And when they say "T. Rex" they aint talking about Marc Bolan, :-)
From the article:
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Giant roadside dinosaur attractions are used by a new breed of creationists as
pulpits to spread their version of Earth's origins.
By Ashley Powers, Times Staff Writer
CABAZON, Calif. ? Dinny the roadside dinosaur has found religion.
The 45-foot-high concrete apatosaurus has towered over Interstate 10 near Palm
Springs for nearly three decades as a kitschy prehistoric pit stop for
tourists.
Now he is the star of a renovated attraction that disputes the fact that
dinosaurs died off millions of years before humans first walked the planet.
Dinny's new owners, pointing to the Book of Genesis, contend that most dinosaurs
arrived on Earth the same day as Adam and Eve, some 6,000 years ago, and later
marched two by two onto Noah's Ark. The gift shop at the attraction, called the
Cabazon Dinosaurs, sells toy dinosaurs whose labels warn, "Don't swallow it!
The fossil record does not support evolution."
The Cabazon Dinosaurs join at least half a dozen other roadside attractions
nationwide that use the giant reptiles' popularity in seeking to win converts
to creationism. And more are on the way.
"We're putting evolutionists on notice: We're taking the dinosaurs back," said
Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, a Christian group building a
$25-million creationist museum in Petersburg, Ky., that's already overrun with
model sauropods and velociraptors.
"They're used to teach people that there's no God, and they're used to brainwash
people," he said. "Evolutionists get very upset when we use dinosaurs. That's
their star."
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