Poor Dinny The Dinosaur

Meet Dinny the dinosaur. You kind of start out feeling bad for him just because his name is so pathetic. Wait. it gets worse for Dinny. According to a story in Wyoming's News Source, the Casper Star Tribune, Dinny is the latest pawn in the battle between religious zealots spouting the words "Intelligent Design," the way they should be taking their Prozac. 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."


My favorite quote in the story comes from Kevin Padian, curator at the University of California Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley, "Dinosaurs lived in the Garden of Eden and Noah's Ark? Give me a break...For them, `The Flintstones' is a documentary."

Tune in next week as I try to learn more about Dinosaur Adventure Land. Its slogan: "Where Dinosaurs and the Bible meet!"