this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2026
23 points (100.0% liked)
Australia
4778 readers
162 users here now
A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.
Before you post:
If you're posting anything related to:
- The Environment, post it to Aussie Environment
- Politics, post it to Australian Politics
- World News/Events, post it to World News
- A question to Australians (from outside) post it to Ask an Australian
If you're posting Australian News (not opinion or discussion pieces) post it to Australian News
Rules
This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:
- When posting news articles use the source headline and place your commentary in a separate comment
Banner Photo
Congratulations to @Tau@aussie.zone who had the most upvoted submission to our banner photo competition
Recommended and Related Communities
Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:
- Australian News
- World News (from an Australian Perspective)
- Australian Politics
- Aussie Environment
- Ask an Australian
- AusFinance
- Pictures
- AusLegal
- Aussie Frugal Living
- Cars (Australia)
- Coffee
- Chat
- Aussie Zone Meta
- bapcsalesaustralia
- Food Australia
- Aussie Memes
Plus other communities for sport and major cities.
https://aussie.zone/communities
Moderation
Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.
Additionally, we have our instance admins: @lodion@aussie.zone and @Nath@aussie.zone
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
There were a lot of herbivorous dinosaurs. Vegetarian sort of implies an ethical choice. But still it shows we don't need meat to grow big and strong.
It's all too silly to actually engage with it, but I think Answers in Genesis are talking about carnivorous dinosaurs potentially becoming 'vegetarian' for the duration of their stay on the ark: https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/humans/dinosaurs-ark-how-possible/
Why the fuck do they even need to talk about (non-avian) dinosaurs at all? If the point they're trying to address is "how did meat eaters on the ark survive?" they could just as easily talk about lions, tigers, wolves, etc.
It's such a stupidly adult concern too. Tell the kids they ate meatloaf. They're kids. They'll buy it.
Well ideally the person telling a science teacher to peddle religious doctrine should be stuffed into a cannon and fired at a brick wall, but as an intellectual exercise...
And... if only there was a method that could be used to test how well that would have worked...
Why wouldn’t they just say noah and his kids went fishing for food the carnivores? It’s always funny when christians come up with weird answers when a more logical one is right there. Pt that i think noah or his boat existed just that if i was on a boat with hungry meat eaters i’d probably go fishing.
But the kids might ask questions: