I kid you not. From this site:
The Deluge is important to the Creation Evidence Museum, because, despite its attempts to cite really big men with really big feet who have lived in our lifetimes – Shaquille O’Neal and an eight-foot-tall guy wearing “a suit we made for him” are mentioned – Dr. Baugh’s main justification for his giant human footprints is that every human who lived before the biblical flood was a giant. To prove this, the museum is building a suitably titanic “hyperbaric biosphere,” in which it hopes to reproduce “Earth’s original pre-Flood environment” – lots of oxygen, lots of atmospheric pressure – and grow dinosaurs .
Not only will the pre-Flood environment of the hyperbaric biosphere make creatures larger, insists Dr. Baugh, it will make them smarter and nicer.
Bolding mine.
Jurassic Park was bad enough. Fundamentalist Christian Jurassic Park would be worse (I think), even if they are “Smarter and Nicer”. Consider this offering:
The Museum stresses the interaction between book-of-Genesis Bible figures and dinosaurs, because, as Vernon noted, “kids love dinosaurs.” Not all Bible literalists, however, love dinosaurs, as the D word does not appear in the Bible. The Museum thus has two groups to sway: the disbelievers, and the super-literalists. This second group is critical, for without dinosaurs you might as well kiss the kids (and a lot of adults) goodbye. We asked Vernon if he believed. “Yes,” he replied. “They were on the Ark.”
tdn
May 16, 2007, 9:11pm
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The dinosaurs, or the kids?
Would a T. Rex count as a clean or unclean animal?
Unclean, I would guess, along with every other lizard.
guppy
May 16, 2007, 9:41pm
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Aren’t they as much bird as they are lizard?
Maybe when the system finally failed and the dinosaurs got loose, the raptors and the T-rex would just try to convert you instead of eating you.
Convert you into Bac-O-Bits, you mean?
They’d be Barneys!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Run for your lives!!! Man should not play God!!!
Aioua
May 16, 2007, 10:14pm
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But birds of prey are also unclean. So no kosher T-rex-dogs. Now you might have a chance with an Apatosaurus, if you can prove they don’t scavenge carrion…
Taber
May 16, 2007, 10:17pm
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Yes, birds did evolve from dinosaurs, but try explaining that to the creationists.
Well, it’s sort of nice to see them trying to do some actual experiments to try to support their hypotheses, rather than just waiting for real scientists to do the hard work, then chiming in with “you’re all wrong”.
Of course it won’t work, which is also quite interesting.
maybe the rottings of the falwell corpse can add some divine fertilization to this experimental (god)grow-op…
Ludovic:
A dirty-sweet animal.
… with a hubcap diamond star halo!
I’n pretty sure a vat grown Barney would be an abomination
“Really Big Men With Really Big Feet” and “Every Other Lizard” are dynamite band names.
Amp
May 17, 2007, 12:20pm
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I’d rather they just eat me.
tdn
May 17, 2007, 12:53pm
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Ludovic:
A dirty-sweet animal.
I think I dated her once.
Dinosaurs were not lizards, they are reptiles. Are all reptiles unclean?
However, T. Rex are believed to be scavenger/opportunist hunters, so unclean sounds like a safe bet.
