Dinosaurs wore polyester leisure suits! This discovery pegs the Cretaceous at about 1970, so we're going to have to readjust the timescale everywhere.
(via Zeno)
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Ken Ham is wrong: the world is only 60 years old
Category: Humor
Posted on: May 30, 2007 2:00 PM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Tlazolteotl | May 30, 2007 2:16 PM
This proves it - the dinosaurs were Dirty F*cking Hippies!
Posted by: Zeno | May 30, 2007 2:24 PM
I must beg to differ, Tlazolteotl. Polyester leisure suits were the very antithesis of hippies. Sure, there was a bit of flare to the pant legs, but they were not bell-bottoms. I had a nice beige Angels Flight outfit (no, really!) that was just too too in junior college. Love beads were not considered compatible accessories. (Gold chains, maybe.)
Posted by: Sean | May 30, 2007 2:33 PM
I find your knowledge of that era's fashion to be disturbing.
Now where are my parachute pants, Miami Vice jacket and pastel t-shirt?
Posted by: bonoboman | May 30, 2007 2:55 PM
Next we'll have the Dino-Cosmetologist's Shop-Union Photos...
I wonder if the Creationaries are jealous of the fact that the Dino's only engaged in Immaculate Conception (as they had no penises...)?!?
Zippers and Buttons must have been a real bitch with those clawed hands...
Thanks for the chuckle today - Bonobo
Posted by: J-Dog | May 30, 2007 2:56 PM
Chess King STILL Rules Dude!
Posted by: Peter McGrath | May 30, 2007 3:06 PM
Nah, it's only 40 years old according to T-rex. There's evidence in them there Glam Rocks.
Posted by: Julie Stahlhut | May 30, 2007 3:46 PM
Hint: If the dinosaur wore a clingy polyester print Huk-A-Poo shirt, a pair of tight Wrangler jeans, striped knee socks, and crepe-soled Bass 100 shoes, it must have been an adolescent female.
Posted by: bernarda | May 30, 2007 4:27 PM
Maybe you folks don't realize it, but it was recently discovered that Ken Ham is from the previously unknown Cretinaceous period of prehistory.
The only other confirmed specimen from this period also came from Australia, Rupert Murdoch. Well, he and his family. Though it seems to be most evident in Australia, there is speculation among researchers that related species are found in America.
Most notably, it is the Bushes, Cheneys, Wolfowitzes, Perles, etc. that attract the most attention.
The Cretinaceous period has just begun to be studied, so many more remnants are expected to be found. The Born-Again and Republican strata seem to be very promising.
Posted by: Zeno | May 30, 2007 4:48 PM
As I mentioned to PZ, my superior research skills (I know how to use Google Images) permitted me to discover the source of the white leisure suit that the cartoonist Photoshopped onto the dinosaur. It's a party costume, which I promptly included as a sidebar in my post!
If you follow the link you'll see that it's been knocked down to $59.99 from its old price of $75.99. Hurry now before costume-party season arrives!
By the way, I claim that uncovering this fact is proof positive that I am as brilliant an investigative reporter as those Powerline morons in Minnesota. (Low bar, I know.)
Posted by: Mosasaurus rex | May 30, 2007 4:49 PM
The Cretinaceous strata are awash in skull-shaped coprolites. No wait, those are SKULLS! My mistake.
Posted by: Scott Hatfield | May 30, 2007 5:14 PM
Beautiful! I inserted this cartoon into a Power Point which exposes students to Ham's 'museum', and this ties in with the episode of PBS's 'Evolution' series that features Ham at his odious worst, indoctrinating the faithful....SH
Posted by: jpf | May 30, 2007 7:41 PM
(Piggybacking on the pointless comedy post for lack of a better venue...)
I found something I'm sure PZ will love:
Captain Jesus and the Pirates of the Resurrection:
They're not pirates... they're Missionary Buccaneers! How long until they open a "Pirate Museum" with an animatronic, swashbuckling Noah battling a Kraken aligned with Satan?
Posted by: JJR | May 30, 2007 7:59 PM
JPF wrote:
>>They're not pirates... they're Missionary Buccaneers! How long until they open a "Pirate Museum" with an animatronic, swashbuckling Noah battling a Kraken aligned with Satan?
They'll have the Pastafarians to answer to on that one...my FSM theology is a little rusty, but I do remember pirates feature quite prominently in their worldview.
Jack Sparrow = Christ-figure? Hmmm...kind of a stretch, but maybe. Hero-God coming back from the Dead to redeem everybody is an old mythic archetype predating Xtianty, though. "But our myth is REAL!" - yeah sure, buddy, whatever.
Posted by: tim gueguen | May 31, 2007 1:22 AM
Of course if one follows the excuse used by Young Earth Creationists that the Universe et al looks like its billions of years old because God created it with the appearance of age then it can reasonably be argued that everything is only a few decades old. After all I personally don't remember even vaguely anything before about 1971, so were I not a rational person I could find the argument that Earth was created circa 1967 very convincing.
Posted by: Bifrost | May 31, 2007 10:23 AM
I had heard the YEC excuse that god created the earth with an appearance of age, and came to the conclusion that his doing so only confirmed that he was a liar. Just another one of the silly arguments that helped me leave the church for sanity sake.
Posted by: mark | May 31, 2007 1:23 PM
The Geico Caveman and Ken Ham in the same post is just too confusing.
Posted by: Steve_C | May 31, 2007 1:31 PM
Ken Ham looks like the missing link from the Moral Orel show.