The Ferrett describes a book he came across entitled “A Creationist’s View of DINOSAURS and the Theory Of Evolution.” It’s a graphic novel, and, oh goodness… well, let me just share with you a couple of pages:
I especially like the ferocious, flesh-hungry Triceratopses.
And I bet drowned animals often turn into fossils.
No, wait… Their remains would have to have floated about, in that position, for 40 days, and then got swept up on a shore that happened to have the right materials for fossilisation.
Oh, and the prehistoric water reptiles; they drowned too. Silly them.
Remind me just WHERE the Evil Fallen Angel got the power to make HUGE reptiles?
Because a GOD might be able to do that, but a fallen angel? No way! Lucifer is supposed to wander around tempting humans, not making giant monsters to attack them.
“Eat the forbidden fruit or the T-rex’ll eat you.”
Awww, Man…The holy rollers are on another run against reality again, aren’t they? The sad thing is the fact that a lot of otherwise intelligent, articulate, likeable people seem to check their brain at the door to the local fundamentalist church, and, from that point, any attempt at pointing out the obviously absurd is an exercise in futility. Couple that with the growing political power they seem to be flexing, and those of us who base our decisions on our logic, reason, and meybe our own ethics are going to be in trouble.
Oh, so then they weren’t “missionary lizards,” as another of these nutcases claimed?
I kid you not. Missionary lizards.
You’d think that if the fundies insist on their beliefs being recognized as scientific fact, they’d at least compare stories beforehand.
Though, personally, I still think this lot are crazier:
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp
People who believe in anything other than the Bible, facts included, are probably just evil Satanist scum to them no matter what.
You’re kidding me right? This cartoon is a made up joke…right?!?
The comment made about dinosaur necks being arched upwards as if they were straining to keep their heads above water is absurd (see the note in the second panel). In general, for anyone who would bother to take notice, when birds die (and dinosaurs really were just big birds) the neck muscles contract and the head is bent back. That’s why so many dinosaur fossils are found with arched necks. This is just another example of how creationists distort scientific evidence in support of their claims.
No joke! Follow the linked title to be taken to a page where you can buy the book for just $4.95. I have to admit I did just that out of curiosity. Look for a review soon.
I like the way predator and prey (t-rex and triceratops) both charge the ark together. Like wolves and sheep charging together. Not a myth, kiddies. Scientific fact.
I have, myself, been the victim of a combined wolf-sheep charge, and I think that it is highly insensitive of you to mock my pain!
I will pray to Jesus tonight that he does not send you to Hell for abusing a poor old woman like me!
Mark; probably also worth noting that animals which drown aren’t often found in that pose, too. But I’m pretty sure you’re right; it’s like how insects’ legs fold up when they die.
The fundamentalist attempt at being “trendy” is actually pretty frightening (perhaps even more so than the combined wolf-sheep charge, which sounds like some sort of martial art move)…
The comics designed to tell ACTUAL facts are getting some promotion, right? I mean, I think people miss out on a lot by not achknowledging that, at one point, there were NO humans.
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Why didn’t they have the silly unicorns defending the damn Ark? After all weren’t they left out when the rain came down because they were silly, playful beasts. They surely would have been there. Dinos vs Unicorns for the win!!