All right children, this is today's Required Reading, wherein the "Intelligent Design" faithbots get their comeuppance but good. It is quite long, but worth every word. The first section is especially funny. To wit:
"They have come from Indiana, one woman says, two toddlers toddling at her feet, because they have been home-schooling their children and they have given them this adventure as a kind of field trip. The whole group then bustles into the lobby of the building, where they are greeted by the long neck of a huge, herbivorous dinosaur. The kids run past that and around a corner, where stands another, smaller dinosaur.
Which is wearing a saddle.
It is an English saddle, hornless and battered. Apparently, this was a dinosaur used for dressage competitions and stakes races. Any working dinosaur accustomed to the rigors of ranch work and herding other dinosaurs along the dusty trail almost certainly would wear a sturdy western saddle.
This is very much a show dinosaur."
To reiterate, these people actually BELIEVE that THIS happened, and not very long ago at that. This is the actual museum dinosaur referenced above, wearing said saddle:
I don't know about you, but Triceratops would not be my first choice as a riding animal. Very bumpy, rough gait, and the shape is so rotund that it's hard to find a saddle to fit. Plus they were not very fast, so it's kind of like riding a garbage truck. Let's see if we can find a better fit....
Oh, this is MUCH better, Fast, nimble, and everybody gets the bloody HELL out of your way when they see you coming!
T-Rex with a saddle - NOW you're talkin'!!! Hey, if I could pilot one of these babies around town I might warm up to ID!
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