow; a megatherium and his harem huge beyond belief; saurians and saurians and saurians, group after group, family after family, species after species -- a hundred feet long, thirty feet high, and twice as quarrelsome; one of them hit a perfectly blameless Durham bull a thump with its tail and sent it whizzing three hundred feet into the air and it fell at the man's feet with a sigh and was no more. The man said that these prodigious animals had heard about the Ark and were coming. Coming to get saved from the flood. And not coming in pairs, they were all coming: they did not know the passengers were restricted to pairs, the man said, and wouldn't care a rap for the regulations, anyway -- they would sail in that Ark or know the reason why. The man said the Ark would not hold the half of them; and moreover they were coming hungry, and would eat up everything there was, including the menagerie and the family. --Mark Twain
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/twainlfe.htm
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)that's what my daughter's dumbass ex was trying to tell my grandson a few years ago.
redwitch
(14,940 posts)Or maybe it isn't just the unicorns we're not seeing to this very day.
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)pit bulls!
TYY
LOL!
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,311 posts)Museum.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)...that the dinosaurs sunk in the mud when they left the ark, and thus died and turned into fossils.
Mojo Electro
(362 posts)Please tell me more.