# Creationists Growing Dinosaurs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 16, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370 "2007-05-16T20:59:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/1 "2007-05-16T20:59:01Z")
I kid you not. From this site: > **[Creation Evidence Museum, Glen Rose, Texas](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/8196)** > > A small museum that not only refutes the "theory" of evolution but proves that Man and Dinosaur walked the earth at the same time. > [@](#): > > 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**. > Outside, however, the mighty full-size biosphere is nearing completion. It’s enclosed within a huge greenhouse, is the size of two busses parked end-to-end, and looks like it belongs in the engine room of the Starship Enterprise. This biosphere has to be big because, well, the CEM plans to grow big things in it, antediluvian beasts that haven’t been seen since the Cretaceous Period – which, according to Dr. Baugh, was only 3500 years ago. A large American flag hangs over it; patriotism and fundamentalist Christianity, on the same team. > > 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: > **[Museum of Earth History (Closed), Eureka Springs, Arkansas](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/14359)** > > In this Creationist creation, man and dinosaurs survived the Great Flood and lived together. For a while anyway. > [@](#): > > 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.” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/2 "2007-05-16T21:11:39Z")
> [@](#): > > 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.” The dinosaurs, or the kids? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/3 "2007-05-16T21:19:30Z")
Would a T. Rex count as a clean or unclean animal? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/4 "2007-05-16T21:27:04Z")
Unclean, I would guess, along with every other lizard. ---
**Author:** ![guppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@guppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guppy)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/5 "2007-05-16T21:41:21Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Unclean, I would guess, along with every other lizard. [/QUOTE] Aren’t they as much bird as they are lizard? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/6 "2007-05-16T21:51:13Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] I kid you not. From this site: > **[Creation Evidence Museum, Glen Rose, Texas](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/8196)** > > A small museum that not only refutes the "theory" of evolution but proves that Man and Dinosaur walked the earth at the same time. 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: > **[Museum of Earth History (Closed), Eureka Springs, Arkansas](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/14359)** > > In this Creationist creation, man and dinosaurs survived the Great Flood and lived together. For a while anyway. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/7 "2007-05-16T21:54:47Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] 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. [/QUOTE] Convert you into Bac-O-Bits, you mean? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/8 "2007-05-16T21:56:34Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Would a T. Rex count as a clean or unclean animal? [/QUOTE] A dirty-sweet animal. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/9 "2007-05-16T21:56:41Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Would a T. Rex count as a clean or unclean animal? [/QUOTE] clean, big and nice. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/10 "2007-05-16T22:13:43Z")
They’d be Barneys!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Run for your lives!!! Man should _not_ play God!!! ---
**Author:** ![Aioua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@Aioua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aioua)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/11 "2007-05-16T22:14:33Z")
[QUOTE=guppy] Aren’t they as much bird as they are lizard? [/QUOTE] 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… ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/12 "2007-05-16T22:17:04Z")
[QUOTE=guppy] Aren’t they as much bird as they are lizard? [/QUOTE] Yes, birds did evolve from dinosaurs, but try explaining that to the creationists. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/13 "2007-05-17T07:54:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_loblaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@bob\_loblaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_loblaw)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/14 "2007-05-17T08:34:12Z")
maybe the rottings of the falwell corpse can add some divine fertilization to this experimental (god)grow-op… ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/15 "2007-05-17T08:47:52Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] A dirty-sweet animal. [/QUOTE] … with a hubcap diamond star halo! ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/16 "2007-05-17T09:23:11Z")
[QUOTE=Deuteronomy Chapter 14] Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. [/QUOTE] I’n pretty sure a vat grown Barney would be an abomination ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/17 "2007-05-17T12:17:35Z")
“Really Big Men With Really Big Feet” and “Every Other Lizard” are dynamite band names. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/18 "2007-05-17T12:20:22Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] 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. [/QUOTE] I’d rather they just eat me. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/19 "2007-05-17T12:53:57Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] A dirty-sweet animal. [/QUOTE] I think I dated her once. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/20 "2007-05-17T13:04:13Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Unclean, I would guess, along with every other lizard. [/QUOTE] 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370.md?page=2)