An apparently religious experience....

Well, IR got home, and immediately started yakking about some pretty useless stuff tonight. HUGE 12" straws at CircleK and how they'd put someone's eye out, the idea that John Kerry has become "an African without the hyphen American".

But finally I got treated to a story about his brother in law, who is some kind of wannabe religious fanatic. His 'thing' is to pick apart everything about the bible as "he reads it".

Tonight, he was apparently all worked up about someone in Texas finding a petrified footprint of a dinosaur that had a human footprint inside it. (Dinosaurs came before humans, as far as all the scientific stuff i've read says....) But, this was absolute fanatical proof that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time.

The conversation went something like this.

IR - "I was talkin with my brother in law about this footprint they found in, ya know, Texas. It was petrified of course. It had a, ya know, human footprint inside it though, which.... how can I say this... Well, it completely disproves the idea that humans and dinosaurs never lived at the same time."

Me - "Really? So, it couldn't have been that the dinosaur footprint was made in a compound of clays or something, that never fully petrified by the time humans got here, and got wet or something before it got stepped in again?"

IR - "Uhhh... Ummmm.... Hm. Hmm... Well, if it was a hundred million years or so, ya know, it would've petrified."


Me - "That's quite possible, but it assumes that you believe the theoretical scientific timeline given for the earth's lifespan thus far. It also assumes that what's seen is actually a dinosaur footprint, and not one of some large alligator or other reptilian that's survived all this time."

IR - "Hm.. Hm. Well, at least it proves something."

Me - "What's that?"

IR - "Well, ya know, that dinosaurs were around either before or during the time that humans first showed up."






So that's proof???? Holy crap.....