Proof That Kentucky Is Insane (As If You Needed Any)
A Links entry from Friday, May 25, 2007Proof That Kentucky Is Insane (As If You Needed Any)
What is this, then? A reproduction of a childhood fantasy in which dinosaurs are friends of inquisitive youngsters? The kind of fantasy that doesn’t care that human beings and these prefossilized thunder-lizards are usually thought to have been separated by millions of years? No, this really is meant to be more like one of those literal dioramas of the traditional natural history museum, an imagining of a real habitat, with plant life and landscape reproduced in meticulous detail.
It’s a Creationism Museum! (which sounds like a great road trip to me.) Also, apparently in Creationist ideology dinosaurs licked oval golf balls.
The Velvet Howler › Blog Archive › Giant Bird-Like Dinosaur Fossil Found in China
[…] Gigantoraptor erlianensis, named after the Erlian basin in Inner Mongolia in which it was excavated, is considered to be more of an “exception to the rule” of gradual size decrease than a contradiction of it. Of note in the article is the theory that it retained minimal amounts of feathers for courtship rituals despite hindering heat dissipation (with an analogy to the ostrich). I wonder if it will be included in the new Creationist museum? […]
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