Why the Creation Museum Is So Excited About Ebenezer, Its New Dinosaur Skeleton

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Ebenezer, a fossilized skeleton of an Allosaurus, sits at the center of a big new dinosaur exhibit at the Creation Museum. He is, in a way, a coup for the Young Earth Creationists who run the space: a "world class" specimen with a "wow factor" that the museum hopes will underline to its visitors that the dinosaurs roamed the Earth only 4,300 years ago. And they also hope that scientists — the kind who have dated fossils like it to the very un-Biblical number of hundreds of millions of years old — will be inspired to come and study the skeleton, making the Creation Museum the world's most unlikely research institution.

Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, the Creation Museum posits that Ebenezer died in the Great Flood, about 4,300 years ago, based on a couple of things: first, it was found in a layer of sediment that the museum believes was left by Noah's flood. And second, Ebenezer was "rapidly" buried in a way that they believe is also consistent with the flood.

As the Courier-Journal explained, Ebenezer made its way to the Creation Museum through a private donation, after being discovered in northwestern Colorado. The Elizabeth Streb Peroutka Foundation purchased the skeleton and eventually donated it to the museum. Elizabeth Peroutka's son Michael runs the Institute on the Constitution, a conservative group devoted to, among other things, "destroying arguments that are against the knowledge of God." Michael was also the Constitution Party's 2004 presidential candidate. That's him, above left, speaking in front of the skeleton at the exhibition's Friday launch.

http://news.yahoo.com/why-creation-museum-excited-ebeneezer-dinosaur-skeleton-200900558.html

[ready4ONE 5,400]

I have seen Creationist 'Science' textbooks showing drawings of dinosaurs climbing up onto the ark. Pretty much a lunatic concept, but I suppose faith generates a lot of strange ideas.

[Pooky 3,784]

I haven't seen the movie " Noah", but, from the trailers I did see, I really don't think they captured the full size of the Ark in the movie.

Unless the Ark was really a TARDIS. That might work.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Ebenezer, a fossilized skeleton of an Allosaurus, sits at the center of a big new dinosaur exhibit at the Creation Museum. He is, in a way, a coup for the Young Earth Creationists who run the space: a "world class" specimen with a "wow factor" that the museum hopes will underline to its visitors that the dinosaurs roamed the Earth only 4,300 years ago. And they also hope that scientists — the kind who have dated fossils like it to the very un-Biblical number of hundreds of millions of years old — will be inspired to come and study the skeleton, making the Creation Museum the world's most unlikely research institution.

Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, the Creation Museum posits that Ebenezer died in the Great Flood, about 4,300 years ago, based on a couple of things: first, it was found in a layer of sediment that the museum believes was left by Noah's flood. And second, Ebenezer was "rapidly" buried in a way that they believe is also consistent with the flood.

As the Courier-Journal explained, Ebenezer made its way to the Creation Museum through a private donation, after being discovered in northwestern Colorado. The Elizabeth Streb Peroutka Foundation purchased the skeleton and eventually donated it to the museum. Elizabeth Peroutka's son Michael runs the Institute on the Constitution, a conservative group devoted to, among other things, "destroying arguments that are against the knowledge of God." Michael was also the Constitution Party's 2004 presidential candidate. That's him, above left, speaking in front of the skeleton at the exhibition's Friday launch.

http://news.yahoo.com/why-creation-museum-excited-ebeneezer-dinosaur-skeleton-200900558.html

And climate change caused the great flood... No co2 back then... Next

Is it just me or when, they taught in church,when I was a kid, Eve was naked....Did you lose your train of thought. I swear when I was about 8 and they taught Garden of eve stuff i got a little randy

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Dinosaur farts contained a lot of greenhouse gasses causing global warming which caused the flood that knocked the dinosaurs out cold. There's a lesson to be learned here, y'all.

[Pooky 3,784]

Dinosaur farts contained a lot of greenhouse gasses causing global warming which caused the flood that knocked the dinosaurs out cold. There's a lesson to be learned here, y'all.

It's not the dinosaurs' fault ...

[GandD 5,966]

And climate change caused the great flood... No co2 back then... Next

Is it just me or when, they taught in church,when I was a kid, Eve was naked....Did you lose your train of thought. I swear when I was about 8 and they taught Garden of eve stuff i got a little randy

There was a near extinction event in the distant distant past (not the meteor) that involved volcanos burning vast amounts of fossil fuels and releasing co2 into the atmosphere which caused global warming and nearly everything on the planet to die. Keep up on your science.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

There was a near extinction event in the distant distant past (not the meteor) that involved volcanos burning vast amounts of fossil fuels and releasing co2 into the atmosphere which caused global warming and nearly everything on the planet to die. Keep up on your science.

Ahhh was it man made

P.S that is not how you spell volcanoes

I know grammar corrections are kind of a ####### move, but I am just so ####### about grammar I cant help myself. Sorry in advance..

Edited May 24, 2014 by The Nature Boy

[GandD 5,966]

Ahhh was it man made

P.S that is not how you spell volcanoes

I know grammar corrections are kind of a ####### move, but I am just so ####### about grammar I cant help myself. Sorry in advance..

What a terrible reply. Was it man made? Too much co2 in the atmosphere causes the planet to heat up. Regardless of who puts it there. This time we're doing it. Despite whether or not you agree with it. You may not agree water is falling from the sky when it rains but it still does.

[Pooky 3,784]

Too much co2 in the atmosphere causes the planet to heat up. Regardless of who puts it there.

Ban cows!

[GandD 5,966]

Cows are in a good position to become the next dominant species.

[Pooky 3,784]

Cows are in a good position to become the next dominant species.

And they are getting ready.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

What a terrible reply. Was it man made? Too much co2 in the atmosphere causes the planet to heat up. Regardless of who puts it there. This time we're doing it. Despite whether or not you agree with it. You may not agree water is falling from the sky when it rains but it still does.

I never said water does not fall from the sky you are making that up

[Crashed~N2~Me 970]

OP: Stupid "Canopy Theory"...absolutely ridiculous but so many believe it. Humans be stupid sometimes & always will be.

Cow Farts - So I should get back to work on my - Cow Fart catching harness and bottler®..? I'm on the 2nd stage development = use the bottled farts to power the WOOOOORRRRLLLLDDDD!!...but 1st....use 'em as novelty items for backyard parties & flame throwers to torch Islamic militant villages =

Imagine the possibilities!