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2011/02/18 20:33:41
Subject: Creationists solve the riddle of T Rex dentistry...
It has 6inch serrated cutting teeth to eat coconuts...
T. Rex ate Coconuts says Creation Museum
By Chris V. Thangham.
Creation Museum says T-Rex used to eat coconuts and used to live at the same time as Adam and Eve.
A Creation Museum was built in Petersburg, Kentucky at a cost of $25 Million dollars. It has a 20ft waterfall and in its base children can play amongst the dinosaurs. It also shows a number of ancient people overshadowed by a giant T-Rex, Adam and Eve swimming in a river with the giant reptiles and creatures, and even a scale model of Noah’s Ark.
In this Noah’s Ark, it shows Noah taking baby dinosaurs not the giant ones, to solve the problem by fitting them into this ship. Also, it shows how dinosaurs are friendly with other animals such as giraffes, penguins, hippos and bears.
There is a museum guide tells visitors that before Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise, all the dinosaurs were peaceful plant-eaters. The guide says that in Genesis 1:30 God gives “green herb” to every creature to eat and so there are no predators. But when a museum visitor asked why “T-Rex has six inch long serrated teeth”, the guide tells them that dinosaurs use it to open the tough outer layer of the coconuts. The dinosaurs started eating flesh only after Adam and Eve sinned and was cast out of paradise.
Sarda Sahney of Scientific Blogging gives a final opinion: I think the people who built this museum are smoking a bit too much ‘green herb’.
Why would they spend $25 million dollars to create a museum that is going to be a laughing stock? There are no records available that man and dinosaurs coexisted together. They could have used this money to educate themselves and others.
Do you believe in this Creation museum’s explanation of Dinosaurs eating coconuts?
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2011/02/18 20:58:07
Subject: Creationists solve the riddle of T Rex dentistry...
It probably won't help people who think the Earth is only 6000 years old but I don't think Coconuts had evolved when Dinosaurs existed.
I have a creationist dinosaur book somewhere and it's just wacko, full of blatant lies and untruths. For instance, they claim that Noah's ark has been proven (how?!) to have been big enough to take all the animals, but that "although there were many types of dinosaur names there were only about 50 types of dinosaurs".
They clearly don't understand what a "species" is, all those names refer to "different types" and there are thousands of distinct dinosaurs.
It's sad that these books are seemingly in continuous print for the purposes of indoctrinating and lying to children to warp their understanding of the real world.
2011/02/18 20:59:04
Subject: Creationists solve the riddle of T Rex dentistry...
An interesting angle? Yes it is. A sensible angle.... hmmm.
Considering that modern science has a lot of evidence that evolution happened (though it has also proved that if evolution is a complete answer there are serious problems with both human culture and the theory.) I think to believe completely in creationism is a bit silly. Also considering that Adam and Eve are the Hebrew words for man and woman I think it is not a long shot to say Genesis is a metaphor and not to be taken seriously ( it sort of fits (read loosely) with evolution in a way)
Those are my thoughts on it anyway...
2011/02/18 21:02:21
Subject: Re:Creationists solve the riddle of T Rex dentistry...
Howard A Treesong wrote:
They clearly don't understand what a "species" is, all those names refer to "different types" and there are thousands of distinct dinosaurs.
To be fair, paleontological classification is a hotly debated topic (we can hardly determine the viability of offspring), and I've definitely heard it argued that a great many "species" of dinosaur are not species at all.
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2011/02/18 21:04:33
Subject: Re:Creationists solve the riddle of T Rex dentistry...
Also, let's look at things from a thermodynamic/biomechanical perspective...
I'm a 180lb male human. I require 3000cals a day to function (including exercise). This is nearly ten coconuts.
I'm a 20,000lbs, 18ft tall Tyrannosaurus Rex. I require (roughly) 100,000 cals a day. This is Nearly 3 thousand coconuts.
One tree will produce c. 50 coconuts at any one time. This means that a T-Rex would need to strip 60 trees a day in order to feed itself. Then move on, as those coconuts sure don't grow overnight...
Also, neither crabs nor monkeys are ten tons of bristling 6inch teeth, yet they manage to nom down the nuts with reckless abandon.
For everytime anyone ever goes to that museum, reads whatever sign says T-Rexs ate coconuts, then goes on to believe that 'fact,' I shall kill a kitten.
No, TWO kittens.
Gah.
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2011/02/18 21:11:46
Subject: Re:Creationists solve the riddle of T Rex dentistry...
This is what the most powerful of all lizards has been reduced to?
Wasn't there any meat in Biblical times?
Nope, it hadn't been invented yet.
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2011/02/18 21:13:58
Subject: Creationists solve the riddle of T Rex dentistry...
Howard A Treesong wrote:
They clearly don't understand what a "species" is, all those names refer to "different types" and there are thousands of distinct dinosaurs.
To be fair, paleontological classification is a hotly debated topic (we can hardly determine the viability of offspring), and I've definitely heard it argued that a great many "species" of dinosaur are not species at all.
I'm aware of that, paleobotany is even worse. But just 50 types? Give me strength.
Kilkrazy wrote:I thought T Rexes ate meat.
Well according to my book, they all ate veggies prior to the original sin. After that they some started eating each other. The fact there are no Tyrannosaurs with vegetarian teeth needs some explaining, glad they have one.
2011/02/18 21:38:34
Subject: Re:Creationists solve the riddle of T Rex dentistry...
daedalus wrote:So then what is the creationist's explanation for why the dinosaurs are dead? Did they not pray hard enough?
They didn't make it to Noah's Arch. There is also reference to a horned horse in the bible, so apparently Unicorns existed once too.
Well, if you think about it, don't alot of cultures/area's in the world have some sort of idea for a Unicorn? That could lend a little bit of credence that it did.
Kind of like Dragons. Now, I'm not saying that they do exist, but alot, and I mean ALOT, of cultures seem to have some sort of dragon type creature, ya know?
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2011/02/18 21:48:26
Subject: Re:Creationists solve the riddle of T Rex dentistry...
Crom wrote:$25 million and that is all they could come up with? When there are like tons of creationists out there that are actually intelligent?
While I do not agree with this guy, he is obviously smart.
No he isn't. He's just an individual who knows how to sound smart in order to impress credulous people that are lacking in intellectual curiosity. It's pseudoscience.
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2011/02/18 21:50:45
Subject: Re:Creationists solve the riddle of T Rex dentistry...
Crom wrote:$25 million and that is all they could come up with? When there are like tons of creationists out there that are actually intelligent?
While I do not agree with this guy, he is obviously smart.
No he isn't. He's just an individual who knows how to sound smart in order to impress credulous people that are lacking in intellectual curiosity. It's pseudoscience.
Not unlike Global Warming research.
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