This morning in class, one of my students sarcastically asked where dinosaurs fit into the New Testament. Improvising, I said that God actually hadn’t created dinosaurs yet and they were actually only going to be around in the end times. The reason there are fossils is that time is a circle and it’s already looped back around — the future dinosaurs died, then their bones remained in the ground for the loop-around.
This was coming off a class break, so students were kind of still filtering in, and someone asked where I was getting these ideas. I just pointed at my Bible and said, “Have you guys even been READING this stuff?!”
Sadly, one person looked so confused that I had to explicitly say I was kidding.
An und für sich 
Of course you’ve revealed to your students the theological-political subtext of Calvin and Hobbes?
I didn’t mention Calvin and Hobbes explicitly in class — though now I’m thinking about the tantalizing prospect of teaching a whole course on the comic strip!
Sorry professor Kotsko. I thought I just wasn’t reading carefully enough!
I’m going to assume that’s not a passive-aggressive reference to a previous comment exchange, because those are strongly counter-indicated.
Yes, thank-you for not assuming. It most certainly was not passive-aggressive (if there was any aggression it was aimed at myself!). I see I have a lot of ground to make up to have enough cred here to make jokes! . . . To interpret third sentence, see second sentence.
Du-huh, obviously dinosaurs only fit in the Old Testament.
Of course, there can be no dinosaurs without the incarnation.
Andy has to win some kind of comment award for that one.