Tracks of a previously unknown swimming dinosaur have been found along the shores of an ancient sea in Wyoming, scientists announced today.
The tracks reveal an event 165 million years ago when a six-foot-tall, two-legged dinosaur waded into the inland sea and gradually lost touch with the ground.
So right after it got done walking on water, it went and turned loaves into fishes, water into wine, amoeba into hominids, laid down the Dinatitudes and was chased out of Sundance by the reactionary Tyrannosaurs, where it was captured and buried up to it neck in silt until it drowned in the tide...
Or maybe these guys have a better explanation... or not.
posted by Jo Fish on 10.17.05 at 10:18 PM
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I'll just bet that swinmming dinosaur has bone spurs on its spine from the saddle that Adam threw on it before riding it.
Oh wait. Wyoming. Adam was in Eden - that's around Iraq, ain't it?
My brain hurts......
posted by: Lurch on 10.18.05 at 10:14 AM [permalink]
If the tracks were made as described, I do wonder why the tracks weren't destroyed by wave action long before they became fossilized. I bet the surviving tracks were all made above the water line or that sea dried up real quick.
Oh, yeah, talk about gradually losing touch...
posted by: DADvocate on 10.18.05 at 01:15 PM [permalink]
The Christo-phobes strike again. Your ignorance of and hatred of Christianity is so, so sad.
posted by: bean on 10.18.05 at 02:01 PM [permalink]
That is so cool. Seems like a shallow area shielded by the wind would hold the tracks long enough for it to dry out.
Can you imagine doing a little body surfing and looking over into the eyes of, not a seal, but some 6 foot tall bird/dinosaur?
No kidding? God created dinosaurs on day 6? Heck, I seemed to have missed that...
I take it the two above post both have taken many science courses. Well, I have my degree in biology with plenty of geology to round it out. There are many cases of fossilized streambeds. All it requires is for RAPID BURIAL by other sediments. In fact, rapid burial is the prime requirement for fossilization. And no, not the myth of Noah's flood, but simply localized events. Sorry, but science does not validate Genesis simply because Genesis was written down by ancient peoples in their attempt to understand our world. Creationists aren't really interested in trying to understand our world, they just want to be part of something that sets them above everyone else AND live forever. They have 'faith.' But according to Twain, "Faith is continuing to believe in things that you know aren't true." They NEVER run their belief system through a bullshit detector. RE: "Kent Hovind, the minister who opened the park in 2001, said his aim was to spread the message of creationism through a fixture of mainstream America — the theme park — instead of pleading its case at academic conferences and in courtrooms." FIRST, science should NEVER be decided in a courtroom. Second, I attended one of Hovinds dog and pony shows last month. He 'debated' two evolutionists that were asked on short notice to participate (one had only one days notice). Both were told they would not be allowed to use computers or graphics for participation. Guess what? Yep, Hovind brought a computer with projector and was allowed to use it! Further, typical of these debates, evolution was attacked, evolution was defended. I think it's high time that one of these debates stick to creationists presenting only their evidence for creation (there is none, so it would be much fun) and the evolutionists get to attack creationists arguments. No evolution allowed, let creationism stand or fall only on a procreation argument. Oh, and this must take place with only degreed scientists from the RELEVENT sciences. Biologists arguing biology, geologists arguing geology, astronomers arguing only astronomy and so on.
Thanks, Ray, for the explanation. Rapid burial, that's what I want when I die.
posted by: DADvocate on 10.18.05 at 11:08 PM [permalink]
Thanks, for the commentary, Ray. One of the major problems I have about "The Bible" as a historically accurate document is the fact that it seems that the oldest alphabetical forms of writing seem to be about 4,000 years old.
Now, bean, please take note: this here math stuff is real hard for me, but if the world is 6,000 years old and we only had writing for 4,000 years then that must mean we had 2,000 years of oral tradition.
Anyone who's ever played the "telephone game" at a party knows how accurate that oral tradition thing is.
Let's be charitable, and say that for two thousand years some illiterate Middle Eastern shepherds spent their nights around the campfire telling the story of how it all came to be.
I mean, hell - they didn't even have Y_hW_h until they'd organized the tribes, settled down, gone through agriculture, built some cities, got a king, built an army and started in fighting and conquering their neighbors.
So, I kind of think the Old Testatment is like what people say that carpenter fellow said the New Testament was: a collection of parables. Just some lessons to guide you through life.
