You deny Dino Flintstone?

Is it the heat in Arizona that makes people do goofy things? The latest is, some people are trying to make a McDonald's get rid of a fiberglass dinosaur statue because.....you won't believe why.

Well, there is a group called Christians Against Dinosaurs. 'Twas they who denounced a fun statue of T.Rex. On their Facebook page they rallied their followers to bunch up and do something about getting rid of that statue because

a) dinosaurs were known to be racist

b) dinosaurs often drove drunk past kindergartens while tossing fireworks out of their car window and firing revolvers

c) dinosaurs never picked up a dinner check after a night out with friends, claiming that their short little arms couldn't reach any further

d) 23,000 people think they never existed.

At least, that's how many people have "liked" the Facebook page Christians Against Dinosaurs, which states that its purpose is to let us all see the "truth" about the "dinosaur lie." They say that dinosaurs never roamed the earth, but were a scam that scientists cooked up in order to "thwart religion."

[Take ten seconds right now and say the word "thwart" three times slowly. Like the word "ointment," it gets sillier every time you say it.]

Their cry for help was printed in the Arizona Daily Star. "Please help! This McDonald's has this dinosaur and refuse (sic) to remove it! This is in Tucson, Arizona. Call the manager and demand the removal of this blasphemy!"

And then they give the name of the local franchisee so their nuts  adherents could hassle whoever answered the phone there.

Meanwhile, this T. Rex has been hanging around the McD's on Grant Road and Tanque Verde Road since 1994, bothering no one, amusing millions.

Some people think these people are just kidding, but then again, some think that of the Flat Earth believers, and where did that get us? The guy who spoke to the Daily Star said this ain't no joke, no sir:

"Yes, the dinosaur should go unless they're willing to compromise with a plaque of some kind stating that it's a fictional character," Josh Brown told the outlet.

Not this T Rex!

The Patch news site contacted CAD and were told that it's not a joke to deny T. Rex. "We're fed up with everybody acting like the people of Tucson are imbeciles and we want to help," a spokesperson for the dino-deniers told the Patch. "Having a big dinosaur outside a cultural hub like McDonald's makes Tucsonians look like they're mentally deficient and that isn't right."

The group also told Patch that they are not science deniers; they merely deny the science of dinosaurs.

The group also took issue with claims that its page is satirical, saying that they are not science-deniers. They just don't believe in dinosaurs. "We simply recognize that dinosaurs are not supported by anything scientific," the group wrote. "They're a parlor game that got out of hand."

No. Uno is a parlor game that got out of hand. Paleontology is for real.

It is funny, though, that the members of this group keep driving past McD's to fret about the T. Rex, forgetting that without the real T. Rex and other dinosaurs, there would be no oil to power their Buicks.