Do you know anyone who believes and teaches their children that humans coexisted with dinosaurs?

[NNN0LHI]

I know some folks who actually believe and teach their children this nonsense as if it were a historical fact. Some of these parents are college educated too.

Does anyone else know someone who believes this?

Don

[MichiganVote]

1. So long as we have a Congress that includes J McCain or McConnel, I will!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

2. Does "coexisted" mean "they didn't have arguments"?

Because, no.

[NNN0LHI]

4. You think humans had disagreements with dinosaurs?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

6. Differences of opinion.

They agreed to disagree.

[seabeyond]

3. we are in fundie land. i asked two boys. no. they have never heard a friend

suggest this. they have had a couple that buy into creationism. most of the kids are religious oriented so they get in arguments more about going to hell, gays, abortion.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Yes. Most of my co-workers at this university teach their children that stuff while complaining

about what is taught here.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Just a note on your phraseology.......

Those people may have "attended college."

They are definitely not "college educated."

:evilgrin:

[riderinthestorm]

8. Yes. My farrier. He homeschooled his kids and one of his reasons was schools teach "devil worship"

While he does a good job with the horses, I refuse to engage him in conversation. I made a mistake and invited him to join us for lunch a decade or more ago and he saw a couple of Karen Armstrong's books on religious tolerance in my book case and he went off on a rant about what trash they were. It was a terrible lunch where I learned just how far right he was and more than I ever cared to know about his "duties" as the Christian leader of his family.

[Maccagirl]

11. Pity his family.

n/t

[LuvNewcastle]

9. My father told me that dinosaurs were

fanciful creatures and never existed. He told me that they found a leg here and a neck bone in Africa and a rib in Europe and put it all together to make a 'dinosaur.' Fortunately, I never believed him, so I just grew up thinking my dad was either an idiot or a liar.;-)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

10. ME

Birds are dinosaurs.

We are co-existing with them right now. :)

[MineralMan]

12. That's the "Fred Flintstone Doctrine." It's part of the Cartoon Canon

of the Southern Baptist church. It is sacred and inviolable. How dare you question this? Haven't you seen the photos of the Flintsones and their pet dino? :rofl:

[Mnemosyne]

13. Noah didn't allow the dinosaurs on the Ark because they would have eaten

all the other animals; at least that is what my daughter's ex tried to tell his 5yo daughter and my grandson.

Thank the universe he is her EX!

Ignorant asshole...

[exboyfil]

14. My boss is a Young Earth Creationist

so yes he must accept the simultaneous existence of dinosaurs and man. The amazing thing is that he is very smart, a college educated engineer, and one of the better engineers with which I have ever worked. So long as we stay away from certain topics, we see eye to eye on a whole bunch of things.

I kidded him about taking my younger daughter to the local Darwin Week lectures at the university. I don't think he was pleased. I know my younger daughter took some criticism when she piped up about creationism/evolution in her Bible study. She was told by her Youth Leader that Darwin was an "old fool". I am tempted to send my daughter to "The Truth Project" which is being offered as a Homeschooling extension for Social Studies at the local Lutheran High School (she is very combative and smart, is in the process of taking 10th grade Biology as a 7th/8th grader, and knows her stuff when it comes to Life Science). I already went through this experience at my church, and my protests about Intelligent Design and the evils of Darwinism was like casting pearls before swine. It would only be a matter of handing my files over to her to see what she can do with the High Schoolers.