Third in Line Fantasies
A Creationist View of Paleontology
The usual quackery spewed out from dark, unknown corners in cyberspace onto my iPhone’s screen. It’s just another day, I reflected, whilst humming a Paul McCartney tune from my distant youth — a time when radio waves and bat-shit-crazy tabloid articles were the closest we ventured to social media. But now we face an endless stream of banal wittery disguised as news, always a mere finger-swipe away.
Yet, here I was again, my eyes scanning that 6.06-inch screen. For mere entertainment, I was looking for a choice piece that would slide past the threshold of ignorance into the realm of true stupidity. Unsurprisingly, I was richly rewarded with an article on the Noah’s Ark theme park in northern Kentucky and their evidence-free claim that 85 pairs of dinosaurs were on the Ark.
My mind drifted to a documentary on the Tiger King and the scene where one of the workers had their arm chewed off by a Tiger while trying to feed it. If a 400-pound tiger can do that, then I shudder to think about feeding a four-ton dinosaur living on a small boat.
“Hey Bill, I think you have dinosaur feeding duty today. They might be a little hungry because I think we missed yesterday’s meal. We took on too many goats during boarding, so take four or five of the fattest ones into the T-Rex stall. I…
