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I'm getting sick and tired of dinosaurs being forced on our children

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CADministry · 06/02/2015 19:48

I'm really concerned about dinosaurs, and I think something needs to be done. The science behind them is pretty flimsy, and I for one do not want my children being taught lies. Did you know that nobody had even heard of dinosaurs before the 1800s, when they were invented by curio-hungry Victorians?

Charles Darwin's later theory of evolution entirely disproved dinosaurs, yet the dinosaur lie was twisted and adapted to try to make it fit. Any proper look at the facts will reveal that dinosaurs simply never existed.

Aside from the educational aspect, dinosaurs are a very bad example for children. At my children's school, several children were left in tears after one of their classmates (who had evidently been exposed to dinosaurs), became bestially-minded and ran around the classroom roaring and pretending to be a dinosaur. Then he bit three children on the face. One poor girl has been left with a severely dented nose and the whole class was left traumatised by this horrible display.

Nothing about dinosaurs is suitable for children, from their total lack of family values through to their non-existence from any serious scientific point of view.

Recently my sister foolishly gave my two youngest some dinosaurs toys for Christmas. After telling her to get out of my house I burnt the dinosaurs. My children were delighted because they know that dinosaurs are evil. I am fortunate that my family has been very supportive, and has disowned my children's former aunt.

Please, do what you can to get dinosaurs taken off the curriculum. Our school has been recently presented with a 214-signature petition, and following that and our recent protest the headmaster has said that he will take it the governors. We are lucky that he is so sympathetic to our cause, but I fear that others may not be.

If you would like to lend your support to our campaign, we have a Facebook group where we spread facts and research about the dinosaur myth. Hope to see you there! :-)

www.facebook.com/groups/nonexistingdinosaur/

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BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 06/02/2015 23:28

(by the way, if anyone's interested, the Oxford Natural History Museum has real fossils on the touch tables. Poor quality ones, like, but still.)

Lweji · 06/02/2015 23:29

Giant sloths

I'm getting sick and tired of dinosaurs being forced on our children
Becles · 06/02/2015 23:34

I see someone has already posted the link to the astounding "A billionaire dinosaur forced me gay".Envy What was missing is the truly excellent review on SBTB. smartbitchestrashybooks.com/reviews/the-billionaire-dinosaur-forced-me-gay-by-hunter-fox

If you liked the review (or heaven forfend the book), you will be pleased to hear that there is a part 2. See review for details.

smartbitchestrashybooks.com/reviews/the-billionaire-dinosaur-forced-me-gay-part-two-by-hunter-fox

it's set in space Grin. An excuse to drink heavily and ponder whether the human race is doomed.

CADm1nistry · 06/02/2015 23:34

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep

I don't like the implication that unless I have a doctorate my views and research are invalidate.

As for the moa, I would say they are probably responsible for a significant (but not huge) percentage of the incorrectly-identified dinosaurs. If you were to rearrange a moa's skeleton, miss out a few bits, add a few more, it would look very similar to certain 'pterosaurs'.

RJnomore · 06/02/2015 23:35

Barney wasn't a paedophile that was erm - wassisname peewee?
This is the best thread ever.

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 06/02/2015 23:39

Well ,you signed yourself as a doctor, and mentioned above that you were a doctor, I thought you might be enthusiatic about sharing your research with us.

Lweji · 06/02/2015 23:43

'pterosaurs'
are not dinosaurs. Particularly if there are ".

But the earlier point was, the extinct giant moa are extinct. Do you believe in them?

Britanniagate · 06/02/2015 23:43

"Nothing about dinosaurs is suitable for children, from their total lack of family values through to their non-existence from any serious scientific point of view."

I know what you mean op. Those drunken, immoral, whoring dinosaurs have no family values at all.

So, you believe in an entirely unproven god but not in dinosaurs, whose bones can be viewed free of charge at the Natural History Museum? (And a jolly good day out it is too).

You're a nutcase.

ErrolTheDragon · 06/02/2015 23:46

I think Dr Carla was some other poster - not one of the CAD variant names anyway.

CADm1nistry · 06/02/2015 23:47

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep No, I did not say I was a doctor. That was somebody else.

Lweji · 06/02/2015 23:47

I don't like the implication that unless I have a doctorate my views and research are invalidate.

invalid
Your views are invalid. Not because you don't have a doctorate, or despite of it.

CADm1nistry · 06/02/2015 23:48

Lweji, I don't automatically assume that because something is extinct it never existed.

Dinosaurs never existed, that is a scientific fact.

CADm1nistry · 06/02/2015 23:48

Lweji, I don't automatically assume that because something is extinct it never existed.

Dinosaurs never existed, that is a scientific fact.

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 06/02/2015 23:48

Yes, my thorough apologies, CADperson, I realise now there are two of you, the namechanging combined with the uncommonness of your position made me miss that.

Lweji · 06/02/2015 23:49

So, why the bone with dinosaurs, then?

GiddyOnZackHunt · 06/02/2015 23:50

Blue Peter had bring and buy sales. They also mentioned dinosaurs. I don't know what to think.
Are Christians for or against Biddy Baxter?

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 06/02/2015 23:50

What about petrified wood? Do we get to keep petrified wood, at least?

EatShitDerek · 06/02/2015 23:52

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ErrolTheDragon · 06/02/2015 23:52

Dinosaurs never existed, that is a scientific fact.

You and a bunch of people on Facebook saying that doesn't make it a 'fact', you know. 'Baseless assertion' is probably closer to the mark.

Camolips · 06/02/2015 23:53

Own up, which one of you set up the 'Friends of Dinosaurs and Christians who are against each other ' group? Made me laugh Grin

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 06/02/2015 23:54

RJ-peeWee Herman (the actor Paul Reuben) wasn't a paedophiles, he was a gay man whose career in kids tv went kaplooie when he was found in a gay cinema. (He wasn't a dinosaur either-just to get back on topic)
Moa were found in what is now New Zealand so how can they be mistaken for "a significant percentage of incorrectly identified dinosaurs"? Pterosaurs-light boned aerodynamic creatures. Moas-ostriches with a glandular problem-them fuckers never flew. Bone structure and size very different.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 06/02/2015 23:54

Just one thing, CAD. You said:

Dinosaurs were invented in 1842, and Darwin came along in 1859. Dinosaurs were later 'retconned' to fit the theory, when really they have no place in it. The biggest lizards are about six feet long, and the biggest birds are about the same size. For no appreciable reason, we're expected to believe that lizards got massive, turned into birds and then shrank again? Applying Occam's Razor shows that it's utter poppycock.

Actually, Occam's Razor, by it's very purpose, doesn't support conspiracy theories. Of which your dinosaur-denying is based, isn' it? A mass conspiracy. The simplest theory....find large bones in the ground = they are old bones of a large, now extinct creature. Or, find large bones in the ground - they are made-up pretend skeletons designed by fake paleontologists, and buried, before luring innocent unknowing archeologists to come along and dig them up. With the cream of the paleontologists faking carbon dating results to perpetuate the "myth".

Occam's Razor says the latter is too complicated, does it not?

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 06/02/2015 23:54

You've never seen a crocodile? Well how do you know they're real then? What if the whole world is conspiring against you and just pretending that a distant relative of the dinosaur is in fact still alive and kicking? That could be a hoax too!

DropYourSword · 06/02/2015 23:54

This thread is solid gold. Some personal highlights include:

No family values
Severely dented nose
Liquified dinosaur
Mumsnet banning God
The talking pig
Serious psychological damage
Barney the dinosaur in Jurassic Park
T-Rex's inability to have a wank
Dr Sockpuppet
Going extinct not just once but twice
Christians vs. Dinosaurs fight night

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 06/02/2015 23:56

Could we have it in Classics, do you think?

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