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A collection of real-world libertarian, individualist and laissez-faire rants on law, economics, politics, culture and other current events
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Not-So-Jurassic Parks
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Reason Magazine has a brief report of the revival of roadside dinosaur parks.

But of course, "revival" can also have a religious connotation:
[C]reationists have been buying roadside dinosaur parks around the country and turning them into anti-evolution museums. Visit the Cabazon Dinosaurs today, and you can pick up Darwin-bashing literature at the gift shop; at similar attractions you'll see the evidence, such as it is, that dinosaurs lived in the Garden of Eden and were transformed from vegetarians to carnivores by man's original sin.
To which my response is: Who needs creationist dinosaur parks when you have the Grand Canyon? As I blogged previously, the Bush Administration has explicitly approved the sale of creationist propaganda in bookstores affiliated with National Park Service. The creationist drivel "explains" how the Grand Canyon was in fact the result of Noah's Flood.

We should leave the dinosaur parks to the cretinists creationists and worry more about the adulteration of our national landmarks.

(Via Hit & Run.)
Posted by Kip on 26 December 2005


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