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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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ErrolTheDragon · 07/02/2015 00:32

Urghh...just remembered I've got to get up tomorrow.

Play nicely. Smile

McFox · 07/02/2015 00:33

Ohwhatfuckeryisthis, my DH is too, and DS is often called DinoBaby. I am most perturbed to find out that my family is a figment of my imagination (I just thought that DH was at the pub tbh).

I'm getting sick and tired of dinosaurs being forced on our children
Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 07/02/2015 00:34

Not the Rexs though Lweji. Fnarr.
I'm going to primark and ask for dinodenier tights.

lurkingaround · 07/02/2015 00:34

Thanks Honey. What a relief!

Absolutely loving this thread. Best in a longtime.
And does anyone else have an ear worm of 'Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs'?

GothMummy · 07/02/2015 00:43

I was tearful and sad and so mad with DH earlier but this thread has made me convulse with giggles and saved my Friday night. My life is far richer for knowing about dinosaur deniers!

aphrodites · 07/02/2015 00:44

I'm glad I stayed up to read this, 28 pages to go through calls for more wine.

OP, when they tell you to have a drink later and take a nap, perhaps don't...

startwig1982 · 07/02/2015 00:47

I'm a Christian and we love dinosaurs in our house. Bonkers.

SabrinaMulhollandJjones · 07/02/2015 00:52

Did not know dino-denial was a thing until tonight - I bloody love MN Grin

I also kinda love Randy Ruggles apart from his creationism and thinly veiled misogyny and was on those threads with him - they were hilarious, but serious at the same time.

sosix · 07/02/2015 01:11

Ive buried the dinosaurs in the garden, the ones from argos that talk to each other.Sad my2 year old willbe bereft in the morning. But i'll be forgiven by baby jesus? Im just thinking what baby jesus would do if he exsisted

sosix · 07/02/2015 01:14

Should i bury my gecko too?

Notrevealingmyidentity · 07/02/2015 01:16

Nah lizards aren't dinosaurs it's fine.

Fuck me I feel a lot more intelligent after this thread. Although it disturbs me that people like that are allowed to breed.

shadowfax07 · 07/02/2015 01:23

Please tell me this has been nominated for Classics, I've giggled all the way through it! Grin

sosix · 07/02/2015 01:25

Thanks not what bout Georges dino? Should i ban peppa pig too?

I think mass cull off all unreal things should he happen tomorrow, unicorns, dragons, my overdraft, weak pelvic floor, love of wine .....

BabyJesus · 07/02/2015 01:27

I definitely exist. I'm here, aren't I?
Or am I?

PausingFlatly · 07/02/2015 01:29

[gasp] It's you, sosix! You burying the dinosaurs!

A paleontologist will dig that up that next week and believe they've discovered a new species!

Newrule · 07/02/2015 01:31

I'll do some research into this. One never knows. In this day and age, I know better than to believe wholesale everything we are taught to be the norm by the media, schools, etc.

The discovery if dinosaur fossils has been used as evidence of there being a great flood (ref Noah's Ark). Something major like a flood is considered the only reason why the skeletal remains are found in tact.

Drawings in caves and other ancient artefacts show that dinosaurs and man walked the earth at the same time and not so long ago. So it is true that the truth about dinosaurs is clouded by the popular media and education. A lot that is widely believed is simply not true. However, through my research, I have never thought they did not exist.

PausingFlatly · 07/02/2015 01:35

On another note, does anyone else like the cute way dino-deniers talk of "burying" and "digging up" fossils?

Like they're doggie bones in a nice soft bit of the garden?

Rather than stone embedded in other stone, like all the fossils I find?

PausingFlatly · 07/02/2015 01:37

"Drawings in caves and other ancient artefacts show that dinosaurs and man walked the earth at the same time"

Care to share an example?

BoreOfWhabylon · 07/02/2015 01:38

I do hope you are not being serious Newrule

(Clue: the OP of this thread certainly isn't. Neither are most of the Christians Against Dinosaurs)

FuckTheseSixFishInParticular · 07/02/2015 01:39

I have to say, I've heard the 'oil is made of dinosaurs' thing for a while, but only in a jokey kind of way.

Also lol at 'lowly' archaeologists not being let in on the secrets of Big Paleo. It's not like they're two entirely different fields of study or anything. Hmm

EatShitDerek · 07/02/2015 01:42

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NotaDinosaur · 07/02/2015 01:48

You can add me to your lists too.

Have you joined their bonkers Facebook group? hours of entertainment on there, and even better is the counter group set up by one of their piss-taking rejectees - Dinosaurs against Christians who are against Dinosaurs (DACWAAD). Hilarious Grin

BoreOfWhabylon · 07/02/2015 01:50

PausingFlatly here you go

BoreOfWhabylon · 07/02/2015 01:52

Good night all.
Thanks for all the Grin Grin, especially Derek

PausingFlatly · 07/02/2015 02:06

Grin Bore.

From the people who brought you baby Jesus in a piece of toast, clearly.

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