Creationist museum: T-rex had such big teeth so it could open coconuts

[SafeAsMilk]

quote:In the middle of the lobby of the 50,000-square-foot Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., a 20-foot waterfall tumbles. Two life-size figures of children with long black hair and in buckskin clothes play in the stream a few feet from two towering Tyrannosaurus Rex models that can move and roar. The museum, which cost $25 million to build and has a sea of black asphalt parking lots for school buses, has a scale model of Noah's ark that shows how Noah solved the problem of fitting dinosaurs into the three levels of the vessel--he loaded only baby dinosaurs. And on the wooden model, infant dinosaurs cavort with horses, giraffes, hippopotamuses, penguins and bears. There is an elaborate display of the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve, naked but strategically positioned so as not to display breasts or genitals, swim in a river as giant dinosaurs and lizards roam the banks.

Before Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise, museum visitors are told, all of the dinosaurs were peaceable plant-eaters. The evidence is found in Genesis 1:30, where God gives "green herb" to every creature to eat. There were no predators. T-Rex had such big teeth, the museum explains, so it could open coconuts. Only after Adam and Eve sinned and were cast out of paradise did the dinosaurs start to eat flesh. And Adam's sin is a key component of the belief system, for in the eyes of many creationists, in order for Jesus' death to be meaningful it had to atone for Adam's first sin.

The museum has a theater equipped with seats that shake and gadgets that spray mist at the audience as the story of God's six-day creation of the world unfolds on the screen and the sound system rocks the auditorium. There are 30-foot-high walls that represent the cliffs of the Grand Canyon, floors that resemble rocks embedded with fossils, and rooms where a "Christian" paleontologist counters the claims of an "evolutionist" paleontologist. It has the appearance of a real science museum, complete with a planetarium, a gift shop and plaques on the wall with quotes from creationist "scientists" who have the title doctor conspicuously before their names. It has charts, timelines and graphs with facts and figures. It is meant to be interactive, to create, like Universal Studios, a contrived reality with an array of costly animatronic men and women as well as moving dinosaurs.

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It's almost like fundamentalists go out of their way to be as ignorant as possible.

[Rizzo in a box]

yes...coconuts...excellent.

[SAMMY249]

[quote]quote:Originally posted by SafeAsMilk:

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strategically positioned so as not to display breasts or genitals,

Those bastards.

[MolecularMollusc]

I'm really happy that this shit hasn't started happening in Canada.



...Yet.

[boozehound420]

Ya because you need a 4 foot mouth filled with 7 inch daggers to open a fucken coconut.

These people are fucked. I feel sorry for anybody who has to live around this shit.

[inuteroteen]

It is this anti-intellectual aspect of fundamentalism that makes me want to strap a bomb to my chest and waltz into the CBN headquarters.

[Diabolic acid]

They forgot to mention that coconuts used to be 6 times larger, but God shrank them as punishment for Adam's sin..

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[chumpion]

You do realise the rest of the world laughs at the good old USA and their religious nutters, don't you?

Just in case you didn't know.....

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[Peanutbutter Soup]

quote:Originally posted by boozehound420:

Ya because you need a 4 foot mouth filled with 7 inch daggers to open a fucken coconut.

Don't know why, but I LOL'd the crap out of myself when I read this one.

[chumpion]

quote:Originally posted by boozehound420:

Ya because you need a 4 foot mouth filled with 7 inch daggers to open a fucken coconut.

These people are fucked. I feel sorry for anybody who has to live around this shit.

You would have thought their arms would have evolved to be able to grasp the coconuts. Oh thats right - no evolution. So this god fellow thought it would be funny to watch these poor animals mash coconuts with their teeth.

What an arsehole!