Apparently we have no right to judge Cain for marrying his sister -and back then there was nothing wrong with incest either- and every animal used to be vegetarian until Adam came along. All of them. So I guess the tigers and lions lived on a diet of grass and leaves then. We also learn that "Man and Woman have different roles from the beginning" and well... since women were made from a rib of the very first man... you know what that means, ladies. They also throw in a jibe about the sanctity of marriage. It's nice to know God was thinking about us dirty homosexuals from the very beginning, isn't it. Makes me feel special! Oh and there were a few stegosauruses (stegosauri?) on the Ark of Noah (I hope it was a big ark...)
You know, I always heard that creationists believed that dinosaur fossils were a test from God to see if you believed enough. I guess I was wrong. Or perhaps there are different types of Creationism, just like you have Catholicism and Protestantism you might have Pro- and Anti-dinos. Or perhaps it's just the Tyrannosaur fossils that are a test from God. You know, the ones with their huge carnivorous teeth. Or it might be carbon dating...
Still, if I'm ever in the neighbourhood, I'm sure it makes for a very, very entertaining afternoon.
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Some people do say that the fossil record was created intact by God to test the faithful. I've also really heard that god created the fossil record intact because it was part of his plan that we develop energy sources based on fossil fuels - so in other words creating the fossil record was his way of blessing modern man (and his submissive wife) with automobiles.
Others say that the fossil record was created intact by God to confound the godless (and apparently make some descendants of Ishmael very, very rich - which is kind like a punishment to Abraham's proper descendants cause Abraham went about creating Ishmael to begin with).
My somewhat more reasonable fundamentalist father - who claims some parts of the bible are intended to be taken as literally true and some are intended to be taken as metaphorically true (he knows which parts of course) - always maintained that when God created the Earth in 7 days noone knows how long the metaphorical days were so that the Dinosaurs were on earth, and dying for the fossil record in on one of the the millions of years long days before man came around.
I didn't know that some fundies thought man lived with dinosaurs until I saw Mean Girls. And I still thought it was a joke. But apparently they do. That triceratops with a saddle and saddle blanket is HILARIOUS!
Edited at 2008-07-17 07:38 (UTC)
14 years of Catholic schools and I never knew that!
Then again, 14 years of Catholic schools and they never mentioned creationism except to say "it's rubbish"
Well, just to speak in Abraham's defense here... er... nope. Can't defend him. What? His other kids didn't want the camels?
And man not only lived with dinosaurs (while woman was stuck in the cave making dinner and being "available"), they lived with dinosaurs only 4000 years ago!
Weird we never found drawings of dinos in pyramids... or is that another era?
Do you remember the "controversy" - I guess i shte same museum where they reported that they had video re-enactments of Adam and Eve. But they didn't check the actor playing Adam's references to well. "Adam's" other work was in gay porn!
Oh my god!! Fantastic!! :-) How could I have missed that.
I need more cowbell
Apparently BXVI/a> thinks that a day lasts at least a week, so I'm guessing the Vatican has some secret insight somewhere.
Incidentally I wish the Vatican would stop trying to get trendy wv txt spk.
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After living approximately 5000 years, give or take a century or two. ;-) And changing his name to Mohammed, to boot.
to produce offspring to inherit all the camels
Bloody nomads, obsessed with camels.
since women were made from a rib of the very first man... you know what that means, ladies.
We get to do bugger all? I mean seriously, have you ever seen a spare rib doing the washing up? ;-)
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I still like Tara's photos though!