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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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Lweji · 08/02/2015 18:11

To erase things they have to be dinosaurs. Otherwise they will be in the list of things that are NOT dinosaurs.
So, maybe get rid of toadosaurus and frogosaurus. I'll include cockroachus.

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Ememem84 · 08/02/2015 18:13

i've skim read the thread. So we are now saying that dinosaurs don't exist, and that the bones in the museums aren;t real? They were made up?

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ninetynineonehundred · 08/02/2015 18:34

That's right. There were /are no dinosaurs. All of them are a figment of our imagination especially barney.
We live in the matrix which has invented them to control us into biting each other on the face.
Fairies are real though

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fattymcfatfat · 08/02/2015 18:40

yep Grin and so are unicorns and trolls....watch out for those unicorns though, terrible, been breeding with whales and everything!

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fattymcfatfat · 08/02/2015 18:41

oh and butterflies are whores!

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ginmakesitallok · 08/02/2015 19:18

Dear lord they are now asking members via Facebook to protest at dinosaur zoo in Birmingham, complete with mn local advert. They are mad I tell you!

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fattymcfatfat · 08/02/2015 19:35

wow! it gets worse haha! dnt really do fb but I am tempted to join just to see whats what.... problem is how doni know who's a real nutter and who has joined simply because of this thread! ?

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Moln · 08/02/2015 19:48

Trying to stop myself joining. Really shouldn't.

Need to see the level of crazy.


Also where's the dinosaur zoo in Birmingham?

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ginmakesitallok · 08/02/2015 19:48

You really can't tell between the real nutters and the ones who are pretending to be nutters. There are some people who seen to be sane, but they turn out to be nutters too. Apologies for the use of the word nutters, but if anyone really was nuts it's these guys

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ginmakesitallok · 08/02/2015 19:50
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Moln · 08/02/2015 19:55

i'm booking the plane as I type. So have to take DS2 there he loves dinosaurs (probably doomed)

I shall wave at the protesters as I go in

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fattymcfatfat · 08/02/2015 20:00

wow! my dcs would love that!.....

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Jasonandyawegunorts · 08/02/2015 20:10

I'll be the one protesting the loudest.
SATAN'S PETS, SENT FROM BELOW TO TEMPED US AND ALL HUMANITY, BEWARE YE WHO ENTER THIS ATTRACTION, FOR IT IS SATANS BOWELS!!!

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EatShitDerek · 08/02/2015 20:13

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wildsaffy · 08/02/2015 20:40

The Bible, although not claiming to be a book of science, is accurate when it comes to scientific matters.
Speaking as a Fundamentalist Christian in Defense of the Existence of Dinosaurs (rawwwwr)

Often forgotten - or not read - like one of our Catholic posters above - is the account of creation in Genesis, which occurred in 7 "days" - not literal 24 hour periods, but stages, as confirmed by other parts of the Bible.

Interestingly, there are descriptions of fire breathing Leviathans (dragons, anyone? a universal tradition) and what is referred to as a Behemoth. None of which survived the Flood of Noah's Day. (if anyone doubts there was a flood - refer to the earth wide flood traditions in all parts of the globe).

The "Behemoth" has the following attributes according to Job 40:15-24

- It “eats grass like an ox.”

  • It “moves his tail like a cedar.” (In Hebrew, this literally reads, “he lets hang his tail like a cedar.”)
    - Its “bones are like beams of bronze,
    - His ribs like bars of iron.”
    - “He is the first of the ways of God.”
    - “He lies under the lotus trees, in a covert of reeds and marsh.”

    Some bibles and study bibles will translate the word “behemoth” as “elephant” or “hippopotamus.” Others will put a note at the edge or bottom of the page, stating that behemoth was probably an elephant or a hippopotamus. Although an elephant or hippopotamus can eat grass (or lie in a covert of reeds and marsh), neither an elephant or a hippopotamus has a “tail like a cedar” (that is, a tail like a large, tapered tree trunk). In your kid’s dinosaur book you will find lots of animals that have “tails like a cedar.”

    We would expect behemoth to be a large land animal whose bones are like beams of bronze and so forth, so whatever a behemoth is, it is large. A key phrase is “He is the first of the ways of God.” This phrase in the original Hebrew implied that behemoth was the biggest animal created. Although an elephant or a hippopotamus are big, they are less than one-tenth the size of a Brachiosaurus, the largest (complete) dinosaur ever discovered.[1] A Brachiosaurus could therefore easily be described as “the first of the ways of God.”

    Comparing all this information to the description in your kid’s dinosaur book, you may come to the conclusion that “behemoth” is not a normal animal, it is a dinosaur—the brachiosaurus.
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Jasonandyawegunorts · 08/02/2015 20:51

Looks like The Peter Falk line i Quoted has a bases....

The thing is, there is no reason to deny dinosaurs exist just because you back evolution, in fact, one of the early theories about them was that they were the remains of a species which died in the great flood.

Admittedly i'm getting this half remembered information from a character Peter Falk played in the BBC "the lost world" miniseries....

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EatShitDerek · 08/02/2015 21:01

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Lweji · 08/02/2015 22:07

(if anyone doubts there was a flood - refer to the earth wide flood traditions in all parts of the globe).

Of course there have been floods, there are still floods around. And there have been big floods. Big enough to seem that the entire known earth was flooded. Just not a true global flood.

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fattymcfatfat · 08/02/2015 22:13

im loving how some people are still taking this seriously! Grin

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ErrolTheDragon · 08/02/2015 22:27

The Bible, although not claiming to be a book of science, is accurate when it comes to scientific matters.

Except of course for in the parts where it's wildly inaccurate.

If the Bible says there are dragons, I sadly have to admit that merely confirms that it belongs on the fiction shelf but at least it's in good company there.

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LineRunner · 08/02/2015 22:30

I think Eric von Daniken got it right.

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CuttedUpPear · 08/02/2015 23:12
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CuttedUpPear · 08/02/2015 23:14

See? Real!

Dragon Dragon Dragon

ner ner

Who's going to end the thread then?

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ErrolTheDragon · 08/02/2015 23:14

Oh - do we have the Dragon again? Smile

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