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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 · 07/02/2015 20:39

nickelbarapasaurus, it's odd that you should mention burning women at the stake, I was reading this story yesterday:

Christian councillor objects to Islandmagee ‘witches’ plaque

"Jack McKee, a hardline Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) party, said he remained to be convinced that the women were not guilty of devil worship."

It's not all Kum Ba Yah and food banks you know. Vote for disestablishmentarianism! (don't try to spell it after Wine though, that was a PITA)

fuzzpig · 07/02/2015 20:46

Those dinosaur knickers are amazing

(Adds to list of "sentences I never thought I'd write")

:o

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 07/02/2015 20:56

Vaguely fake-fossil-related factoid: there was a Victorian craze for hanging objects up near a mineral-rich water flow, where they would gradually become coated in (essentially) limescale and look like they'd turned to stone.

You can see the sort of thing here

The Oxford Museum of natural history has a little collection of these, they are pretty cool but you wouldn't mistake them for fossils. They look like a household object that has had an accident with quick-drying cement.
(Anyone for 'fossilised' dinosaur knickers?)

Although, entertainingly, when I just searched for this to remind me WTF the process was called, Answers In Genesis was using it as evidence that fossils don't take thousands of years to form like those evil scientists say.

PatriciaHolm · 07/02/2015 21:14

At the cinema today there was an advert for this -

www.inpublishing.co.uk/news/articles/new_partwork_dinosaurs__friends_8471.aspx

Practically designed specifically to give OP a heart attack....

DishwasherDogs · 07/02/2015 21:19

Nickel, those pants are amazing. I suspect I'd have to pay more than a tenner to have some made to fit my arse though :o

BlessedAndGr8fulNoInLaws4Xmas · 07/02/2015 21:22

I'm quite concerned about the impact of your extreme odd views upon the mental health of your DC OP.

Are you under any type of mental health service?

fattymcfatfat · 07/02/2015 21:33

op is long gone from this thread! mental hospital sectioned him/her I think!

fattymcfatfat · 07/02/2015 21:33

mental health hospital. ..stupid phone, but yeah, either way.

tinklykeys · 07/02/2015 21:34

I know a number of creationists. (All lovely people).

Not one of them used Darwin as an argument as creationists are completely anti evolution..

To me this looks like a mass effort by people who aren't Christians, trying to make normal Christians look stupid. At least I hope so...please tell me no-one genuinely thinks like this?!

It's been a jolly entertaining read though!!!

Whotookallthegoodnames · 07/02/2015 21:54

Christians against Dinosaurs? With all due respect OP, don't include me in that. I am a Christian...and while I sometimes get upset at the Christian or any other religion hunting that often goes on on Mumsnet, I have to say, that it think you sound barmy. Kicking your sister our of your house for giving your children a toy, and then burning that toy? And then actually Disowning your own sister? I've had family members do some worse things than that to me and my children and while I may not trust them as much, or be as close to them, I could not imagine disowning them, because that to me seems so far from what Jesus would do.
I believe in God. I believe in evolution. I believe in dinosaurs.

For goodness sake, people are dying in the world. Children are living in poverty. People are facing persecution. There are a lot more important things Christians should be concerned with than dinosaurs.

PatriciaHolm · 07/02/2015 22:02

Tinklykeys - given that one of the admins has this Facebook homepage -

www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005503039528

I would suggest that guess is quite likely!

EmpressOfJurisfiction · 07/02/2015 22:07

Having just looked, I see what you mean, Patricia!

LesleyKnopeFan · 07/02/2015 22:07

This thread has ruined Toy Story for me. I love Rex but now I'll look at him and just have a teeny doubt that (whispers) he's not real.

Oh the disappointment. Next they'll be saying that the Moomins were fictional. I can't handle all this.

PatriciaHolm · 07/02/2015 22:09

Hands Lesley a cup of tea.

I'm guessing this isn't a good time to bring up the Clangers, no?

LesleyKnopeFan · 07/02/2015 22:13

Oh and where are with dragons? Are they technically not dinosaurs or is there a question mark over them as well? I'm thinking of Puff, he was magic.

Please don't take him away from me as well.

LesleyKnopeFan · 07/02/2015 22:17

Thanks for the tea Patricia. I feel I need something stronger, I have to step away from this thread.

It's like 1985. Father Xmas, the Tooth Fairy AND Narnia, all in the same year, I thought it would never happen again......

Grin
tinklykeys · 07/02/2015 22:18

Darn it, I'm not on Facebook so it won't let me look at that link you posted Patricia. Can anyone summarize for me?

PatriciaHolm · 07/02/2015 22:18

Hands Lesley large gin and strokes brow

LesleyKnopeFan · 07/02/2015 22:19

Oh and I knew about the Clangers, it was like Button Moon, you could see the gloves operating the ship. Obv, the Spoon family were real but the rest of it.......I'm quite sharp, you know.

PatriciaHolm · 07/02/2015 22:20

Better? (or worse...)

I'm getting sick and tired of dinosaurs being forced on our children
PatriciaHolm · 07/02/2015 22:22

A suspicious amount of the Admins appear to have heavy metal leanings. Interesting, no?

tinklykeys · 07/02/2015 22:25

Oh I see... Thanks!
There we go then, mystery solved!

tinklykeys · 07/02/2015 22:27

Haha..definitely incompatible with fundamentalist creationist Christianity..those pesky rockers going around stirring up trouble!

LesleyKnopeFan · 07/02/2015 22:30

A brow stroke always calms me down. Thanks. Grin

On a slightly more serious note, I cannot believe this thread, or indeed, that this campaign exists.

Let's all just be nice to one another and move forward, after all we've got Games of Thrones series 5 to look forward to in April.

Direwolves and Danaerys' dragons anyone?

AnnieLobeseder · 07/02/2015 22:52

Whooo, , oh dear, the tears, they are streaming. Scientists are shills for Big Paleo? Grin Oh no! We've been found out! I usually just get accused of being a shill for Big Pharma with all that pesky vaccination nonsense. But now my shill-dom has been moved up to whole new level and I'm very pleased with myself.

When do the payouts start?

Please let them all stay, HQ, they're the best thing to happen on here for ages!

Dr Annie (Actual Schill Scientist)

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