Random Ridiculous Dinosaur Theories That People Somehow Believe Are True (13 items)

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  (#1) Satan Planted Fossils To Test The Faith Of Christians

  As if famine, war, murder, rape, general nastiness, and the ongoing question of why bad things happen to good people weren’t enough to test the faith of Christians in the modern world, there is an incredibly small number of people who believe that Satan has nothing better or more diabolical to do with his time than to plant fake animal bones deep within the Earth and wait for humankind to wander off the path of righteous.

  Actually, it’s a pretty solid claim.
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  (#13) Valve Used Portal 2 To Create Real Dinosaurs

  In 2011, computer game icon Valve released Portal 2, a highly acclaimed puzzler (that you should definitely play). In the days leading up to the game’s release, Valve pumped up the hype by introducing “an extensive and exhaustive alternate reality game into a number of videos, podcasts, images, websites, real-world locations, and 13 different indie games, including Super Meat Boy and The Ball.”

  Valve framed the game by claiming that the series' villain GLaDOS promised to release Portal 2 early if enough gamers “dedicated their CPUs to playing indie games.”

  It was that goal of monopolizing CPU use that caught the attention of reddit user kindlebee, who immediately took to the site to claim that Valve was using the promotion to try to somehow “create a real-life Jurassic Park.”
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  (#9) Dinosaurs Went Extinct Because They Took too Long To Hatch

  A paleobiologist at Florida State University (wait, don’t start laughing yet) is firmly convinced that dinosaurs went extinct in the wake of the asteroid strike because they weren’t getting out of their eggs fast enough. Gregory Erickson believes that once the asteroid strike happened, dinosaurs went extinct only because they couldn’t replenish their numbers fast enough.

  According to Erickson, dinosaurs may have taken as long as six months to hatch from their eggs. That meant that parents were tied to one spot for several months in order to care for their young, and that dino numbers were far too low to replenish.
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  (#11) Miami Dolphins Defensive End, William Hayes, Isn’t Sure About This Dinosaur Stuff

  Okay, let’s just allow Mr. Hayes to defend himself in his own words. In a conference call with the Miami-area media, Hayes supposedly explained the following:

  “This dinosaur thing I just can’t roll with. I go to the dinosaur museums and they tell me, ‘Oh, you see the fossils.’ Then, you might see one bone that’s the actual fossil they dug up and everything else is just pieces they put together around the fossil and created this T-Rex.

  “I went to the dinosaur museum and they told me most of the fossils on one dinosaur, everything was completely fake. It was just made up fossils and just a piece of a leg. But they create this big, massive creature. It just don’t make sense to me.”
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  (#5) The Masons Invented Dinosaurs Because They Needed A Species To Tie Evolution Together

  According to the AtlanteanConspiracy.com, dinosaurs are a hoax that was invented in the mid-1800s because evolution couldn't be proven without them (for some reason). The proof is obvious all thanks to a series of unanswerable questions posed by the author, which must be smart because they sound so simple.

  For instance, if dinosaurs existed, why weren’t they discovered before the 19th century? How was a scientist able to hypothesize a dinosaur without ever having seen one? How were scientists able to theorize an entire giant species based on a couple teeth? Obviously it was just a scientific conspiracy to launch the hugely profitable dino-hunting industry and lend legitimacy to the burgeoning theory of evolution. Duh.
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  (#6) Dinosaurs Are Living Right Under Our Feet

  According to one man on the street, dinosaurs weren’t killed off by some comet, and they definitely didn't survive the blast and end up evolving into dumb birds. No, dinosaurs actually fled underground when the meteor struck.

  Once in their subterranean haven, these gigantic beasts with comparatively pea-sized brains managed to survive and evolve into reptilian humanoids. In the intervening millennia, they’ve created “vast underground cities around the world.”

  It’s hard not to hear that one without picturing Earl Sinclair and his family. In that context, an underground race of reptilian creatures isn’t such a crazy notion.

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