[Fundies have been discussing an article about an ancient road to Stonehenge having been found, along with ruts in the road. Another fundie has suggested that they were made by dinosaurs.]
That may not be so far fetched as you think Steve based on what the Lord said in James 3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
And I fully believe this was the Horse Power or I mean Dino Power that accomplished those the movements of huge stones.
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I believe I saw that movie back in '73. "Dino Cowboy" or something like that.
Of course, going to Stonehenge.co.uk gives the rather boring, but undoutedly more correct answer that people, using rollers, sledges, block and tackle and BRAINS, built it.
After all, by the time people, using their brains, built the monument, dinos were long dead and already converting into oil.
Of course you fully believe it, you've got a head start on most people when it comes believing strange things.
You have a natural advantage over us plain folk when it comes to believing any old tosh, since you needn't consider sanity or reason or the accumulation of knowledge. It's easy when you don't know how.
@Sasha
Well, none, of course. Which obviously proves that dinosaurs were still alive. After all, if they'd been dead, they would have been too big to move, and the fossils would still be there. They had to be alive to be able to walk away.
@Don't shoot the messenger
Thanks a lot. Now my coworkers are looking at me strangely.
If the Bible says James said every beast had been tamed, it must have been true. So how did wolves, Tasmanian devils, Komodo dragons, piranhas etc. get untamed?
Leave it to RR to get to the truth of the matter, using logic and common sense. Of course dinosaurs helped build Stonehenge! The people of RR are level headed, smart individuals. They wouldn't just pull things out of their ass and blurt out insane nonsense. What do those scientists and learned individuals know? They got nothing on the raptureians.
Dino Power! Genius. Pure genius.
i don't know why stonehenge.co.uk seems to assume the stones were moved solely by human power; perhaps there were no horses or cattle in the British isles during the neolithic to be used as draught animals?
anyway, it's easy to underestimate what stone-age people could do --- the "stone age" covers a huge span of time, and just because there were no metals being used doesn't mean there were no tools or technology. humans throughout that era made pottery, fired that pottery (meaning they built pottery kilns), lived in houses of various methods of construction, herded (and bred) farm animals, etcetera. don't think "caveman" so much as "extreme amish".
Funny how there are no historical records of dinosaurs being used as beasts of burden, then. Just oxen, horses, donkeys, etc.
Fundie: Obviously humans and dinosaurs co-existed, because that's the only way that people could have moved heavy artifacts like the standing stones of Stonehenge.
Non-fundie: then why aren't human remains found mixed with dinosaur remains? If humans used domesticated dinosaurs for food and labor, why aren't dinosaur remains found in middens?
Fundie [glassy-eyed stare] because dinosaurs were large and dangerous, so humans did not live close to them.
Their thought processes are so compartmentalized that they don't have a coherent theory of creation--all they have are an incoherent mass of talking points that directly contradict each other, but get quickly trotted out one at a time and then get put away again in response to any point anyone who believes in evolution brings up. There's more logical thought or scholarship in an episode of the Flintstones.
Ok, I'm trying to work out the logic at work here. According to YEC, Stonehenge, as well as pretty much any man made structure, would be built after the flood, since the flood was violent enough to carve the Grand Canyon in a few minutes and no structure could survive. That means that at some point after the entire human population consisted of a single family emerging from the Ark in Turkey (usually dated about 2000 years BC or so), there was a sizeable human population in the British Isles, large enough to have tamed dinosaurs....... MY BRAIN IS DYING!!!!!
@#1589951
I was aware of that. The point is not whether some of any of the animals I mentioned has been tamed, but rather this: 1) James's verse said that "every kind of beast [...] hath been tamed" and, if you are to read that verse literally, as waiting1 does, there could be no such thing then as a wild animal; 2) there are wild animals today, including wolves; 3) therefore if all animals were tame then, as waiting1 argues, some must have become untamed. Capisce?
@Doubting Thomas:
Ouch, I’m getting sympathy neck pains just by looking at that picture!
the Lord said in James 3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
How can someone write that with a straight face? And please, try to read that verse in context, it does not say what you think it means.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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