Adam, Eve and T-Rex Makes Three

Now we’re getting Creationism Theme Attractions pushing the co-existence of dinosaurs and homo sapiens. The LA Times reports:

Dinny the roadside dinosaur has found religion.The 45-foot-high concrete apatosaurus has towered over Interstate 10 near Palm Springs for nearly three decades as a kitschy prehistoric pit stop for tourists. Now he is the star of a renovated attraction that disputes the fact that dinosaurs died off millions of years before humans first walked the planet.

Dinny's new owners, pointing to the Book of Genesis, contend that most dinosaurs arrived on Earth the same day as Adam and Eve, some 6,000 years ago, and later marched two by two onto Noah's Ark. The gift shop at the attraction, called the Cabazon Dinosaurs, sells toy dinosaurs whose labels warn, "Don't swallow it! The fossil record does not support evolution."

"We're putting evolutionists on notice: We're taking the dinosaurs back," said K. H., president of Answers in Genesis, a Christian group building a $25-million creationist museum in Petersburg, Ky., that's already overrun with model sauropods and velociraptors."They're used to teach people that there's no God, and they're used to brainwash people," he said. "Evolutionists get very upset when we use dinosaurs. That's their star."

The nation's top paleontologists find the creation theory preposterous and say children are being misled by dinosaur exhibits that take the Jurassic out of "Jurassic Park.”

Well, a couple of points. First of all dinosaurs aren’t used to teach people there’s no God. There’s no conflict between evolution and God, only a perceived conflict between evolution and some people’s interpretation of Genesis.

Second, the fossil record DOES support evolution. I wonder if these people ever consider the impact on children who grow up and realize they’ve been lied to by people they trusted, which I have to believe any slightly intelligent child given anything approaching a balanced education is going to eventually realize.

But maybe that’s the whole point of teaching ID and generally pushing for the acceptance of a Christian curriculum either in private schools or via home schooling, it’s an attempt to eliminate a balanced education and force feed Christian dogma to school children.

Next stop, the Middle Ages!