Christian Group Calls To Remove Dinosaur From Tucson McDonald's

I hate to see stories like this because as a Christian, I tend to be lumped in with the “crazies”. Like LCDR Joshua Gillespie said, the problem with these types of Christians is misinterpretation of Scripture and the belief in “Sola Scriptura” or scripture only. This has led many Christians down this same bad road. Science is good and so is faith. They actually compliment each other when properly applied. Science will never disprove God but it can help, through the scientific method, to lead us right to Him.

I'm a Christian, I believe in Creation Theory... I also believe in T-Rex.

Part of this problem is the many ways in which theological "interpretation" diverges from theological dogma. I've yet to find the Scripture stating, "God created no giant lizard things" (or extraterrestrials, or worm-holes, etc, etc.); neither have I read any such verse explaining how Noah couldn't have brought these creatures on the Ark... or conversely, anything stating they may not have gone extinct by the time of the Flood. Simply put, we don't know, neither do we need to. For my own part, I have studied enough paleontology to accept the possibility these enormous "monsters" were either long-gone, or in sharp decline by Noah's day. I think "something" made it aboard... and that's where we get "dragons" from; however, I figure we wiped those out fairly quickly as we re-populated the planet.

Another problem is the question of adaptation. No, I don't believe in modern theories of evolution... but I also find no difficulty with my faith in accepting that some species "change", even radically over many thousands of years in response to changes in climate, habitat, or breeding. To me, if a very distant cousin of a T-Rex had a beak and feathers (evidence shows many dinos might have had them)... it's not difficult to infer the ostrich or even the chicken emerging from them. That's a far cry from asserting a Velociraptor "evolved" from an aquatic slug... let alone mankind from an ape.

Maybe it would be better if my brothers and sisters in Christ focused on less tenuous issues.

That being said...I humbly submit that "science" has, at times, shot itself in the proverbial foot for no reason. I may never fully understand the apparent wide-spread "hatred" for religion that often seems harbored by (some) scientists. Why is it so "important" to "disprove" God? Some offer the "violence" and "regression" born of some "religious" principle... but I could just as candidly offer that there are plenty of secular engines of genocide and repression out there. No, I think part of it is the need for "answers" where so few are available. I choose to believe the Biblical account of Creation as "written" because I believe it to be an exercise in faith... proof of concept, if you will. That doesn't mean that I need science to dig up Adam's skeleton and discover a rib missing to hold onto that faith.