Intelligently Created Dinosaurs [Weirdest Places]
Posted by Brett on August 3rd, 2010Everyday this week…Brett Rounsaville brings us the Weirdest Places to Visit in America.
What’s the weirdest movie you can think of from your childhood?
That’s right, Peewee’s Big Adventure.
Now what’s the weirdest scene you can recall from that movie?
Yep, Peewee talking about Simone’s “big but” while sitting inside a giant dinosaur. (Shut up about Large Marge already.)
That giant dinosaur is one of two built by, Claude Bell, a caricature artist at Knott’s Berry Farm who also owned the Inn across from them on I-10 near Cabazon, CA. It took him eleven years to finish the giant Apatosaurus and he died before he finished the Tyrannosaurus. (Their names are Dinny and Rex BTW.)
Now, here’s the weird part. (Because it’s not weird that a caricature artist spent a quarter of his life building a 150-foot long concrete dinosaur on a lark. Or that it has found its way into popular culture via a faux children’s entertainment film directed by a crazy haired genius. No. The weird part is…)
After the guy that sunk his entire life into two dinosaurs (complete with frescos explaining evolution in their bellies) died, the two guys that bought the property, Benjamin S. Carson, M.D. and Dr. Michael Egnor, turned it into…wait for it…a creationist museum!
(Because nothing says intelligent design like two giant lizards that were apparently so poorly designed that they couldn’t survive the 6000 years since the world has been created.)
You can now pay five dollars to visit the creationist museum in Dinny’s belly and purchase toy dinosaurs with labels that say, “Don’t swallow it! The fossil record does not support evolution.”
Awesome.
Want to discuss creationism versus evolution? Roadside attractions vs theme parks? How about Peewee’s Big Adventure versus Big Top Peewee? Well then, that’s why god invented the comments section!
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August 4th, 2010 at 12:45 am
Creationists are always good for a laugh.
August 4th, 2010 at 1:52 am
Roadside attractions over theme parks, definitely! Our blog,“Go BIG or Go Home,” chronicles what happens when our small-town family visits the “world’s largest”…whatever! http://GoBIGorGoHomeblog.com