Creationists win support of FedEx

I feared a cash sum was making its way to the Disco institue when I saw the headline...

Be on the lookout for hominid fossils in a dino track.

Tara,

You got to admit, that was a damm funny commercial!!!!

It was funny. Not my favorite of the night, but good. Over at Aetiology tthread on the topic, this shipper was pointed out, which might go over even better with creationists: http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/paul_kane/pk_volvo_god_sml.jpg

Struck me as a sort of Larson view of things ...

Well, yeah, but I'm not all too worried about that one, given that another Super Bowl ad implied that Hummers are the offspring of matings between dinosaur-like monsters and giant robots.

(Heck, I coulda told 'em that!)

That was great!!!
You have to admit it's not as good without Raquel Welch tho.......

We only saw a leg of one of those "dinosaurs"! How do you even know what it is? That could have just been some giant leg creature running around! Those "humans" also looked mighty neanderthalish to me. They might have been something else.

Also, everything I saw was completely two-dimensional! That seems irreducably complex to me, given that all life is currently three dimensional! How could two-dimensional life just pop out of nowhere if it were not for an Intelligent Designer!

Wow.

This is way easier than I thought. Though I am going to laugh long and hard if Tara hit the nail on the head and that commercial is used as "evidence".

I got the news on my bloggy as well. I didn't like the part where the distraught caveman kicked the small dinosaur like a cat, but it did got avenged upon by a large sauropod who stepped on the poor caveman in the end.

That was hilarious.

Tara Smith posted Entry 1972 on February 6, 2006 01:19 PM. Trackback URL: http://degas.fdisk.net/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1967 So, I watched the SuperBowl last night (mandatory, I think, 'cause the Steelers' Ben Roethlisberger is from my tiny little hometown) and saw , which has humans living amongst T. rexes and pterodactyls. Can't wait to see this posted on Answers in Genesis as more proof that people are increasingly being swayed to the "truth" of their message---and during the biggest television event of the year, no less! They're probably being showered with donations to their Creation museum even as I write.

Creation museum? LOL. What exhibits does it have?

Stephen Elliot,
Just think what tens of millions of dollars might do for real biological research and the creationist (there's gotta be a shorter word) nutters are setting up dinosaurs with saddles in museums devoted to young earth creationism. And there are other museums being planned on top the one Ham has nearly finished.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050522/NEWS01/505220367
http://www.s8int.com/creationmuseum.html

I doubt if AIG will see the humorous side of it but I thought it was very funny.

Didn't you know AD that neanderthals were just modern humans with rickets and other diseases !

Posted by Paul Flocken on February 6, 2006 04:13 PM (e) Stephen Elliot, Just think what tens of millions of dollars might do for real biological research and the creationist (there's gotta be a shorter word) nutters are setting up dinosaurs with saddles in museums devoted to young earth creationism. And there are other museums being planned on top the one Ham has nearly finished. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A... http://www.s8int.com/creationmuseum.html

Fossilised remains of God.

— Stephen Elliott

Posted by AC on February 6, 2006 05:32 PM (e) Stephen Elliott wrote: Fossilised remains of God. God is dead, and here is the body to prove it. You've just blown my mind!

I know you've got to be kidding...

Just wonderful - almost wants me send something by FedEx - but will have to stick to the good old British 'Royal Post Office' - definitely out of the Ark! (now I know that that caveman kicked the Dinosaur, I know why dogs don't like postmen)

That commercial is even funnier if you live it that way every day of your freaking life.

You may have thought that those 2 dinosaurs weren't identifiable but au contraire!!! The pro clearly identified from the creation research museum that the small one was a truthiomimus and the large sauropod was a velocirapture.

Fossilised remains of God.

— AC

God is dead, and here is the body to prove it. You've just blown my mind!

You forget, Tara, that the Neanderthals on the field, and those performing during the half-time show (i.e., the Rolling Stone-agers), are a score for your side. Don't look a gift equine in the mouth.

The recent Guinness commercial (with the Neandertals, dinosaurs, and the little mudskipper) was much better.

Here is something you can wear on your trip to the Creation Museum.

http://www.threadless.com/product/368/Biblical_Disaster

"the Steelers' Ben Roethlisberger is from my tiny little hometown"

Your family is Swiss? Ben's great-grandfather emmigrated from a small town in the Emmental. His win in the Superbowl was front page news here in Switzerland(I realize you mean your hometown, not where your family's roots are, but what the heck).

Hopp Schweiz!

The FedEx spot was okay... a little derivative, perhaps, as it's essentially the same idea as "Bambi meets Godzilla," a classic animated short from the late '60s.

I didn't see all the SB commercials, but my vote goes to Burger King for their Busby Berkeley Whopperettes number---nice pile on.

And there are T. rexes, pterodactyls and Neanderthals living amongst us... at places like the DI, for example. ; ^ )

Did anyone in the UK see Paul Taylor from AIG last night ? The sad thing was that the guy who was on with him runs a christian school, like the Peter Vardy ones, and he seemed to be proposing that this nonsense is taught as science.

For those who doubt that dinosaurs lived with people a few thousand years ago all I can say is "where you there" (I'm being sarcastic by the way !)

Study Suggests Clay Paved the Way for Evolution of Complex Animals Roughly 550 million years ago the first complex animals, such as trilobites, appear in the fossil record. Many scientists have concluded that an increase in the amount of atmospheric oxygen was critical to the relatively sudden evolution of these animals. They knew that photosynthetic organisms had been producing oxygen for hundreds of millions of years, but what might have led to the apparently rapid accumulation of the stuff in the atmosphere was a mystery. Now a team of researchers argues that clay may have played a key role. Geologist Martin Kennedy and his colleagues from the University of California, Riverside realized that clay minerals in marine sediments are responsible for trapping the organic carbon that would otherwise bond with highly reactive oxygen. Today such clay minerals form in soil when organisms such as microbes or fungi interact with tiny bits of weathered rock. The resultant clay then washes down to the sea and settles on the bottom, where the clay's chemical properties actively attract organic carbon and then absorb it, much like kitty litter. The scientists reasoned that this so-called clay mineral factory might have produced the sharp rise in oxygen availability that preceded the flowering of complex life forms. "We predicted we would only find a significant percentage of clay minerals in sediments toward the end of the Precambrian, when complex life arose, while earlier sediments would have less clay content," Kennedy explains. "Because clay minerals make up the bulk of sediment deposited today, we are saying that it should be largely absent in ancient rocks." The scientists turned to one of the world's oldest outcroppings of ancient sedimentary rock, located in Australia. The oldest layers from around 850 million years ago are largely composed of silt, or rock bits that have undergone little chemical reaction. Around 600 million years ago, however, clay makes its appearance in this rock record. Outcroppings in China and Norway confirmed the rough chronology. Other data sources also nearly match. For example, rock records of an isotope of strontium--87Sr--seem to show an increase in so-called chemical weathering, or weathering that is not simply the result of rain or other natural but not life-related processes. "Exactly when the terrestrial surface gets covered by some kind of organism, probably single cell, is not really well understood," Kennedy notes. "That's what our study is addressing." In other words, microbes and possibly even fungi colonized the surface of the earth at this point in time, leading to the beginnings of a soil system that still functions today. One of the byproducts of that soil system was clay, which eroded down to the sea, trapped organic carbon and thus freed oxygen to percolate into the atmosphere. "The resulting six-fold increase in oxygen would have significantly influenced biogeochemical cycling of [oxidation] sensitive elements such as [iron] and [sulfur] and ultimately increased the oxygen concentration of the atmosphere," the team writes in a paper published online today by the journal Science. "The evolutionary innovation and expansion of land biota could permanently increase [chemical] weathering intensity and [clay] formation, establishing a new level of organic carbon burial and oxygen accumulation." --David Biello

"beginnings of a soil system that still functions today."

Come on, there is no evidence that today's soil is functioning the same way as back then. Can anyone document the detailed step-by-step incremental changes from soil then to soil now? If this proposal that somehow prehistoric clay led to the oxygen atmosphere of today is true, how come there is still kitty litter???

I hope you realize that I was only joking.

Re "there is no evidence that today's soil is functioning the same way as back then."

Yeah, but it's still dirt!

Henry

I find it interesting that the top of their Web site says "Upholding the Authority of the Bible from the Very First Verse". Does that mean they believe Adam and Eve were made at the same time, rather than that Eve was made from Adam, since the first version is comes first in the Bible (ch. 1:27 vs. 2:20-22)?

I call for an investigation by the Humane Society. Two animals were physically abused in the making of that spot - in the case of the pterodactyl, almost certainly fatally.

(Funniest durned thing I've seen off the tube in a while - thanks for posting this, Tara.)

Re "in the case of the pterodactyl, almost certainly fatally."

Yeah, it seems to have wiped out the whole species (or is it genus?).

(Well, unless one counts those escapees at the end of Jurassic Park 3... )

Henry