Okay, within that satire is a genuine question: how many of you had your love of science and inquiry started by dinosaur toys as small children?
I had a pack of cards with creatures from the Cambrian to Paleolithic on them that I got when I was four or five. I'd love to know where they went.
2007-11-11 08:31:37 · 20 answers · asked by Doc Occam 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Pull My Finger: hey, every once in a while it's all right to run with the crowd. Especially when they're playing with dinosaurs before Snack Time.
Agnostic Front: Yes, I do. I'd like to think that razor is Occam's.
2007-11-11 08:39:36 · update #1
My grandma bought me a book on dinosaurs when I was five. I was fascinated and learned everything I could about them. Never lost that excitement. My own son had his first dinosaur books much younger.
2007-11-11 08:37:17 · answer #1 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't know why people have such a hard time believing that you can believe in God and science...Look at all the Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Christian scientists.
Robert T. Bakker is Paleontologist who was a figure in the "dinosaur Renaissance" and known for the theory some dinosaurs were Warm-blooded. He is also a Pentecostal preacher who advocates theistic evolution and has written on religion.
2007-11-11 16:42:49 · answer #2 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I always thought dinosaurs were cool, but I gave up religion when I read "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life" by Charles Darwin.
2007-11-11 16:37:01 · answer #3 · answered by Ode to the Damned® ÆA NR 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I know where the dinosaurs went: I killed them all, as referenced in an earlier question, actually worth reading.
I had my love of science started by my grandfather, who had two PhD's, one in Chemistry, and one in Chemical Engineering. It wasn't until after his death that I realzied he also studied alchemy, which I was already doing at the time. I love science and math, and teach my daughter that they are Soooo important. Blessedly, both she and by son enjoy minor Quantum physics and metaphysics (to the point that they can possibly comprehend.). I am so blessed, and so intoxicated. LOL. not that way very often, jsut felt like making it known tonight.
2007-11-11 22:49:19 · answer #4 · answered by Katie Short, Atheati Princess 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rod of correction. Yes beat the devil out of a kid with a cane pole if he even thinks of a dinosaur. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
2007-11-11 16:38:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I used to love dinosaurs. I had loads of books on them. I used to draw them. I was an obsessed little kid. I think it was the BBC series 'Walking with Dinosaurs' which started it all off.
2007-11-11 16:35:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I liked space more than dinosours. Dont know what it was, just something i enjoyed. And well now im a biologist, entirely different than space but Physics was just to hard and painful. But to connect it to your non point, the universe being billions of years old is not to fitting in with "some" not all, beliefs.
2007-11-11 16:43:12 · answer #7 · answered by MyNameAShadi 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I played with and was fascinated with dinosaurs when I was young. Still do to a certain extent. What I didn't do, was worship them.
2007-11-11 16:42:44 · answer #8 · answered by punch 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jebus wept! I was terrified of dinosaurs and was horrified to realise they'd actually existed but relieved to know they were extinct (apart from when they take the form of religious fundamentalists).
2007-11-11 16:39:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've always loved dinosaurs, and yes, it was one of my earliest links to science.
Such amazing creatures!
2007-11-11 16:37:35 · answer #10 · answered by John K 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋