Science and religion are two very conflicting bodies of knowledge. Attempts have been made to reconcile the knowledge that exists between the two bodies, but most have failed. The Creation Museum in Kentucky, however, has a new approach at compromise.

Built at the cost of US$ 25 million, the museum is preaching a lot of never-before-heard concepts that most scientists would scoff at. For instance, the museum has an exhibit that depicts Adam and Eve swimming with dinosaurs. Noah's Ark has been rebuilt as a scaled model and it shows baby dinosaurs lining up and boarding the ship that would save life on earth from the great flood.

The most interesting theory is that the museum claims that in the beginning, only plant-eating animals roamed the planet. After Adam and Eve disobeyed God and were cast out of the garden of Eden, the museum says some species started eating meat. Before man took his fall, killing machines such as the T. Rex used their sharp teeth to innocently snack on coconuts.

Yeah, we know, it's a little strange that just because Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and realized what was between their legs, animals start going after each other. Visit the museum now and be enlightened! Or maybe not....

There have been many theories about this before but this is the first time an evidence has been unearthed to support the claims.

Thanks to tiny bits of protein extracted from a 68 million-year old Tyrannosaurus rex bone, our dear scientists now have the first ever genetic proof that the T. rex is actually a distant cousin of the modern chicken.

Even before all these findings, the researchers have long believed that chickens evolved from dinosaurs based on the study of dinosaurs' bones. It's just that they are lacking soft tissue evidence to confirm their take.

The first light glimmered when Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University reported that she has found soft tissues (with blood vessels and cells) in a T-Rex bone from Hell Creek Formation in Montana back in 2005.

To be able to extract the samples, Asara utilized a scientific technology known as mass spectrometry. He first purified the bone extract. The brown fragments were then broken down into peptide fragments, little bits of proteins, isolated into the amino acid sequences that make them up.

Harvard Medical School researcher John Asara said,

It's the first molecular evidence of this link between birds and dinosaurs. It was very tough to get anything. Based on all of the genomic information we have available today, it appears these sequences are closer to birds or chickens than anything else.

After interpreting the sequence, it turned out that it is mostly similar to the amino acid sequences of a chicken.

Don DeBlieux went to take a photo of a possible site for fossils, but instead discovered a skull of a horned dinosaur believed to have lived 80 million years ago.

The protruding fossil was found in southern Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument - an area where horned dinosaurs hung out ages ago. The find is said to resemble the skull of a ceratopsid, a relative (albeit smaller) relative of Triceratops. The horned dinosaur was a plant eater back in the days when it was roaming freely on Earth. It's said to be the same size as a rhinoceros, which makes it a little less menacing than the other dinosaurs we know (can you say T. rex?).

Interestingly, DeBlieux discovered the fossils back in 2002 while conducting a paleontological resources inventory in the national monument. Four years later, he found the motherload, "I stopped and put my backpack down on a sandstone ledge and saw bone''.

The fossil will have a formal name in about a year and will make its debut at the Utah Museum of Natural History. That's still quite a long time, even enough for another great dinosaur fossil finds. After all, the national monument is a "treasure trove" of fossils.

Some 60 years ago, hundreds of dinosaur bones belonging to Coelophysis were discovered in a site north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Some fossils showed what appeared to be baby Coelophysis inside the grown-up Coelophysis, so paleontologists declared the species cannibals.

But the dino species may yet redeem its reputation as new fossil study suggests they didn't snack on their own young. "Our research shows that the evidence for cannibalism in Coelophysis is nonexistent," according to a team at Columbia University in New York City.

A new fossil suggests what's inside the Coelophysis could, in fact be, crocodiles or some related species. In another discredited evidence, the baby inside the adult was simply too big to fit in. Paleo-CSI agents now think the two bones had mingled during the event that caused the mass extinction. This gave the impression that adult Coelophysis practiced cannibalism.

Did they or did they not eat their own young? If the Coelophysis were on trial today, the case would be thrown out for lack of solid evidence.

Coelophysis bauri was a lightly built dinosaur less than a meter (about three feet) tall at the hips. The name means "hollow form" because of its hollow limb bones. Although about the size of turkeys, the Coelophysis belonged in the same group as the T. Rex.

Spielberg's Jurassic Park franchise may have been a monster hit with moviegoers but when it comes to scientific accuracy they missed big time.

If you ever come face to face with a full grown T. rex, don't stand still like they did in the movie. According to University of Oregon computer scientist Kent A. Stevens, the King of the Thunder Lizards had some of the best vision in animal history.

Not only will a T. rex see you standing still and wetting your pants, it can also smell your fear (and urine and sweat.)

According to Stevens, the skull bones and eye positions of the T. rex indicate it had a binocular field of view of 55 degrees - wider than modern hawks - and has even better depth perception and capacity to see objects. 

Standing motionless or camouflaged won't save you, it will just make you an easier snack. "It was a selective advantage for T-rex to see 3-dimensionally ahead of it, and with the size of its eyeballs, it couldn't help but have excellent vision."

Tyrannosaurus rex is a genus of dinosaurs from what is now western North America. T.rex was a bipedal carnivore measuring over 40ft (12m) in length and weighing as much as an elephant. However, one controversial theory suggested that T. rex was not a true killer but a scavenger.

T. rex is perhaps the first dinosaur to reach pop icon status.

Except for Barney, when dinosaurs move into a city, it's usually bad news. Cars are flattened. Buildings are smashed. Movie extras are eaten. But in Paterson, 15 miles west of Manhattan, dinosaurs were warmly welcomed as guests.

A thriving city of silk and cotton mills in its heyday, Paterson became another struggling manufacturing town that inspired a lot of Bruce Springsteen songs. Its finances sagged and as crime rates rose, its people migrated elsewhere.

But since 2002, Paterson has started its long hard climb back. Mayor Jose Torres has attracted almost $500 million of investment including Phil Fraley Productions, a company that rebuilds dinosaur bones for museum exhibits.

Owner Phil Fraley has prepared dinosaur exhibits for the California Academy of Sciences, New York's American Museum of Natural History and was involved in the restoration of Sue, the world's most famous T. rex, for Chicago's Field Museum. And his company needed cheap real estate.

In the company's new 11,000-square-foot Paterson studio, the team is working on a dramatic prehistoric confrontation: a mother Apatosaurus guarding its offspring from a marauding Allosaurus. The dinosaurs are part of a $7 million restoration job.  Once completed, the skeletons will be shipped back to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.

"We couldn't afford anything in Hoboken, couldn't afford anything in Newark,'' the company said. "Paterson still had affordable real estate.''

And that's how dinosaurs helped save a town.