# Christians Against Dinosaurs website **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2019, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-against-dinosaurs-website/838802 "2019-08-17T17:09:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-against-dinosaurs-website/838802/21 "2019-08-18T16:16:11Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I have been chatting with someone there and they are staying on script, first asking what trolling is and then denying it and explaining their mission. What is their position on whether the earth is flat? ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-against-dinosaurs-website/838802/22 "2019-08-18T20:19:42Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > From the site: > > [Ancient Acutiramus](https://www.christiansagainstdinosaurs.com/ancient-acutiramus/) > > This fascinating giant scorpion lived its life entirely in the water 400 million years ago, though there is debate as to whether it was a true predator or a scavenger. These scorpions also had teeth, on their claws, because God didn’t think regular claws were badass enough. > > This is just one of millions of REAL and interesting species of animals that actually existed outside of the alleged dinosaurs. Further proof that the dinosaur myth takes so much attention away from legitimate and far more fascinating creatures in our history. Stop wasting your time talking about dinosaurs, atheists. > > (with a picture of a cute plush toy scorpion) > > This has got to be satire, right? Now here’s the weird thing - this accepts that the earth is, you know, old. What I understand as the (old) traditional argument runs _Earth is new, therefore fossils cannot be real_\*. And so from there you have,\* and things that are fossilised therefore never existed\*. And then you can conclude, no dinosaurs. And that has its own internal consistency, after a fashion. But if you accept that Earth is old, what’s your gripe with dinosaurs? Just don’t like them? If I’m honest, if I was doing the trolling I would do it a lot better than this. I vote real. j - - and were placed there by God to test our faith ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-against-dinosaurs-website/838802/23 "2019-08-18T20:36:34Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I have been chatting with someone there and they are staying on script, first asking what trolling is and then denying it and explaining their mission. Post them! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-against-dinosaurs-website/838802/24 "2019-08-19T01:48:08Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > When our kids were starting elementary school, we considered several private ones, including a well-regarded Christian academy. When I traveled to each school and requested a copy of their books to look through, I found the Christian school’s science books were claiming dinosaur bones were a test. **Put there by God to test for unbelievers.** Shouldn’t God already know who the unbelievers are? Why the need for a “test”? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-against-dinosaurs-website/838802/25 "2019-08-19T02:06:39Z")
Is this going to be on Pay Per View? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-against-dinosaurs-website/838802/26 "2019-08-19T03:01:24Z")
There is/was some thought that CAD started as a poe but then the ‘True Believers’ took it over. My introduction to CAD, [Ra-Men special - Dinosaur deniers - with Kristen Auclair](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72M-f4BhCGQ) CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Labor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Labor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labor)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-against-dinosaurs-website/838802/27 "2019-08-19T17:18:26Z")
As a Christian this type of website just makes me cringe. I think there are perfectly valid explanations of dinosaurs that are not contradictory to the bible. I believe that this is true for a majority of science, it meshes with the Bible. Fundamentally the problem with Christianity and science is that the persons on Jesus’ side are making arguments that don’t correspond with the Bible. And if Christians would make our point in a loving, thinking, reasoned manner everyone would benefit. _Please be gentle with your replies._ ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-against-dinosaurs-website/838802/28 "2019-08-19T18:26:48Z")
> [@pullin](#): > > When our kids were starting elementary school, we considered several private ones, including a well-regarded Christian academy. When I traveled to each school and requested a copy of their books to look through, I found the Christian school’s science books were claiming dinosaur bones were a test. Put there by God to test for unbelievers. I graduated high school in 1987 from a small Christian school that supported our non-denominational (read: fundamentalist) church. This is what we were taught. Fossils were planted by God in the Earth during creation to test the faith of future inhabitants/children of God. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-against-dinosaurs-website/838802/29 "2019-08-19T18:35:41Z")
There is plenty of shit going on in the world without the need for creationist myth to test believers. Is god so cruel as to test his creations before sending them to hell? Who would want to be owned by a being such as that? Methinks this sort of cruelty is man made ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-against-dinosaurs-website/838802/30 "2019-08-19T18:40:31Z")
> [@Labor](#): > > _Please be gentle with your replies._ I will be as gentle as I can, IT’S A SPOOF! YOU HAVE BEEN WHOOSHED! Quit being a sucker and play along with it. I mean, I don’t troll here, but IRL I can be very sincere, like that Kristen Auclair from CAD. The advantage she has here is that she’s cute and young and looks and talks like a million other YouTube morons. She draws you in then tells you about an experiment showing that pterosaurs with leathery wings couldn’t possibly fly by taking a standard kite and draping a leather jacket over it. Of course it can’t fly because it’s too heavy, and anyone who has ever flown a kite would know it and laugh at the “experiment.” Unless your preconceptions say that this is a real creationist site. Then you get mad at the idiocy, not realizing you have been whooshed. Then there’s the guy claiming that these days dinosaurs are too sexy, conflating studies of dino reproduction with a sexualizing of them and letting slip how attractive he finds them. Or having no problem with a sea scorpion hundreds of millions of years old while still claiming that dino fossils are fake. It’s a brilliant joke made funnier by the people who don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-against-dinosaurs-website/838802/31 "2019-08-24T03:08:12Z")
> [@MeanJoe](#): > > I graduated high school in 1987 from a small Christian school that supported our non-denominational (read: fundamentalist) church. This is what we were taught. Fossils were planted by God in the Earth during creation to test the faith of future inhabitants/children of God. I have a long time friend who believes this very thing. But it makes absolutely no sense to me. It seems more of a rebuttal to the “begats” chronology. In other words, why of all things, would god pick the age of the earth to test people with? I honestly don’t get it. What exactly is he testing? If somewhere in the Bible some one claimed that god decreed that the world started in the year zero of the Gregorian calendar and you must believe that to get into heaven, ok maybe. But isn’t the age of the earth a relatively new concern? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christians-against-dinosaurs-website/838802.md?page=1)