The earth's entire geological history compressed onto a 6,000 year Young Earth Creationist's timescale (dinosaurs extinct in March 1927, humans arrive in November 2008)

RexArcana · 5 months

So what you're telling me is that the extinction of the dinosaurs caused the Great Depression?

I fucking knew it...

GuildensternPR · 5 months

I would like to take a moment of silence for all the dinosaurs who died fighting in, or from wounds shortly after, the Great War. Their sacrifices will not be in vain.

maltwyrm · 5 months

So if dinosaurs co-existed with Edgar Allen Poe, why didn't he mention them?

[deleted] · 5 months

would be nice if this subreddit had more of this and less facebook-based grandma smackdowns

canadian_anarchist · 5 months

I'm sure if Dinosaurs were around during WWI or WW2 someone would have found ways to utilize them in the battlefield. Nazi T-Rex, anyone?

kingssman · 5 months

good pic. the whole 6000 year old is too ridiculous. though I do believe the scale needs to be at 8000 considering technically 6000 years old could have been B.C

no scholar or anything but where does the 6000 year point start since it can shift depending on the current time who interprets it.

still, cool pic btw

Deris87 · 5 months

As humorous as that is, the problem is it doesn't really address the actual idiocy of many young earth creationists, who claim that God made the world with the appearance of age, to test our faith.

variationalprinciple · 5 months

This one is more whimsical, but it has the same message.

kboyz · 5 months

Oh my god. In the Ordovician period.. its a Reaper!

Kaffein · 5 months

But then how did Hitler get those Dinosaurs affixed with weapons in WWII?

grgisme · 5 months

Hilarious. Though not actually good to show any YEC who actually knows what they're talking about -- they'll just point out to you how they're explanation for the entire fossil record is Noah's Flood, and proceed to show you how by their completely unsubstantiated tests, the animals would have been drowned and rapidly fossilized in the same exact order as the fossil record.

Source: I had to learn all this because my parents are Young Earth Creationists.

GoodWithoutAGod · 5 months

It's good, but it would have been better if they could have put the real dates on the side.

DrChadKroegerMD · 5 months

There's plenty of evidence for life going as far back as the archean. Your time scale is a little off.

northbayray · 5 months

Yeah but come on, man. They must have started going extinct in 1900 or so. Or maybe even a little earlier. Pretty sure Henry Ford got inspiration for his original car design from riding a triceratops.

Aix · 5 months

did anyone else read "muttaburrasaurus" as "megabuttasaurus" the first couple times, or was it just me?

pyrd · 5 months

Anatomically modern humans can trace their ancestry back 200,000 years. This graph is wrong (as it pertains to the arrival of modern humans) -- it's actually off by a factor of about 10. 3.4 years in a 6016 year universe corresponds to about 2.5 million years in the real universe.

Were this graph accurate, human beings as we know them would actually have appeared 12 or 13 days ago.

thenewaddition · 5 months

In 1927 the Mississippi river flooded over 27,000 square miles. It was the most extensive natural disaster in American history. 246 people and all the dinosaurs were killed.

serialcereal · 5 months

i love science

Lorgramoth · 5 months

Had the T-rexes arms been longer, the Germans would've won WWI. Good thing they weren't.

Agnostic_cat · 5 months

Are you sure Jesus couldn't have a rode a dinosaur?

quietwarrior · 5 months

Wow! You mean George Washington rode T-rex into battle against the British?????

AstroNarcissist · 5 months

Why is the Allosaurus featured in the Early Triassic? They lived in the Late Jurassic...

Dustphobia · 5 months

Awesome! All the geologist at the mine loved it. All our copper-sulfide deposits were deposited around the 22nd of July, 1822. I always wondered how they got buried 2000ft down. It's good God put the copper so deep, we really want to work hard to pull it out.

chaogenus · 5 months

Anaerobic bacteria gave their life for your oxygen metabolizing sins.

Jidget · 5 months

Didn't read the title, felt really dumb and confused for about twenty seconds.

Madman200 · 5 months

What's really amazing about this is that if you did the same thing but compressed it into 365 days dinosaurs don't show up until late November and humans show up on december 31 at noon. So dinosaurs had a month other creatures had half a year but humans have had 12 hours and look at the impact we've had and how we hav evolved

johnnynutman · 5 months

false. dinosaur fossils were planted in the '30s by the jews, duh.

seriously though, this is kind of pointless. judeo-christians might think the world is 6000 years old, but they also don't believe in evolution let alone try to fit in their attempt of history.

isthataturtle · 5 months

Humans arrive the day after Obama was elected. Coincidence I think not.

Lilcheeks · 5 months

Medieval times were so much simpler than I remember reading.

benderkw · 5 months

Regarding the last point in 'Interesting geological facts' - Heisenberg would not have existed until after Nov 2008 and so formulation of his uncertainty principle and extinction of the dinosaurs are not connected - way to mix time scales...

[deleted] · 5 months

Clearly, Hitler was influenced by the dinosaurs' ferocious and unforgiving nature. I just am saddened that he didn't mention his faithful steel, Pterosaur, in Mein Kampf.

fiocho · 5 months

This is awesome. I wish I had this while I was still in school getting my geology degree.

Kazantu · 5 months

My teachers would be so proud.

Nethius · 5 months

http://www.clubtokyo.org/images/figures/tsuburya/tsuburyaFigureDinoTank.jpg

yaysuekristy · 5 months

I see this was made in Australia... are we sure it wasn't done by Ken Ham and meant to be taken seriously?

Ballsiot · 5 months

Well obviously time moves forward at a rate with a decreasing exponent until humans appear. The graphs are just wrong. You need to be more skeptical of simple graphs guys. Christians 1 Atheists 0

khast · 5 months

Now I know where they got the idea for the Flintstones.

Konchshell · 5 months

Holocene.

Anyone? No? Because that's the most profound thing I got from this info graphic...why am I so dumb?

Jarode · 5 months

uncertainty principle it killed the dinosaurs

amolad · 5 months

Jesus riding a raptor = hilarious!

brait · 5 months

in high definition http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/files/2012/04/creationist_timescale-500x917.jpg

TheMrPurple · 5 months

So you're telling me I can disprove creationism by stating that I'm more than 4 years old?

That's gonna save me a lot of time.

DSight · 5 months

Dinosaurs up until 1927!?! BA HA HA HA HA. I WISH!

Michiel_de_Ruyter · 5 months

Well you have to admit, it would make life a lot more interesting.

Dereliction · 5 months

This is brilliant. I wish I'd had this to show Creationists, well, back when it was the mid-Miocene.

ExLenne · 5 months

TIL Silurian doesn't just refer to a race of aliens from Doctor Who.

TIL I should read more and watch less Doctor Who.

dheinzen2 · 5 months

The stupid... It hurts...

decimetar · 5 months

OMG this is fucking punch in the balls and elbow bitch slap in the face at the same time. their arguments are on the level of a 12-year old child. they'll get mad if you don't support their cause of whom they don't know nothing about but they'll still wine and get crazy because they don't understand that there is more to learn in life. education is for everyone and science radiates with friendliness and collaboration. glad we went to space and to the moon. people be ready, upcoming times are going to be the awesome times on this pale blue dot. let's get our shit to party. oh boy we gonna party all the time, our whole mfcuking life. and with medicine and technology we will thrive like a fucking awesome party animals just being ready to party and pleasure themselves from birth to death we will party our assess off. oh boy, fuck this fuck that I wanna party my whole fucking life. fuck stress, fuck fears, fuck all the bad shitty stuff and negativeness, fuck that bro. party on bitches!

krokenlochen · 5 months

The Fifth of November....

elmokazoo · 5 months

Related is this song by Cloud Cult.

username2002 · 5 months

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene–Oligocene_extinction_event

Damn Hitler...

donuts741 · 5 months

Now I know why the Americans won our Revolutionary War! Because we had dinosaurs! :D

bl4ckduck · 5 months

If an overwhelming body of scientific fact isn't enough to convince someone that our planet is over 6,000 years old, unfortunately this won't either.

Punkrocker333 · 5 months

So much fail.

tardmuffin · 5 months

Credit where credit is due.

[deleted] · 5 months

It's a little known fact that we're now in the Giraffic period.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Giraffic-Park/3518943?ref=nf

cairdeas · 5 months

So the Cambrian explosion in 1303 preceded the 100 years war? I'm now forever going to picture Joan of Arc as a trilobite.

Shaggyninja · 5 months

And yet I still wasn't alive when Dinosaurs were :'(

othergeneration · 5 months

Christians believe everything was made in 6 days.

alexicov · 5 months

You sir win r/atheism.

Zealex · 5 months

Haha, that's pretty funny.

Atheris · 5 months

That's so funny.

Be_Amazing · 5 months

This is still not even close. If you tried to smoosh the entire earth's geological history into 6,000 years, humans would arrive in the last couple of weeks.

90% of history was spent in the Pre-cambrian period, which began 4500 million years ago or so. Humans arrived about 10,000 years ago, during the Holocene period. 10,000/(4500 million) = .000022222. .000022222*(6,000) = .13.

So we've actually only been around a little over a tenth of a year - so maybe 1 or 2 months.

Algernon_Asimov · 5 months

Because that's such an accurate representation of the beliefs of Young Earth Creationists.

That's about as valid as mapping the periodic table against the Ancient Greek's philosophers' four basic elements.


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