This site claims to have a photograph of a living Apatosaurus "incorrectly known to fossil-tampering Evolutionists as the Brontosaurus".
The 'photo' is almost at the bottom of the page. Can anyone see anything at all in it? ************************************************************ 01-20-03, 07:08 PM Minnesota Access Gar's link and visit the various links listed on the page, it's quite a clever spoof.
01-20-03, 09:39 PM GarColga Minn! OMG I thought it was for real. Oh man that's it for me. Hook, line and sinker! Got to get some of those Abstinence Shorts!
01-20-03, 10:04 PM Minnesota I kind of like the "Will you be my husband?" thongs.
01-20-03, 10:08 PM sage A Living Dinosaur was Photographed??
Y'know, I thought I had seen Minn's picture in the newspaper recently.
;-D
- sage
01-20-03, 11:19 PM Minnesota There ya go sage, thinking again. You just leave that thought stuff to me and you'll be much better off. Wink
01-21-03, 12:08 AM babthrower I have to admit that when I reached the part:
This Summer (2002), ... In order to further support the theory of man/dinosaur contemporaneity, I and a group of fellow creation scientists mounted an expedition to the jungles of Africa to track down and bring back photographic evidence of a living dinosaur, thus proving that these Behemoths had indeed survived the Flood as scriptural analysis clearly indicates..."
I did a double-take.
I know I've read some exceptionally naive things on Creationist sites, but the idea that 'a group of ... creationist scientists' could just get on a plane, go to 'the jungles of Africa', and find a living brontosaurus seemed to strain even their demonstrated capability for naivity.
Second clue: "...famed British cryptozoologist Ivan Sanderson..."
3rd: "Dr. Helmut VonStoffen, ... expert on overlapping man/dinosaur tracks..."
4th: "...a group of pygmies who had killed and eaten a "dingonek" (as this tribe called the large, long-necked beasts)..." Dingonek?
5th: "...before going off to bury their dead and perform their last blasphemies..."
6th: "...the peer-reviewed journal Creation Ex Nihilo..."
Very cute.
Excuse me. Gotta go now, and read about kangaroos in the middle east.
01-21-03, 12:39 AM Minnesota The sorry fact about these spoofs is that they come sooo close to the truth. That there are people so naive, uneducated, and desperate to prove their beliefs that they actually do go to equally ridiculous extremes--even resorting to lying.
01-21-03, 06:51 AM Elexina I've seen better pictures of Bigfoot.
quote:Originally posted by Minnesota: The sorry fact about these spoofs is that they come sooo close to the truth.
After reading about the doings of an "adjunct professor of apologetics" the other day, I readily believed that some pinhead was calling himself a "theobiologist".
Whitehouse.org is hilarious!
01-21-03, 03:10 PM JohnGalt Just as The Onion's paradoy of Harry Potter driving kids to witchcraft was the starting point for many people to believe that nonsense, (even where people were quoting directly from The Onion's piece!), I suspect this too will eventually be believed by many people! It was quite funny, however! Very well done!
01-22-03, 10:54 PM Clerky07 I especially liked the picture of the Land Rover with the caption beneath it "These are the sort of conditions our Land Rovers had to face during our trek. It was times like this that I longed for the Christian-built highway systems of home."
"Christian-built highway systems"? Oh, I remember those. Those are the ones where you have to stop and pray every 40 miles.
01-22-03, 11:27 PM JohnGalt Want more “dinosaur” photographs by more people trying to disprove evolution? Sure! Who doesn't?
I think this site is serious! In other words, I think the author(s) of this site truly believe what they are saying! I could be wrong, but check it out and see if you get the same impression.
If you want to look at the photographs of what they claim are "dinosaurs" without knowing what they are, don’t read any further. Or if you want to look at them first with an open mind, to see what you can make of them, check them out first, then come back to see the answers.
If you want the answers to what the pictures are of, here they are:
The first picture is not from Loch Ness (although it is often attributed as such.) It is a swimming elephant. (His back, head and trunk are what is seen.) Once you know it is an elephant, you can clearly make it out. Yes, elephants can swim! According to the Discovery Channel, this picture probably came from Sri Lanka.
The second picture is a rare type of beaked whale, with the Latin name of Berardius bairdi.
The third picture is some type of marine animal, such as an otter or seal turned on its left side taking a stroke with it’s front right flipper up in the air ready to come down for the down stroke. You can see its real head just under the water in front of (to the left) its flipper (which is what is up in the air.)
The fourth picture, I don’t know. (But that doesn’t automatically make it a dinosaur!) The possibility of it being a hoax has surfaced (no pun intended.) You can read more about this “sea serpent” and see a video of it here: http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9706/12/fringe/turkey.monster/ Despite the original site’s claim that you can see the “eye” “rolling”, I can’t see it rolling in the CNN site’s video.
The fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth pictures, despite the site’s claims to the contrary is a Basking Shark! But it is dead and rotted, and therein lies the answer. A dead Basking Shark rots from the gills down, giving the appearance of a long-necked Plesiosaur-like animal.
The others are most likely rare fish or rotted animals similar to the rotted Basking Shark.
The Pterodactyl photographs are known fakes used for the promotion of a TV series by the makers of the Blair Witch Project movie.
02-22-03, 02:36 AM Wildflower63 Yeah, and what was that story about the Locness Monster?
03-24-03, 02:37 PM Julieta Martinez I'm sorry, but I didn't see anything but black in that picture.
03-24-03, 03:02 PM Shawn the beaked creature just looks like a oil covered dead duck to me taken at an angle to make it look huge (hence the man standing far off in the background)
i see the elephant
the picture above the new england sea monster looks to be a small humpback whale , but since the picture is so unclear it is hard to tell.
the woman in the picture on the beach just looks like a sand sculpture that is painted.
the amour plated fish is surely weird.
also the so called dinosaur that those men supposedly saw, you would think that since they went there to discover stuff someone would have gotten a better picture (yes I know it is fake) but if it were truly there they would have gotten better pictures. also in that story the icture they got looks to me like a ver close up picture of a foot of a bear or elephant, although the blurry ness makes it look hairy.
03-25-03, 09:00 AM Elexina You can make anything look like something if you take the picture from the right angle, and blur it enough. For instance from the right angle, with enough vaseline on the camera lens, Sandra Bernhart might almost be attractive! ...or maybe that's taking it a bit far.
03-26-03, 11:24 AM Kendor The original photo in question here appears to me to be the front lower leg of an elephant and its dangling trunk on the left. (camera is tilted to the right).
Please don't get me started on evolution vs creation. (the first thing that needs to go is the'vs').
04-01-03, 07:05 AM Yankees15 I was sure I would find a picture of Sen. Strom Thurmond (R. SC) on here!!
04-05-03, 12:50 PM Runic StormCrow load of hoey. a big, black, tampered picture is all they have to show for a dinosaur? and a overlapped footprint?
i hope these guys didn't get paid for this trip..
oh, i especiallly liked that bit where someone was about to shoot the dinosaur... "Put that weapon down! The power of Christ compels you!"
oh yes, because these kind of expeditions usually have Christ chanelled through one of their members...
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