Adam, Eve and T. Rex (and 'missionary lizards).

[rodeodance]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dinosaurs27aug27,0,6894033.story?coll=la-home-local
August 27, 2005

latimes.com : California

Adam, Eve and T. Rex

# Giant roadside dinosaur attractions are used by a new breed of creationists as pulpits to spread their version of Earth's origins.

By Ashley Powers, Times Staff Writer

CABAZON, Calif. — Dinny the roadside dinosaur has found religion.

The 45-foot-high concrete apatosaurus has towered over Interstate 10 near Palm Springs for nearly three decades as a kitschy prehistoric pit stop for tourists.

Now he is the star of a renovated attraction that disputes the fact that dinosaurs died off millions of years before humans first walked the planet.

Dinny's new owners, pointing to the Book of Genesis, contend that most dinosaurs arrived on Earth the same day as Adam and Eve, some 6,000 years ago, and later marched two by two onto Noah's Ark. The gift shop at the attraction, called the Cabazon Dinosaurs, sells toy dinosaurs whose labels warn, "Don't swallow it! The fossil record does not support evolution."

The Cabazon Dinosaurs join at least half a dozen other roadside attractions nationwide that use the giant reptiles' popularity in seeking to win converts to creationism. And more are on the way.

[Spinzonner]

1. I guess Noah had no problem with ballast ...

[flakey_foont]

2. I did not see any explanation

as to the mechanics of how snakes could talk back in the Garden of Eden....oh, well, I suppose if T_Rex were vegetarians, snakes could talk...........Glory!

[mikelewis]

3. Did Noah own a shrink ray?

Or was his Ark the size of Texas? Also, how did he get his hands on a Duck-billed platypus and a Polar Bear in such a short amount of time without some sort of magic carpet?

[Jade Fox]

4. So, the Flinstones was a reality show. Good to know. n/t