Dinny the roadside dinosaur has found religion.

The 45-foot-high concrete apatosaurus has towered over Interstate 10 near Palm Springs for nearly three decades as a kitschy prehistoric pit stop for tourists.

Now he is the star of a renovated attraction that disputes the fact that dinosaurs died off millions of years before humans first walked the planet.

Dinny's new owners, pointing to the Book of Genesis, contend that most dinosaurs arrived on Earth the same day as Adam and Eve, some 6,000 years ago, and later marched two by two onto Noah's Ark. The gift shop at the attraction, called the Cabazon Dinosaurs, sells toy dinosaurs whose labels warn, "Don't swallow it! The fossil record does not support evolution."

"We're putting evolutionists on notice: We're taking the dinosaurs back," said Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, a Christian group building a $25-million creationist museum in Petersburg, Ky., that's already overrun with model sauropods and velociraptors.

OMFG Noooooo! The fundamentalists have purchased the Cabazon Dinosaurs from PeeWee's Big Adventure and The Wizard. I predict they'll destroy them when they loose interest in this rather then turn them over to the corrupt moderate intellectuals. These dinosaurs will be the Bamiyan Buddhas of American Culture!

Best Quote:

There's something in their DNA that knows man walked with these creatures on Earth.

If this was true it would disprove his point!!!!

Here is the official homepage for the Cabazon Dinosaur's new management. Chock full of mind bending self contradicting rationalizations like the one above, and it REALLY puts the FUN back in FUNdamentalism! I can't wait until their online store opens up! I want a TRex Creationism Tshirt!

Adam, Eve and T. Rex - Los Angeles Times