So their proof is that ancient Chinese dragon depictions look like dinosaurs? Well, no shit Sherlock. Ancient people find a huge dinosaur skull fossil, of course they start making up dragons.
It's worse than that. Read the fine print.
They claim that all Chinese pottery was built wrong. The article says (sic) "If you Photoshop the handles to reverse the head, it looks like a Triceratops instead of a classic Chinese dragon."
Seriously. The evidence they claim is that if you digitally alter the photo, it looks like a dinosaur.
using that logic, if you plant evidence of a crime in someone's home they are immediately guilty and then you can shoot them
This reminds me of somebody saying cyclops mythology comes from African elephant skulls, and I think that's interesting
“If we digitally alter this thing then if you squint really hard and take these lead supplements for a few months then it maybe kinda looks like something else!”
It's hilarious that they come out right and say it.
"If we Photoshop this vase, it looks like a dinosaur."
No one's going to mention humans still live with dinosaurs?
Nah, those are all drones that resemble dinosaurs.
Well my parents don't like it when I call them dinosaurs.
So true, and society back then used wireless devices to communicate, as we neither found copper nor fiber optic cables. And dinosaurs (or humans back then) were time trallelers, as almost no dinosaur or human was found in the same ground layers. See? Evidence, lotsa evidence!
Its quite cold here today. Well this negates global warming so let's get back burning fossil fuels.
Humans and dinosaurs absolutely have coexisted. I just saw some fly past and I even have a dinosaur feeder.
When my daughter was little, I used to tell her that birds are secret dinosaurs.
It’s a great way to help kids understand that the more we learn the more majestic the world gets
It's funny how about twenty years ago creationism was a big deal on the internet, but now the creationists are still doing their thing but the internet doesn't care anymore.
Creationists handily lost that argument, because it's so obviously wrong and deeply unpopular. They've since moved on to issues they think are more exploitable, eg dehumanizing trans folk
Nah, it's just not extreme enough and actually not that unpopular.
A frighteningly large percentage of the US population doesn't "believe" in evolution, creationism is not that weird for them.
But for the rest: creationism is not that weird compared to flat earthers hunting down child sex trafficking pizza joints and Jewish Space Lasers.
I could never understand how believers refused to believe in evolution. Even if you believe in an all-Knowing, all-powerful deity, why would you want to believe they wouldn't use all the tools at their disposal?
Having evolution at your disposal and still manually creating every living thing would be like using a pencil and paper to sum the columns in an Excel spreadsheet.
In other words, if you believe in God and don't believe in evolution, you believe in a dipshit god. Your God probably failed out of deity school.
It's because that would contradict a literal interpretation of the Bible (not all Christians subscribe to a completely literal interpretation of the Bible, but most creationists do).
Well to be honest, Yahweh is a pretty weak god, compared to almost literally any other god we have dreamt up.
They're not able to worm their way back into schools. For now. But people shouldn't get complacent.
Yes, because dinosaurs and dragons shirley can't be from imagination or stories. Please hand me a bible so I can wrap my arms around it.
Don't call me Shirley.
Roger, Roger.
What’s your vector, Victor?
Fun fact: The Catholic Church, of all things, officially says the 'let the earth bring forth' bit of one of the bible's two creation stories is a poetic way to reference evolution.
Ken Ham and his followers think Catholics are heretics.
To be honest, pretty much every sect thinks that of other sects
Ken Ham from the Ark Encounter and Creation "museums". He's a special one, that Ken.
Nobody show this psycho a bloody anime mug or something. God knows what story they would come up with.
That’s it I’m sold gimme god.
I would have cited the Flintstones
It's a living...
I'm not easily finding this piece of art online. Is it some Han dynasty vase with a dragon on it and the Creation museum has gone Full It's a Dinosaur They Lived Among?
Are creationists done pretending dinosaur bones are fake, or has there been a schism
The Dinosaur Bones are Fake Crowd has fallen off in recent years, they were most prominent from the 1860s to the 1980s when the fossil record was less complete and reliable than it is today. They used to cite Charle's Darwin quotes about lacking evidence religiously, quite ironically. They are always looking for some new quotes from evolutionary biologists today like Mark Ridley quoted saying we lacked enough transition fossils in 1981 but since then he's already renounced that argument and brought attention to the many new transition fossils found since then such as tiktaalik.
The problem with Dinosaur Bones are Fake arguments is that the people who make the arguments know nothing of fossils because in the process of learning about fossils they realize they were wrong. Sometimes I see a stray "Carbon Dating only goes back 50,000 years reliable and doesn't work on surface exposed objects" as if radiology would only work on specific carbon isotopes lmao.
They used to cite Charle's Darwin quotes about lacking evidence religiously, quite ironically.
I still have the passage bookmarked in my copy of Origin of Species. The local JWs used to cite it a lot when I mentioned evolution, but they've stopped, unfortunately.
Maybe the finally read the rest of the paragraph? Who knows.
I have a Darwin quote for them:
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae [a family of parasitoid wasps] with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.
"Fossils are a test of faith/temptation by Satan" are still going though.
Wouldn't shock me if it was in the Creation Museum and it's just a fake.
But if humans and dinosaurs lived together, then where are the dinosaurs now? Doesn't this theory imply "things are as they always have been", therefore God?
Depending on which ones you ask, they either were wiped out in the Great Flood or survived, but were recorded as dragons and died out later.
So Noah, chosen by god himself, did a shit job of collecting all the animals?
Don't ask me, I'm not here to make sense of what they say.
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