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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
1613 Posts |
 Posted - 08/31/2005 : 03:04:48
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Kent's Dinosaur adventure land is now available on the net.
The page looks ambitious at first, but the quality is awful. Just like creationism in general.
Anything to make a buck...
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"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 04:00:04 [Permalink]
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My curse upon your venom'd stang,
That shoots my tortur'd gums alang,
An' thro' my lug gies mony a twang,
Wi' gnawing vengeance,
Tearing my nerves wi' bitter pang,
Like racking engines!
When fevers burn, or argues freezes,
Rheumatics gnaw, or colics squeezes,
Our neibor's sympathy can ease us,
Wi' pitying moan;
But thee-thou hell o' a' diseases-
Aye mocks our groan.
Adown my beard the slavers trickle
I throw the wee stools o'er the mickle,
While round the fire the giglets keckle,
To see me loup,
While, raving mad, I wish a heckle
Were in their doup!
In a' the numerous human dools,
Ill hairsts, daft bargains, cutty stools,
Or worthy frien's rak'd i' the mools, -
Sad sight to see!
The tricks o' knaves, or fash o'fools,
Thou bear'st the gree!
Where'er that place be priests ca' hell,
Where a' the tones o' misery yell,
An' ranked plagues their numbers tell,
In dreadfu' raw,
Thou, Toothache, surely bear'st the bell,
Amang them a'!
O thou grim, mischief-making chiel,
That gars the notes o' discord squeel,
Till daft mankind aft dance a reel
In gore, a shoe-thick,
Gie a' the faes o' Scotland's weal
A townmond's toothache!
Address to a Toothache -- Robert Burns
Isn't it funny how all drawings and cartoons of people and animals, and photos as well on these sites invaribly wear a cloying, little smirk?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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tw101356
Skeptic Friend
USA
333 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 04:15:01 [Permalink]
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The shop sells replica fossils, including a "Petrified Hammer"! I want one of these soooooooo bad, but I could not possibly give them money. Perhaps I can find one on Ebay.
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- TW
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 05:03:39 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by tw101356
The shop sells replica fossils, including a "Petrified Hammer"! I want one of these soooooooo bad, but I could not possibly give them money. Perhaps I can find one on Ebay.
That will be a replica of the London Hammer, currently residing in the single-wide museum of Carl Baugh.
Baugh, who's credentials are fully as doubtful as Hovind's, is most notable for the Glen Rose, dino/human, fossilized foot prints booshwah.
The London Hammer is an old miner's hammer encased in a concretion, and It is claimed *snicker* to have been found in ancient sediments.
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An iron and wooden hammer found by local hikers in a creek bed near London, Texas in 1936, has been promoted by Carl Baugh and other strict creationists as an out-of place artifact. They maintain that the hammer, which was partially embedded in a small rock concretion, originated in a Cretaceous rock formation (or an Ordovician or Silurian one, depending on the account), thus contradicting the standard geologic timetable. However, the hammer was not documented in situ, and has not been reliably associated with any specific host formation. It is more likely an antique than an ancient artifact, probably dropped or discarded by a local miner or craftsman within the last few hundred years, after which dissolved limy sediment hardened into a nodule around it. Although a brief rebuttal to Baugh's hammer claims was made by Cole (1985), Baugh and a few other creationists continue to promote it. This review provides further analysis of the hammer and creationist claims about it.
The link pretty much tells the story and nicely highlights the unabashed dishonesty of Baugh, Hovind, et al.
Rather than being noteworthy as an out-of-place artifact, the London Hammer points out how fast certain concretions can form.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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