The USA is one of the most scientifically advanced countries of the world where research centers, all day, make new discoveries. Paradoxically, it is also home to a Christian religion more fundamentalist, which proposes the most irrational of ideas that can be imagined. One is held by the group Answers in Genesis (Answers in Genesis): men and dinosaurs lived together in a not too distant past. Only one of their "evidence", a petroglyph made by Indians centuries ago, which seemed to represent a dinosaur, has been dropped.
More than 60 percent of people do not accept Darwin's ideas about evolution in the United States. There Christian fundamentalism is supported by the government, which frequently refers to God to justify their wars in the world. The religious group Answers in Genesis is known for proposing a literal interpretation of the Bible and say that men and dinosaurs walked together in a period could not be older than 6000 years, the time that the world exists, according to the Bible. They are responsible for administering the "Creation Museum" in Petersburg, Kentucky, a project of more than $ 27 million, where dinosaurs and men are presented in the same environment.
One of the "evidence" of this insane idea petroglyph was made by Indians centuries ago, an ancient cave in top of a rock formation in southern Utah, which would a putative type herbivorous dinosaur Diplodocus. The petroglyph groups had been adopted by creationists as evidence that humans coexisted with dinosaurs. The image can be found in many creationist sites and is part of an exhibition of the Creation Museum.
But this "evidence" has just been disproved by research by Phil Senter, a biology professor at Fayetteville State University and archaeologist Sally J. Cole, who published their work in Palaeontologia Electronica , a newspaper peer-reviewed online. Cole examined the drawing and stated that the rock was actually a composite of two separate pictures, one being a snake or serpent. The "legs" were actually dinosaur natural mineral or mud stains.
Left, the supposed dinosaur. At right, the design decomposed into parts
The "design dinosaur" is thus a form of "Pareidolia", ie psychological phenomenon of perceived meaning in vague or random stimulus, for example, see animals in clouds or the face of a religious figure in a food item.
Why should religious Americans believe that dinosaurs and men lived at the same time, when we know that they are separated in time by a period 60 million years? It is very simple. By interpreting the Bible literally, have to find a way to reconcile the discoveries of dinosaur fossils with more than 70 million years, with their belief that the world and man are no more than 6000 years, in a complex juggling theological. Their weak arguments realize that "the fossils do not come with labels dating" (ignoring the Carbon-14 method); claim that dinosaurs are described in the Bible, which would be the great sea monsters and humans as "Leviathan" alluded to in Job 40 and 41, and that cultures of the past feared dragons, that would be a dinosaur, and that these cultures as distant from each other as the European and Chinese could not be wrong. There is no limit to the imaginations of creationists when it comes to defending their ideas. For believers, Americans, no matter, continue to believe strongly that men and dinosaurs lived side by side a few millennia ago.
Sources:
http://news.discovery.com/dinosaurs/creationism-dinosaur-drawing-cave-110325.html # = mkcpgn rssnws1
http://carm.org/did-men-and-dinosaurs-live-together
http://revistagalileu.globo.com/Revista/Galileu/0,, EDR77424-8489, 00. html
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