Dinosaurs and the Flintstones

So I went to the Cabazon Dinosaur place. Did not actually go in the museum as I could not bring myself to give them even the $5. I went in the gift shop, and yes it is a young earth creationist view. Dinos and people lived together. It was sad.

The problem with places like this is they tend to have a lot of stuff that sounds scientific. It sounds plausible to people who have never looked at any other information. Creationists not only sound plausible on the positive aspects of their craziness but they try to discredit evolution for the majority of it (as thats really the only thing they can do, and they do it badly). For example, they bring up Piltdown Man (among others) and by saying it was a hoax (which is known by evolutionists as well) that it somehow validates that scientists lose.

Another one they had pictures of, which I had seen in the past was a "fossilized" boot. Obviously if its a boot, it didn't take millions of years to make. Interestingly, I can't find a whole lot of info about this boot other than from creation websites. One thing I did find was another picture of a "fossilized" hat that was on answersingenesis.org (lame creationist site, a better site that explains a lot of things is Talk Origins ). Oddly the hat was not a fossil but was calcified, which is a process that can happen much quicker.

Thats basically how they work. Lots of lies, many half truths, some truths that they twist that somehow thinks it makes the case (such as Piltdown man). I was going to take pictures, but there wasn't much room and I didn't feel like getting into arguments. 99% of it is just stuff they ripped off of the Answersingenesis.org website.

The part that bothers me is that some polls show that only half of the United States accept evolution and the other half does not (the majority of which think that the Earth is less than 6000 years old). An interesting graph that shows some of this scares me. We are only above Turkey? We are falling a bit behind. And I can only presume that if Palin and McCain get elected, that we will slowly sink below Turkey.

And I'm sorry but if you think the Flintstones is a documentary then you might just be stupid.