Dinosaurs? No Such Creature...

Did you know that the Victorians 'invented' Dinosaurs...I didn't either. I expect you thought they were animals living millions of years ago that were wiped out due to some as yet unknown catastrophic event...people dig the bones up sometimes and say 'Oooo, look at the teeth...bigger than the kitchen table'

Bet it never occurred to you for one minute that those clever old Victorians were rushing round the countryside burying those bones just to annoy and confuse people...

But there's a chap in America who believes just that and has begun a campaign to eliminate dinosaur skeletons and the teaching about them from all schools...apparently his sister, unwisely, so it would seem, gave his two children plastic dinosaurs as gifts...he immediately banned the sister from his house and burned the plastic toys...his children cheered him on, because they know that dinosaurs are 'evil'.

He's opened a group on Facebook and the seriously scary part is that he already has over four thousand members...I was very tempted to join to see how they justify these beliefs...

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Load of poppycock if you ask me Vashti. Of course there were dinosaurs.

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Too true Argana, some of us are still alive.

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Wonder whether your man would want to put you on his garden bonfire...lol

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Indeed, poems galore

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Not according to this bloke there weren't...lol

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My thoughts exactly...

[johnwr]

He's frightened that the Bible might not be true, word for word. I know. I had an interesting chat with some Jehovah's Witnesses recently. They got most upset when I told them that Jesus had to be MARRIED for him to become a rabbi and talk in the synagogues. Told them, 'Ask any Jew.' Boy, did they spit feathers!! So dinosaurs ---- No Way. The bible doesn't mention them.

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I can't see why the bible would mention dinosaurs or any other creatures. OK there wasn't a pair of dinosaurs in Noah's Ark but that doesn't mean they werent there.

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angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/...

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Baby dinosaurs I can cope with...big grown-up ones I'd have a problem over...lol

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It's just like those people who think the moon landings were faked or that the world is really flat. Very strange. x

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Bit sad really...feel awful sorry for the children of families like that!

[Bernardbreather]

Did you know that we are closer in time to tyrannasaurus @ 60 million years ago than tyrannasaurus was to stegasoarus @ 150 million?

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You are a mine of useless information Bernard! x

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Well...I have to confess total ignorance when it comes down to dinosaurs...and actually Jurassic Park gave me the willies...lol

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I watched a program that showed human foot prints next to dino foot prints left in the mud 1000's of years ago?

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Your man in America must have been asleep when that was on Offcut...lol

[sassy59]

Well I never vashti! The next you will be telling me we didn't land on the moon! My grandson loves dinosaurs but he is not even three yet so has no idea where or when they lived if ever. I will not tell him anything as one day he will probably be fixated with something else. Hope you are keeping as well as you can. xxx

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Honestly Sassy...you didn't really think men landed on the Moon did you...lol

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xx

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This is what JRR Tolkien wrote about a man and the moon:---

There is an inn, a merry old inn

beneath an old grey hill,

And there they brew a beer so brown

That the Man in the Moon himself came down

One night to drink his fill.

The ostler has a tipsy cat

that plays a five-stringed fiddle;

And up and down he runs his bow,

Now squeaking high, now purring low,

Now sawing in the middle.

The landlord keeps a little dog

that is mighty fond of jokes;

When there's good cheer among the guests,

He cocks an ear at all the jests

And laughs until he chokes.

They also keep a hornéd cow

as proud as any queen;

But music turns her head like ale,

And makes her wave her tufted tail

and dance upon the green.

And O! the rows of silver dishes

and the store of silver spoons!

For Sunday there's a special pair,

And these they polish up with care

on Saturday afternoons.

The Man in the Moon was drinking deep,

and the cat began to wail;

A dish and a spoon on the table danced,

The cow in the garden madly pranced,

and the little dog chased his tail.

The Man in the Moon took another mug,

and then rolled beneath his chair;

And there he dozed and dreamed of ale,

Till in the sky the stars were pale,

and dawn was in the air.

Then the ostler said to his tipsy cat:

'The white horses of the Moon,

They neigh and champ their silver bits;

But their master's been and drowned his wits,

and the Sun'll be rising soon!'

So the cat on his fiddle played hey-diddle-diddle,

a jig that would wake the dead:

He squeaked and sawed and quickened the tune,

While the landlord shook the Man in the Moon:

'It's after three!' he said.

They rolled the Man slowly up the hill

and bundled him into the Moon,

While his horses galloped up in rear,

And the cow came capering like a deer,

and a dish ran up with the spoon.

Now quicker the fiddle went deedle-dum-diddle;

the dog began to roar,

The cow and the horses stood on their heads;

The guests all bounded from their beds

and danced upon the floor.

With a ping and a pong the fiddle-strings broke!

the cow jumped over the Moon,

And the little dog laughed to see such fun,

And the Saturday dish went off at a run

with the silver Sunday spoon.

The round Moon rolled behind the hill

as the Sun raised up her head.

She hardly believed her fiery eyes;

For though it was day, to her surprise

they all went back to bed!

[helingmic]

Vashti, If they only knew that the common tit is a direct descendant of the awesome dinosaurs. This should be obvious, same kind of head, 2 legs; scales have become feathers. The shrieks of the dinosaurs have improved too, thank God!

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Twittering in bushes is so much more acceptable!

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So is the size!

I used to live in a house with windows that looked on the garden and the trees opposite. The birds condused the reflection and very often threw themselves from a great distance to chase this bird that seem to fly to them at great speed. Dear disaster!

But imagine if these were pterodactyls. It's not glass we should have invented, but some sort of reinforced Transparent concrete!

God and evolution have made the place much more acceptable. I wish people would become more accepting to each other too!

[Azure_Sky]

I read recently there are plans afoot to recreate the Woolly Mammoth!