I won't lie, I breathed a sigh of relief when Roland Bird's story didn't end with "so desperate for approval he fakes footprints and there's a scandal!". Good on him for his big and legit find!
"Where you have seen only one set of fossil footprints, my child, is when I carried you." - Raptor Jesus
"the resulting work was so poor, so misleading, that it prompted an 11,000 word response" followed by Hbomberguy's voice was chef's kiss
Upon rewatching and hearing the recounting of Baugh's cagey response about the skeleton, saying "the artifact might be intrusive", let me translate exactly what he means: Possession of the skeleton almost certainly is in violation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. He's removed it from display, and put it "in security" ie in an undisclosed storage location, because he doesn't want the government to come take it away from him.
5:00 "The human footprints were cartoonish, resembling the artist's guess at what a human footprint would look like. These dinosaur tracks were a different story. They were so good that the creator must have been working from a reference." I've already figured out the twist. Both carvings were done by a dinosaur. He had to guess what a human's foot looks like, but he could just use his own foot for reference for the dinosaur tracks.
Raptors using their claws to farm invasive sugar cane and bamboo is the deep lore I needed for this 5000 year old good Christian Minecraft server.
I love the logic of “we used to be big so that means we didn’t evolve” as if us shrinking couldn’t also be a form of evolution.
I love the hyperbaric chamber idea so much as a counterproof to evolution... like "I'm gonna put a bunch of organisms in a new environment and observe the changes that happen over time and that'll show those crazy scientists that nothing ever changes"
I love the parts that go "this book/film was generally poorly received, receiving much criticism for its distortion of facts and pseudoscientific arguments. It is commonly used for homeschooling in America."
If you consider the mantrack carvings as art, this is the most winding and complicated application of Death of the Author in history.
when i was young, my parents took my sister and i to the creation museum under the justification of its novelty. it was a tourist stop on the way in a larger road trip. none of us believe (or, indeed, believed then) in any of the creationism ideas, and so my sister and i were told very seriously to not make a scene in the museum, not to laugh or make fun to avoid offending the curators or anyone visiting taking the museum seriously. this was a difficult task for two preteens, but my sister and i managed, which made it all the funnier when my dad stumbled on a sign proclaiming that the reason there are similar species across continents is because during the flood these animals clung to driftwood to stay afloat, and the currents of the flood carried them to their new home, and my dad yelled, "what the fuck?"
The "both man and dinosaur, walked on the ancient shore" made me think it was a retrospective on how where people stood on the river today, millions of years ago dinosaurs walked, and how incredible it was that we shared those spaces across time. But nope.
I used to be an ultra Orthodox Jew. Black hat, fringes, the whole deal. We believed the first seven days couldn’t possibly be literal 24 hour days, because the 24 hour day is based on the movement of the sun and moon, and THE SUN AND MOON WEREN’T CREATED UNTIL DAY 4! Even the most literal and simplistic reading of the creation story can’t be talking about literal days, unless you read it without remembering anything you just read.
"he would hold the chisel, she would swing the hammer" what a great couple bonding activity
Ah, the textbook Dan Olson experience 20 minutes in : "We humans are oh so quirky, what whimsy !" 25 minutes in : "Oh no it's the garbage people"
From this I learned one lesson to overcome misinformation: Every successful peer-review of a study should come with a free coupon for a songwriter to make a catchy tune about it
Me for the first 20 minutes: "Gosh, what a wholesome story about the discovery of some sauropod tracks. My lifelong dino-nerd side is beaming." Me at the same time as Dan: "Wait...what was that about Genesis?"
the story of the poop that looks like a scared alligator is inspirational tho. imagine if it was your own poop
Finally, Dan Olson talking about feet for a feature length video
@jeohist