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John Gleason (“Godless Engineer”) recently did an interview with Matt Powell, the 22-year-old budding hate-preacher who has said the government should execute gay people because the Bible says so, wants women to stop dressing like whores, and thinks all atheists are Coke-drinking video game addicts.
I suppose you can give Powell credit for being willing to have the conversation, but that’s about all the praise he deserves, because the highlight of the clip is a doozy.
At one point, John wants Powell to explain why ancient cultures don’t make references to dinosaurs. If humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, as Creationists believe, wouldn’t we have records of their existence dating back hundreds of years? Doesn’t the fact that everything we know about dinosaurs comes from discoveries made in the 1800s suggest that they lived long before humans came onto the scene?
Powell rejects the premise because he insists those references do exist. In fact, he says, Confederate soldiers in the Civil War fought dinosaurs! And we have a picture of it!
Watch the exchange around the 16:10 mark. And stick around for John’s reactions.



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Much more at http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/...-that-dinosaurs-were-killed-in-the-civil-war/
 
Ah, who can forget the great Tricerotops charge at the battle of Gettysburg! Too bad the species never recovered from the losses.
 
I want a movie about this, but dinosaurs win the war and enslave humans.
 
I can't watch the video at work. Which side was it that the dinosaurs were fighting on?

I'm asking because I think dinosaurs are cool but I don't want things to get socially awkward if I talk about that publically and it turns out that they were pro-slavery.
 
Look, Preacher Powell is not to blame if y'all don't do your research. I had a great prof in college who covered this thoroughly. Space and time being limited here, I'll just cite Stonewall Jackson losing a testicle after being gored by a Manassasaurus at First Bull Run. He was saved when his artillery drove the beast off with grapeshot. He was in a vile temper later when he heard his men refer to him as One-Ball Stonewall. This is covered at length in Vol. 1 of Shelby Foote's Civil War. I could go on about the first ironclad -- it was actually a tame triceratops on a pontoon. The Union boys called her Ole Bess. Again, do your homework or at least google this stuff. It's not a state secret. Jesus.
 
Sarpedon said:
PHOTOSHOP CHALLENGE!
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https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4605
The first of the two photos has a known provenance, and is almost always presented as such on the Internet. It was taken as a publicity shot for the 2000 television series FreakyLinks, and featured Civil War reenactors standing over a prop pterodactyl that was used on the show. The photo was digitally altered to make it look old and beat up.
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I went to a private Christian school when I was twelve and thirteen (my parents weren't mad on religion, but I was getting bullied at the district school so the christian one seemed like the only other neighborhood option with good reviews). Think Jesus Camp. I distinctly remember being told - in history class, mind- with a straight face, mind - that the story of St George and the dragon was:

1. Factually true

2. Proof that a few dinosaurs had survived the Flood.

Nessie, too. Weird connection to British folklore they had going, there.

Not having been raised in fundie circles up until that point, I would have been offended if I weren't so baffled by the whole affair.
 
Politesse said:
I went to a private Christian school when I was twelve and thirteen (my parents weren't mad on religion, but I was getting bullied at the district school so the christian one seemed like the only other neighborhood option with good reviews). Think Jesus Camp. I distinctly remember being told - in history class, mind- with a straight face, mind - that the story of St George and the dragon was:

1. Factually true

2. Proof that a few dinosaurs had survived the Flood.

Nessie, too. Weird connection to British folklore they had going, there.

Not having been raised in fundie circles up until that point, I would have been offended if I weren't so baffled by the whole affair.
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I attended a catholic parochial school for 8 years and heard all manner of tall tale. The factuality of George and his dragon never came up however. But there was a regular barrage of entertaining tales from the catholic crypt.

I remember being told about how a communion wafer left the hand of the priest and floated across the congregation before coming to a hovering stop above the head of a small girl who was too young to make her first holy communion but who's desire and love for jesus was so great.

Lets just say I don't want these folks making rational decisions on my behalf.
 
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