Concrete Dinosaurs

When the boys were little we always stopped at the Apatosaurus Toy Store on Interstate 10 just as you're leaving Cabazon, California.  They loved climbing into the dinosaur's big belly and picking out toys.  It kept them entertained during that final boring four-hour leg to Phoenix.    This time, it was my travel buddy who wanted to stop here.  He's a dinosaur afficionado who can rattle off the names of the dinosaurs from the Triassic to the Cretaceous Periods.  He has seen every movie and documentary available on NetFlix.   And Jurassic Park?  I think he's seen it twenty times!

We were thrilled to see that the little park had expanded to include even more dinosuars and robotic ones at that!  With no kids in tow, we could spend hours here!  So off we went to buy our tickets for Mr. Rex's Dinosaur Adventure.

While my travel buddy was happily roaming the garden paths shooting away with the camera, I went into the gift shop to see the robotic dinosaurs, and I started to read the exhibit's posters.  "It has been calculated that it would take 30,000 years for the earth's atmosphere to reach equilibrium.  Evolution teaches that the earth is millions of years old.  But the Earth's atmosphere has not reached equilibrium yet, showing the earth is not even 30,000 years old."    What in the world?  I looked at the books on the shelves.  They were selling titles such as Universe by Design,  Thousands . . .not Billions, and The Six Days of Genesis.  I had better divert my travel buddy from coming in here!!

Too late.  He had been up into the T-rex's jaws and inside the big fellow's belly were more posters.  He came out laughing.  "Did you know that cave men and dinosaurs lived at the same time?" he asked.  "And that there's proof because of dinosaur cave paintings?"  I searched his eyes for disappointment.  "And not only that, but dinosaurs aren't really extinct because in 1933 there were fifty-two separate sightings of a big monster in a loch.  Wow.  Imagine that."

"Well," he concluded.  "These creationists have proven a point."

"What's that?" I asked.

"There's definitely  not enough science being taught in our schools."