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Dinosaur “hoax” exposed
By andybyers
13 August 2007
I'm just making this up. :)

...Or am I?

Sisterkisser, Arkansas — The Reverend Bubba-Jack Cottonwollop of the “Internashunl Creyashinist Moovmint” announced today that his organization has unearthed (this was apparently an intended pun) evidence of a vast conspiracy of scientists to mislead the world.

“Dinosaurs are fakes,” Rev. Cottonwollop declared.  “They was carved by that Isaac Newton and then put into the ground by Alfred Einstein and Carl… Carl… what’s his name, you know, that TV atheist on the commie channel who was always saying ‘billions and billions’?  Kind of looked like Pete Rose if he didn’t eat for a month?  That guy.  They went sneaking around putting fake carved dinosaurs into the ground to be dug up by stupid, wicked people to turn us all from the Lord.”

When asked how he came to know this, Rev. Cottonwollop claimed to have seen actual photographic evidence of scientists burying dinosaur skeletons to be ‘discovered’ later.  When pressed to produce them, he admitted that he did not actually posses these imagines, but was “shown them, in a dream, by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.  And as you know, Jesus wouldn’t lie.  And anyway, even if I did have them, I wouldn’t show them to you because you shouldn’t need proof if you just have faith.  And I have faith.”

Rev. Cottonwollop summed up his statement by scoffing at the idea of evolution as a mechanism to explain the existence of human beings and other animals, hauling out, yet again, the tired old saw of the so-called ‘missing link’.  “You see, the problem with those people is they ain’t never got no proof.  How do they expect anybody to believe that nonsense if they ain’t got no proof?  What, do they think we’re idiots?”

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Written by anythingatall (6 comments posted) 13th August 2007
The worrying thing, as you point out at the start, is this is as likely to be "news" as "not news", depending on the situation. Funny, and a little unsettling.  
 
Ever heard of the saying "faith is belief without proof"?  
 

Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3449 comments posted) 16th August 2007
We can laugh at this but out in a week or so there will be a documentary from Redneck Ridge, Arkansas about a group of people..... 
Nice bit of [slighty scary] nonsense 
 
"Ever heard of the saying "faith is belief without proof"?  
That's not faith, that's psychosis 
Jane 

Written by jimbo (83 comments posted) 19th August 2007
I'm often bemused by statements claiming scientists can explain the workings of the Universe except when it comes to the 'Big Bang' itself ... and of the religious communities' reply that those failings to understand the origin of the Universe indicate that a 'Higher Power' must be at work! To me, both views are ridiculous. Only God Him/Her/It self can 'know' everything ... if He/She/It exists. And that's a matter of personal faith. 
I dare say there will come a time when we do 'know' everything ... and perhaps that will only come when we meet 'God'. It's all faith, in the end. 
Personally, I like science ... it's nuts! I mean ... Superstrings! You couldn't make it up! 
Oh, and your story ... wonderfully nuts too, just the way I like 'em. Another good laugh. 
Cheers. 

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