I made the mistake of buying one of those dinosaur digging kits from a creationist science shop.....

[PrismManchip]

It came with a leaflet hidden inside explaining why evolution didn't happen and is all a bit of a con.
We are considering having it framed...

What on Earth where you doing in a creationist shop?

Oh how funny. So what happened then? Did God leave the dinosaur bones there as a rainy day activity for his children, like a paperchase?

Were they practice runs, perhaps, before he made something a more practical side?

Did his oven break, and he couldn't fit them under the grill?

Don't be silly Colditz, they were clearly the leftovers from a really big Christmas lunch!

It was Christmas Eve and everywhere else was sold out.
This was the only shop that sold them, and he has fossils for sale, huge telescopes etc - it didn't occur to me he was opening boxes and stuffing them full of creationist propaganda.

I had to get one because it was ds's present to his dad...who is an evolutionary biologist

PMSL - the leaflet was actually added? That's hilarious.

It made DH's Christmas!
It basically says the coelocanth proves that evolution doesn't happen.
ARF

LOL

But what's a coelocanth? [dim]

ha ha ha. they are a pain in the arse, be warned, that dust goes everywhere.....

So, because something didn't die when we thought it had, evolution isn't really real.

Sorry, sorry, sorry, I know it is religion and I shouldn't mock religion.

It's a prehistoric fish that is still swimming around today.

So, if I find a sock in my drawer from when I was six, does that somehow mean I never was six? That it's all in my imagination? Or does it mean that indeed, I was six, but everything that happened in between 6 and twenty seven was made up?

Yes hoxton we found that out yesterday

lol colditz, I think that's about the size of it.
Really searing analysis of contemporary evolutionary theory, isn't it?

Merci. You learn something new everyday on MN.

was this in Britain?

Yes! In Edinburgh.

At the end of the pisspoor leaflet was an invitation to go in and talk to the owner. Right now it doesn't seem tempting but could be useful when I have PMT.

impressed with PMT management planning

LOL as a Christian I find this sort of thing funny. I have no problem with evolution, but creationist and science are two words that maybe should not be used together!!!!

All I would say about these kits (DSs have them, all be it with out the silly letter in) is have a hoover at the ready, oh the mess....

Have fun.

I find it funny too
DH finds it a cross between funny and insulting and evil and frustrating and again, evil.

'I had to get one because it was ds's present to his dad...who is an evolutionary biologist'

PMSL

ANother Christian here but really can't grasp the Creationist arguments at all.

Send Dh in to chat to shop owner- and video it for our amusement please?

Oh yeah- I agree about the dust quotient too!