In the O RLY? Dep't: Dinosaurs helped build the pyramids

[dianeduane]

Srsly.

Now all we need to hear is that Hitler was somehow involved and we’ll have the perfect documentary pitch for The History Channel.

(It could have made a good Stargate SG-1 script too, but unfortunately it’s a little late for that. See, the Goa’uld started experimenting with re-evolved saurians as hosts, but then the Ancients…  oh, never mind.)

Tags: dinosaurs, dinoceros, Job, Hitler, pyramids, Stargate+SG-1, Discovery+Channel

Comments

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

I'm more concerned with the fact that "Eve" didn't have a name and was just referred to as "woman".
Besides, everyone knows it was the aliens that helped the Egyptians build the pyramids.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

o.O

[dameruth.livejournal.com]

Word on the History Channel. XD

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

I remember being in a summer camp Egyptology class where we watched Stargate and discussed the possibilities of aliens building the pyramids.

Suddenly that seems sane.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Didn't Indiana Jones do that? Or was it the Da Vinci Code? I never remember which of those is real and which is fiction.

But the spaghetti harvest is ture, I'm certain of that. I saw it on TV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUvNnmFtgI).

[spotweld.livejournal.com]

See, the Goa’uld started experimenting with re-evolved saurians as hosts...

Stargate? I think that was a plot from "Land of the Lost"

[cholma.livejournal.com]

Heh. I seem to recall that Star Trek: Voyager had an episode dealing with evolved dinosaurs.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

"Distant Origin", I believe...the Voth?

[hyalin.livejournal.com]

I vaguely remember a show that had Nazis riding dinosaurs, but the name escapes me.

On a side note, you might enjoy this:
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/lee_08_08/

Cute little short with a little entropy.

[lunalovegoddess.livejournal.com]

Might it have been "Drawn Together"? I remember hearing it mentioned in one episode, so I googled nazis and dinosaurs... and found a DC comic about Tyrannosaurus Reich, a super-villain Nazi dinosaur, as well.

However, don't worry. In case of Nazis riding on dinosaurs, we are prepared:



Our savior will smite the everlovin' shit outta the bad old Nazis. ^_^

[glaurung-quena.livejournal.com]

OMG, where did you find that image, and is the rest of the coloring book available online? It is just so cracked and insane, I must share it.

[jerel.livejournal.com]

Um, wow. That's a special kind of crack right there...

[reticent-lass.livejournal.com]

Please. Nazis? Try the Roman Empire. (http://breklor.livejournal.com/607131.html) Can you imagine anything more History Channel-special worthy than young gladiators on dinoback?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

reminds me when I was getting another degree in FL and the Fundamentalists would bring their kids to Disney's Animal Kingdom and/or Sea World and we were forbidden to mention the dinosaurs even existed

[kvaadk.livejournal.com]

Yep, I think it was in October of 4004 BC ....

The origin of that little fundamentalist fluff was someone (at the moment I forget who and am not going to bother looking it up) a century or two ago adding up the recorded ages of all the major players in the lineage of Jesus. He had some logical construction for guessing the ages that weren't recorded and another for determining at which point in each one's life he begat the next generation.

What he did with all this creative addition is "prove" major theological events followed a 2000-year cycle. The flood Noah rode out came 2000 years after creation, the birth of Jesus came 2000 years after the flood, and the final apocalypse will occur 2000 years after that. (When archeologists and historians determined our calendar is four years off and that Jesus was born in the spring of 4BC, the date of creation was moved back to 4004 BC. As yet no word on the rescheduling of the rapture-tribulation-apocalypse process.)

I know of no responsible pastor or missionary or evangelist or minister with any sort of theological grounding who supports this nonsense. Yet some days it seems like you can't swing a dead cat without hitting an evangelical fundamentalist absolutely convinced this fantasy -- or one like it -- is the cornerstone and bedrock of the Christian faith. Just once I'd like to have a conversation about being a Christian minister that did not involve explaining the difference between belief and mental incontinence.
(No, that was not a typo.)

[cuboid-ursinoid.livejournal.com]

Bishop Usher was the theological mathematician.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Martin Gardener has the details in Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. (Anyone who enjoys watching pseudoscience debunked in a snarky and engaging fashion should check this book out. Gardener is a master, and he's a more tolerant person than James Randi, although I suppose that's a weak recommendation.)

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

And Stephen Jay Gould has a pleasant little essay pointing out that while Ussher's conclusion is daft by modern standards, his reasoning and research was quite reasonably -- and rationally -- done. He couldn't be right because he started with (among other things) the assumption of Biblical inerrancy, but -- as Gould points out -- there's nothing dishonorable about doing work as skillfully as you're able just because later generations will show one of your axioms was not as true as you trusted it to be.

Ussher, by the way, didn't move the date of creation back four years to match the date of Herod's death; he knew about it and that Jesus had to have been born somewhere between 37 and 4 BC.

[glaurung-quena.livejournal.com]

I think it was rather 2000 years in between creation and the First Covenant with Abraham, then 2000 between the First Covenant and the Second Covenant of Christianity.

If you assume the Bible is literally true, it's actually possible to precisely pinpoint the number of years after creation that the flood happened, because the early parts of Genesis provide the exact ages of everybody from Adam to Noah (and I think maybe a bit after that, even) when they had the children whose lineage the Bible is tracing ("Adam was X years old when he begat Seth; he lived another Y years and had other children, then he died. Seth was z years old when he begat so-and-so," etc.). It's in the later parts, especially between the fall of the Israelite kingdoms and the birth of Christ, that the math gets dodgy and you have to start guessing and making stuff up.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

I wonder where that School Director has been getting his education, sounds like the Good ol'USA is exporting something else we don't want.

[davidkevin.livejournal.com]

So is there a market for original Stargate-based novels?