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Randy
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 Posted - 01/15/2003 : 15:39:41
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http://www.theonion.com/onion3901/creationist_museum.html
TULSA, OK—In a major coup for the growing field of creation science, the perfectly preserved remains of a 5,000-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex were delivered Monday to Tulsa's Creationist Museum of Natural History......
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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welshdean
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Posted - 01/15/2003 : 16:32:38 [Permalink]
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"The fact that no human remains were found anywhere in the vicinity of the site of the skeleton serves as proof of the tyrannosaur's ferocity and huge appetite," Gill said.
So it must be true then.
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Slater
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Posted - 01/15/2003 : 17:43:00 [Permalink]
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| T Rex is a great example...just think of the size of the tongue in cheek they had. |
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gezzam
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Posted - 01/16/2003 : 07:37:04 [Permalink]
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Using advanced dating processes from the cutting edge of biblical paleontology
They attack other dating processes, I wonder what makes theirs right??? Oh, I see, it's biblical paleantology as opposed to the the normal one....
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Conversions will be performed every two hours at the museum's baptismal font, located in the Apologetics wing.
welshdean, when you get there, go to the Apologetics wing and all will become clear.
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Legallee Insane
Skeptic Friend
Canada
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Posted - 01/16/2003 : 15:28:38 [Permalink]
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Using advanced dating processes from the cutting edge of biblical paleontology, the Oral Roberts team determined that Methuselah lived during the late Antediluvian period, or "The Age of the Dinosaurs." They said the pristine condition of the find strongly suggests that it perished in the Great Flood, fossilizing quickly and thoroughly due to the tremendous water pressure during the event.
Please note that nowhere in the article does it actually describe how this magical dating process works. They give no reference for the process used to determine the age.
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Gill called the discovery "a powerfully compelling refutation" of secular scientists' long-held assertion that dinosaurs lived on Earth millions of years before humans.
Not really considering this is the only fossilized dinosaur ever found that anyone has even attempted to claim wasn't millions of years old. Again no mention of how their dating process works, just a mention of a year.
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"At most," he added, "tyrannosaurs existed a few days before the first humans, given that the birds and the beasts were created early in the week, and Adam and Eve were made on the sixth day."
The closest possible fitting I have ever heard is that the story of creation is more a metaphor for the time it actually took for the world to form. And since there was no one around to experience it we have no way of knowing what a day was considered by God. It should be noted that I don't actually believe in creationism, what with being an atheist and all. |
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jmcginn
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Posted - 01/16/2003 : 15:38:41 [Permalink]
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The onion is a satyrical online and papaer newspaper. Its articles are all satyrical in nature. A look at their home page quickly identifies their true intentions were to make fun of creationists
http://www.theonion.com/onion3901/index.html
Some of their stuff is down right hilarious including such headlines:
Eating Entire Box Of Donuts Not Originally Part
Of Evening's Plan
Asshole Even Shoots Pool Like An Asshole
Humane Society Worker Secretly Glad To See
Nippy Dachshund Put Down
30th Anniversary Of 1973 Commemorated
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jmcginn
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 01/16/2003 : 15:40:12 [Permalink]
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Welcome to the onion LOL. What's really cool is that in Boulder, CO where I go to school at you can find paper copies of the onion in just about any coffee house or small restaurant. Its good fun for all.
I have to add this one LOL, this is too goo.
http://www.theonion.com/onion3544/jesus_birthday.html |
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Slater
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USA
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Posted - 01/16/2003 : 15:53:42 [Permalink]
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| You have to give our Canadian friends that it is almost impossible to tell the difference between jokes about Creationists and facts about Creationists. If I didn't know the Onion already they would have fooled me too |
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jmcginn
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Posted - 01/16/2003 : 16:01:38 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Slater
You have to give our Canadian friends that it is almost impossible to tell the difference between jokes about Creationists and facts about Creationists. If I didn't know the Onion already they would have fooled me too
Yep I agree, some of the satire is cleverly hidden, maybe just to fool the unitiated or maybe in this case to fool the creationists. I wonder how many xians have read this article only to go do a web search looking for the musuem in Tulsa  |
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Randy
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Lars_H
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Germany
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Posted - 01/17/2003 : 04:26:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Slater
You have to give our Canadian friends that it is almost impossible to tell the difference between jokes about Creationists and facts about Creationists. If I didn't know the Onion already they would have fooled me too
Onion articles seem to get regularly mistaken for the real thing and not just by christian fundamentlists who think that Harry Potter really does promote satanism. The article about the Christian Right lobbying for overturning the laws of thermodynamics was taken at face value by a lot of people,too. An article from the Onion about the US Congrees threatening to leave Washington was recently mistaken for the real thing by the state run chinese media and even appeard in the largest Bejing newspaper. They were very angry about being so shamefully decieved, too.
But you have to admit that exaggertion as tool for humor is very dangerous when you are talking about people who have no actual limits as to what they would believe and do. It is not that creationists would never claim such stuff as in the article, it is more that they would not be so coherent about it.
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