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brooklynite

(94,591 posts)
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 11:32 AM Feb 2016

I'm getting sick and tired of dinosaurs being forced on our children

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(nb - this is a British website)

I'm really concerned about dinosaurs, and I think something needs to be done. The science behind them is pretty flimsy, and I for one do not want my children being taught lies. Did you know that nobody had even heard of dinosaurs before the 1800s, when they were invented by curio-hungry Victorians?

Charles Darwin's later theory of evolution entirely disproved dinosaurs, yet the dinosaur lie was twisted and adapted to try to make it fit. Any proper look at the facts will reveal that dinosaurs simply never existed.

Aside from the educational aspect, dinosaurs are a very bad example for children. At my children's school, several children were left in tears after one of their classmates (who had evidently been exposed to dinosaurs), became bestially-minded and ran around the classroom roaring and pretending to be a dinosaur. Then he bit three children on the face. One poor girl has been left with a severely dented nose and the whole class was left traumatised by this horrible display.

Nothing about dinosaurs is suitable for children, from their total lack of family values through to their non-existence from any serious scientific point of view.

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I'm getting sick and tired of dinosaurs being forced on our children (Original Post) brooklynite Feb 2016 OP
Satire? Dretownblues Feb 2016 #1
LOL - my grandchildren LOVE BlueMTexpat Feb 2016 #2
total lack of family values? nt. uriel1972 Feb 2016 #3
That was copied from Facebook DavidDvorkin Feb 2016 #4

BlueMTexpat

(15,369 posts)
2. LOL - my grandchildren LOVE
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 11:43 AM
Feb 2016

dinosaurs as do most children of my acquaintance! I would have to force them to relinquish them.

... their non-existence from any serious scientific point of view.


Well, that bit on Jesus riding about on them falls into that category, but as for scientific evidence of their existence, a visit to any natural history museum might provide some.

Stirring up trouble again, are ya, boston bean?
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