# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/21 "2007-05-17T13:38:22Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Dinosaurs were not lizards, they are reptiles. Are all reptiles unclean? [/QUOTE] Off the top of my head, yep reptiles are all unclean. For starters, they have feet and not hooves. In fact, I can’t immediately recall seeing any dinosaur skeletons or models that included hooves, let alone fully-cloven hooves. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/22 "2007-05-17T13:44:51Z")
[QUOTE=Scuba\_Ben] Off the top of my head, yep reptiles are all unclean. For starters, they have feet and not hooves. In fact, I can’t immediately recall seeing any dinosaur skeletons or models that included hooves, let alone fully-cloven hooves. [/QUOTE] But… they’re [jesus horses](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jesus+Horse)! Horses have hooves! Therefore, they had hooves and are not unclean. See? This logic stuff isn’t that hard. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/23 "2007-05-17T13:45:14Z")
Am I the only one wondering what Dr. Baugh’s doctorate is in, and from what esteemed institution? And is federal grant money involved? ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/24 "2007-05-17T14:21:55Z")
> [@](#): > > 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 . . . Dr. Baugh’s main justification for his giant human footprints is that every human who lived before the biblical flood was a giant. Man, this guy would have a field day in Great Debates. He’s a Bigfootist _and_ a theist. ---
**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 17, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/25 "2007-05-17T14:26:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Man, this guy would have a field day in Great Debates. He’s a Bigfootist and a theist. Just Because he believes in Big Feet, it doesn’t follow that he believes in Big Foot. I mean, let’s not go crazy with ridiculous assumptions here! ---
**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 17, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/26 "2007-05-17T14:33:51Z")
[QUOTE=Lightray] But… they’re [jesus horses](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jesus+Horse)! Horses have hooves! Therefore, they had hooves and are not unclean. See? This logic stuff isn’t that hard. [/QUOTE] But horses are _unclean_. They don’t have cloven hooves and they don’t chew their cud. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/27 "2007-05-17T14:37:18Z")
Here’s a semi-serious question I’ve been wondering about for some time: was the term “Jesus horses” made up as a form of ridicule, or are there actually some creationists who use the term? ---
**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, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/28 "2007-05-17T14:42:45Z")
[QUOTE=Sal Ammoniac] Here’s a semi-serious question I’ve been wondering about for some time: was the term “Jesus horses” made up as a form of ridicule, or are there actually some creationists who use the term? [/QUOTE] I think it was coined on SNL. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/29 "2007-05-17T14:45:21Z")
[QUOTE=Sal Ammoniac] Am I the only one wondering what Dr. Baugh’s doctorate is in, and from what esteemed institution? And is federal grant money involved? [/QUOTE] :: points to article :: > [@Article](#): > > Dr. Baugh (whose doctorate, it should be noted, is in Philosophy and is from a correspondence college in Australia) is a 66-year-old Baptist minister who – miraculously, perhaps – still has a full head of thick, brown hair. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/30 "2007-05-17T14:55:33Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] But horses are _unclean_. They don’t have cloven hooves and they don’t chew their cud. [/QUOTE] I’m kinda hoping that Dr. Baugh’s nickname is “Cud”, actually. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/31 "2007-05-17T15:15:24Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] I think I dated her once. [/QUOTE] Only once? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/32 "2007-05-17T15:15:43Z")
[QUOTE=Jackmannii] “Really Big Men With Really Big Feet” and “Every Other Lizard” are dynamite band names. [/QUOTE] I can see a double billing now: **[The Jesus Lizard](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jesus_Lizard)** opening for **Every Other Lizard** For an encore, **Eddie Izzard** will come out and lead both bands in a cover of **Pinball Wizard**. The headline in Vanity Fair will be priceless. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/33 "2007-05-17T16:07:06Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. Doesn’t anyone remember the movie [_Bug_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072750/)? The scientist put the killer roaches in a pressure chamber to keep them alive and they just got nastier! ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/34 "2007-05-17T16:16:46Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] :: points to article :: [/QUOTE] Oops! Missed that. Fell into the, uh… spatial rift, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/35 "2007-05-17T16:47:54Z")
[QUOTE=Lightray] Horses have hooves! Therefore, they had hooves and are not unclean. [/QUOTE] What kind of feet does a crocoduck have? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/36 "2007-05-17T16:53:07Z")
[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. … [/QUOTE] So they believe in dinosaurs now? ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/37 "2007-05-17T17:03:07Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] What kind of feet does a crocoduck have? [/QUOTE] Batter-fried, hopefully. (and I’d’ve used “duckodile”; it’s more asthetically pleasing) ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/38 "2007-05-17T17:03:31Z")
Heh. The sign makes it look like the apatosaurus is really surprised to see that caveman. As well he might be. ---
**Author:** ![melangell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@melangell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melangell)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/39 "2007-05-17T18:43:43Z")
_Creationists Growing Dinosaurs_ Oooohh…I don’t know how well Creationists are going to fare on this endeavor. 😛 Growing dinosaurs is a multi-step process and they don’t seem to do too well with such tasks. After all, nowhere in the article did it mention that the Creationists were going to attempt to grow brains prior to growing dinosaurs 🆒. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370/40 "2007-05-17T18:50:01Z")
[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] A T-rex would never eat a creationist. I know one ate a lawyer in Jurassic Park, but even a dinosaur with a tiny brain has some taste. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creationists-growing-dinosaurs/404370.md?page=3)