Back in February, I found this picture through This Modern World taken from the right-wing online encyclopedia Conservapedia. Conservapedia portrays itself as an alternative to Wikipedia which it contends has a liberal bias. What better way to fight bias than with more bias! It's why firefighters use flamethrowers on burning buildings instead of water.
Anyway, I loved the picture so much I had to email it to some friends along with the complete entry (which I will add in the comment section), the term 'dinosaur'. It's a good thing I did too because the picture is sadly gone now, replaced with a picture of a triceratops skeleton taken from some hideous fact-plagued museum probably stinking of science.
I like to think that Conservapedia was forced to evolve in spite of its desperate clinging to the dark ages that we currently live through, but I know they just don't like looking massively ridiculous.
A little ridiculous, sure.
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The word dinosaur was coined in 1841 by creationist Richard Owen[1], from the Latin for "terrible lizard". Dinosaurs were a group of large lizards that previously lived in abundance on Earth.
Darwinists believe that dinosaurs lived from 230 million until 65 million years ago and that they are all currently extinct (except for birds, which they consider to be descended from dinosaurs). They claim the fossil evidence supports their beliefs.
Christian Creationists believe, based primarily on Biblical evidences, but also drawing on archeological and fossil evidence, that dinosaurs were created on the 6th day of the Creation Week [2], between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago; that they lived in the Garden of Eden in harmony with other animals, eating only plants[3]; that pairs of various dinosaur baramins were taken onto Noah's Ark during the Great Flood and were preserved from drowning[4]; that fossilized dinosaur bones originated during the mass killing of the Flood [5]; and that some descendants of those dinosaurs taken aboard the Ark still roam the earth today [6].
Because the term only came into use in the 19th century, the Bible obviously does not use the word "dinosaur." However, they are mentioned in numerous places throughout the Good Book. For example, the behemoth in Job[7] and the leviathan in Isaiah are almost certainly references to dinosaurs.
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