Creation Museum To Display Dino Skeleton It Says Proves Bible

[Capt. Obvious]

The creationist Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky. plans to unveil a new attraction this weekend: a world-class Allosaurus skeleton.

But unlike other museums, where dinosaur skeletons are used to "indoctrinate our kids with belief in evolution," according to the institution, the Creation Museum's skeleton will serve as "a testament to the truths found in God’s Word."

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Dr. Andrew Snelling, a geologist who works for Answers in Genesis, "[said] that the intact skeleton of this allosaur is a testimony to an extremely rapid burial, which is confirmation of the global catastrophe of a Flood a few thousand years ago," according to the museum.

The museum acquired the skeleton, which has been named Ebenezer, from the Elizabeth Streb Peroutka Foundation. Michael Peroutka, one of the board members of the foundation, "says that this fossil is a testimony to the creative power of God and also lends evidence to the truth of a worldwide catastrophic flooding of the earth about 4,500 years ago as described in the Bible," according to the Museum.

Cuckoo

[RKP5637]

1. Delusional thinking laced with propaganda is a powerful tool against facts and truths. So sad. n/t

[sakabatou]

2. *eyeroll*

[pipi_k]

3. Rats!!!

I thought I was going to read a story about how someone found a dinosaur holding the original bible in its paw...

[NuclearDem]

4. Wait, hold on...

Dr. Andrew Snelling, a geologist who works for Answers in Genesis

That's not how you spell "idiot."

[theHandpuppet]

11. I think you might find this of interest

I know I did.

http://www.noanswersingenesis.org.au/realsnelling.htm

[Takket]

5. "Dr. Andrew Snelling, a geologist who works for Answers in Genesis"

I'd like to know where this "doctor" got his degree from, since no acredited program authorized to issue a doctorate in goeolgy would accept that Genesis is the basis of anything found in goelogy. What in the world did he write in his disertation??? To promote the ideals of a 6000 year old Earth would mean ignoring all the basic facts of goelogy. It would be like giving someone a passing grade in courses to become a medical doctor while promoting the idea that leeches should be used to cure a fever.

[sakabatou]

7. Same here

[exboyfil]

8. Here are the particulars

PhD from The University of Sydney, Australia

Research thesis entitled “A geochemical study of the Koongarra uranium deposit, Northern Territory, Australia.”

I am sure U. of Sydney must be proud (not).

https://answersingenesis.org/home/area/bios/a_snelling.asp

[snooper2]

9. here you go, at least he isn't American :)

still a fucking Fundie idiot

Andrew A. Snelling is an Australian geologist and young-Earth creationist. He is also the first, only, and hopefully last, editor of the Answers Research Journal.[1] He is the founder of the Journal of Creation and author of the two-volume Earth's Catastrophic Past — 1100 pages of creationist twaddle.
[edit] Biography

According to his many online biographies at creationist websites, Snelling received a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Applied Geology from the University of New South Wales and a Ph.D. from the University of Sydney, for his thesis A geochemical study of the Koongarra uranium deposit, Northern Territory, Australia.[2] He worked for various mining companies for several years before leaving to pursue his creation "research" in 1983,[3] however he was retained as a consultant by Koongarra uranium project until 1992.[2]

His creation research has centred around dating methods, with his pet hobbyhorse being polonium halos, which according to Answers in Genesis, he has used to demonstrate that most rock layers and fossils were deposited by a global flood 4,300 years ago.[4] He has been repeatedly overlooked for a Nobel prize despite the importance of this discovery.

For his excellent publication record Snelling has became an Associate Professor of Geology at the Institute for Creation Research,[5] a title as meaningful as being a Discordian Pope.

[theHandpuppet]

12. Check this out

http://www.noanswersingenesis.org.au/realsnelling.htm

[Aristus]

6. It never occurred to these bird-brains that 'rapid burial' is a pretty common mechanism of

fossilization. The creature dies and falls into a body of water, in which he is quickly buried in mud, starting the million-years long process of fossilization.

[exboyfil]

10. It is about the only way you are going to get an intact fossil

otherwise everything likes to eat and scatter the remains. After a while the remains also get weathered.

Waste of a perfectly good fossil.

[Sunlei]

13. Earthquake liquefaction also sunk a lot of animals very rapidly. Still happens today.

A great disservice to teach their children such religious bunk. They should go with the "every day for God is a million years" story. Kids would buy that story.

[pscot]

14. Woo

Hoo!