It’s sad but true—dinosaurs are probably used more than anything else in an attempt to convince children and adults alike that evolution is fact. So much so, that for many, the words “dinosaur” and “evolution” are almost synonymous.
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"So much so, that for many, the words “dinosaur” and “evolution” are almost synonymous."
And Ken Ham is synonymous with babbling creationist jackass. What's your point?
Let's see if it's true.
Last summer the evolutions returned! From June through early September, The Evolution World Tour: The Greatest Show Unearthed, appeared at Vancouver's PNE Forum, and captivated tens of thousands of children and adults alike. The Tour is a sprawling $20 million multi-media show which includes 30 complete evolution skeletons and 11 new never-before seen evolution species, including the amazing 20 ton, 30 metre long Mamenchisaurus from China. The Tour has also received rave reviews in Edmonton, Toronto and Osaka where it was witnessed by over one million enthusiastic viewers. Combined with hands-on displays, multi-media technology, and digital evolution sounds, the exhibit is hailed as one of the top ten exhibits of the '90s.
The notion that evolutions and birds are related dates back to the 1861 discovery of a pigeon-size fossil named Archaeopteryx, which had a bird-like skull, perching feet, and was a powered flyer, with wings of the basic pattern and proportions of the modern avian wing. It also had feathers identical to modern flying birds. Dinosaurary scientists believe Archaeopteryx was a transitional creature--related to evolutions but well along the dinosaurary pathway to modern birds. Other scientists say that the fact it had claws on its wings does not necessarily indicate reptilian ancestry; they cite three birds living today--the South American hoatzin, African touraco, and ostrich--as each having claws on its wings and yet are true birds. Although Archaeopteryx had teeth, considered to be another reptilian feature, some fossil birds had teeth and some did not. That this should be true is not surprising, since this is true of all other classes of vertebrates--fish, amphibians, reptiles and mammals.
So, I'm still wondering about the chickens and nobody seems to want to tell me -
Does a chicken have lips? Did it ever?
Huh? Does a bear shit in the woods? Well, I've never seen it happen
And what the Hell are these "Evolutions" with sounds and skeletons?
Quick. someone needs to write a web app that will translate each instance of the word "dinosaur" into "evolution," and vice versa, on a given webpage. Kind of like Rinkworks' Dialectizer. The results will be hilarious.
EDIT: Like Snopester in Exile's piece. If only it could be done on any page, at will. Ah well. You sir, win today's internet.
@anevilmeme: because they're well-known, charismatic megafauna. And everyone knows what a dinosaur is. So they plug the Flintstones World Hypothesis hard.
Meanwhile, Indricotherium and animals like the Gomphotheres just aren't getting any love at all. :-(
No, the word 'dinosaur' is not synonymous with 'evolution'.
It's synonymous with reactionary pricks who are incapable of accepting new (and 'new' here is relative) evidence.
A bit like you, Mr. Ham.
It's also synonymous with Mick Jagger, but that's a different matter entirely.
the words “dinosaur” and “evolution” are almost synonymous
Only in the minds of the scientifically ignorant, a group very popular with Ken Ham.
"the words “dinosaur” and “evolution” are almost synonymous."
Only in the minds of fundies who don't understand the most basic concepts of science. The rest of us clearly understand that dinosaur, glacier, star, big bang, hydrogen, heat etc. do not mean evolution.
Snopester in Exile for the win, with flipper a close second.
Why is it that whenever I see the words "Ken Ham", my personal mental thesaurus immediately delivers the words "fuckwit", "charlatan", "fraudster" and "asshole"?
So much so, that for many, the words “dinosaur” and “evolution” are almost synonymous
Well, they are both nouns, but that is about it. LOL
On a slightly more derogatory note has anyone seen a picture of this crouton?
He actually looks like he might be a missing link.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/
(He's the one in the "About Ken Ham" section on the left hand side.)
No, sir, you and your cronies (Hovind, Ray Comfort, Answers in Genesis, Rapture Ready) are the dinosaurs, and your day is nearly done.
Only in some backwater education-free zones is there a need for an attempt to convince adults that evolution is fact. The rest of the world already know about evolution when they reach adulthood.
For many, crocoduck is synonymous with creationist.
@ Elky. He sort of looks like a chimpanzee de-evolved into him.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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