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pleco
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 Posted - 10/20/2008 : 09:24:15
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| Geddes' exhibition will include a new piece "Jurassic Ark," subtitled, "Noah Saves the Dinosaurs." The "Jurassic Ark" sculpture is the artist's "sardonic response" to the Creation Museum, a 60,000 sq. ft. museum filled with 160 exhibits of biblical history, located in Petersburg, Ky. |
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by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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Edited by - pleco on 10/20/2008 09:28:00
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 10/20/2008 : 10:01:02 [Permalink]
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| pfft, that isnt an acurate representation of the Ark size! I estimate you could fit almost 6 Titanosaurs in there, if you Tetris them a bit. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Simon
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Posted - 10/20/2008 : 10:42:08 [Permalink]
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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chaloobi
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Posted - 10/20/2008 : 11:49:29 [Permalink]
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Why bother flooding the Earth anyway? Why not kill everyone with a virus, then the animals - dinosaurs included - would be fine, you wouldn't have to fit all the world's biodiversity on a single boat, and you'd have lots of dead humans still.
Oh, I know, the ancient nomads that made this story up were ignorant of virus' so they couldn't include them in their myths. Just like they were ignorant of most of the animals on the Earth or that the Earth was a very large ball or the importance of genetic diversity. So they had the silly idea you could fit all the world's life on a single boat, kill everything else in the world, then start all over again from the survivors.
It is no surprise wandering nomads who lived 4 thousand years ago might come up with something so seemingly daft in the hard light of the actual knowledge we have access to today. And who would hold it against them? But what's the Creationist Fundie's excuse for being so daft? |
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Siberia
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Posted - 10/20/2008 : 14:45:49 [Permalink]
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Neat statue, though.  |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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pleco
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Posted - 10/20/2008 : 15:10:25 [Permalink]
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| You notice what the T-rex has in his/her mouth, right? |
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chaloobi
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Posted - 10/20/2008 : 15:41:36 [Permalink]
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| Noah? |
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Simon
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 Posted - 10/21/2008 : 08:31:15 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by chaloobi
Why bother flooding the Earth anyway? Why not kill everyone with a virus, then the animals - dinosaurs included - would be fine, you wouldn't have to fit all the world's biodiversity on a single boat, and you'd have lots of dead humans still.
Oh, I know, the ancient nomads that made this story up were ignorant of virus' so they couldn't include them in their myths. Just like they were ignorant of most of the animals on the Earth or that the Earth was a very large ball or the importance of genetic diversity. So they had the silly idea you could fit all the world's life on a single boat, kill everything else in the world, then start all over again from the survivors.
It is no surprise wandering nomads who lived 4 thousand years ago might come up with something so seemingly daft in the hard light of the actual knowledge we have access to today. And who would hold it against them? But what's the Creationist Fundie's excuse for being so daft?
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Why actually needing something? Wouldn't God just have to say 'by the way; you guys no longer exist'?
In fact, just plucking them out of existence would be much easier. I imagine that after the flood, most plant life would have drowned and such, it would have took months for it to grow back enough to sustain animals, and years to regenerate a ecosystem good enough for the highest level predators...
Also; what about polar bears? How did they survive for 1+ year under the arid/semi tropical temperatures in the region it happened?
And, how did fish survive the massive changes in salinity involved with the flood? Most species are quite stenohaline... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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New Noah's Ark Sculpture
