{"id":23573,"date":"2014-05-06T09:02:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T13:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=23573"},"modified":"2014-05-06T09:02:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T13:02:25","slug":"a-young-earth-creationist-history-of-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/05\/a-young-earth-creationist-history-of-dinosaurs.html","title":{"rendered":"A Young-Earth Creationist History of Dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/05\/A-Creationist-History-of-Dinosaurs.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-23574 alignnone\" width=\"605\" height=\"340\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>This came to my attention via Facebook. It seems to be intended to be taken completely seriously. I wonder whether they accept the stories of giant gold-mining ants in India, too. Note as well that the creator of this was presumably Protestant (most YECs are) and yet they are happy to treat the apocrypha as historical evidence when it suits them (referring to <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/cgi\/r\/rsv\/rsv-idx?type=DIV1&amp;byte=4210813\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Bel and the Dragon<\/a>, which is in the LXX version of the Book of Daniel but not the Hebrew and Aramaic one, and thus is not in Protestant and Jewish Bibles).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This came to my attention via Facebook. It seems to be intended to be taken completely seriously. I wonder whether they accept the stories of giant gold-mining ants in India, too. 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