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Dopey dinosaur dates

WHAT do creationists make of dinosaurs? The Arkansas-based Museum of Earth History (www.moeh.org) has some surprising insights. You might have thought, for example, that the dinosaurs couldn’t fit on Noah’s ark – but the museum reveals that God carefully selected pairs of young dinosaurs small enough to fit on board, who could go forth and multiply when the Flood receded. The description of Behemoth in the Old Testament’s book of Job, written 300 years later, “clearly matches the description of a sauropod (commonly known as a brontosaurus)”, the museum’s website reports.

And what finished off the dinosaurs? The…

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