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Creationist Theme Parks

Are there any other countries in the world that would rather teach science as fiction/fantasy? I wonder when Physics will be removed from the school curriculum.
I believe we are watching devolution occur at a fantastic rate. 50 years from now America will surely be a reflection of Planet of the Apes, just look at their leader ;)
I think they should remove any references to rainbows being caused by refraction of light from rain droplets, because we all know that God created the rainbow after the great flood.
Kyle: Hey Stan. Did you see that rainbow this morning?
Stan: Yeah. It was huge.
Cartman: Eh. I hate those things.
Kyle: Nobody hates rainbows.
Stan: Yeah. What's there to hate about rainbows?
Cartman: Well, you know. You'll just be sitting there, minding your own business, and they'll come marching in, and crawl up your leg, and start biting the inside of your ass, and you'll be all like, "Hey. Get out of my ass you stupid rainbows."
Stan: Cartman, what the hell are you talking about?
Cartman: I'm talking about rainbows. I hate those friggin' things.
Kyle: Rainbows are those little arches of color that show up after a rainstorm.
Cartman: Oh. RainBOWS. Yeah, I like those. Those are cool.
Stan: What were you talking about?
Cartman: Huh? Oh nothing. Forget it.
Kyle: No. What marches in, crawls up your leg-...
Cartman: Nothing.
Kyle: ---and starts biting the inside of your ass?
Cartman: Nothing.
 
Re: Xtian theme parks and anti-evolution nuts. :headbutt:
 
Krobone said:
Re: Xtian theme parks and anti-evolution nuts. :headbutt:
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Yes, rational debate gets you nowhere with these people.

But we wouldn't want to descend to the playground level of name-calling, would we?

...Why not?! :twisted:


Bonkers Bonkers Bonkers!
 
Ah only in America eh?? Or not:

A fun day out for all the creationists

James Russell
Monday January 2, 2006
The Guardian

Do you have doubts about Darwin? Does the Big Bang leave you cold? Then why not pay a visit to Noah's Ark Zoo Farm, the UK's premier creationist attraction? Not that the place is advertised like that. Instead, people are tempted by "The Rhinos of Wraxall", a fine example of alliterative branding in the competitive world of family attractions.

However, when Anthony and Christina Bush, who had farmed in the north Somerset village for almost 40 years, launched Noah's Ark in 1999, they had two aims. The first was to show people where food comes from, the second to teach creation science. An Oxford-trained mathematician, Anthony Bush is no fire-and-brimstone evangelist, but he is committed in his beliefs. In the 1980s he was a founder of the revolutionary Send A Cow programme, and it was, he says, the long-term study of livestock that first suggested to him the limits of evolution.

More than 80 types of animal now live on site, including two white rhinos, monkeys and reptiles, as well as sheep and goats, but it doesn't feel like a zoo. Not that the animals are mistreated. Far from it. Rather, they are presented in a different way from, for example, nearby Bristol Zoo, where a powerful environmentalist message dominates.

When I visited Wraxall with my son's nursery group, we went to the animal show and learned the difference between a cow's horn and a deer's antler. We learnt that ewes have udders, and we watched the presenter milk a ewe and drink the milk. Then events took a curious turn. A donkey was led in and the presenter traced a marking on its back. Did we know that the domesticated donkey has a dark cross marked on its back, he asked us casually, whereas the wild donkey doesn't? Did the cross not remind us that the donkey carried Jesus?

In retrospect, I was intrigued by my shock at this mild evangelical interjection, a reaction that reflects a more general antipathy towards creationism. Anthony Bush hopes "to give people permission to believe in God", by disputing the truth of Darwin's theories. However, the prospect of a religious world-view having any authority fills non-believers with dread.

Christians are warming to creationism, in Britain as elsewhere, but the religious challenge to evolution is not new. The Creation Science Movement (CSM) was founded in London in 1932. At the new Genesis Expo museum in Portsmouth, CSM makes its case with an animated dinosaur and dioramas designed to persuade people that creation through evolutionary processes is impossible.

There are similar displays at Noah's Ark (and online) that argue, inter alia, the historical truth of Noah's flood and the ineluctable differences between animal families. Bush is certain of his convictions. "There is nothing in the Old Testament," he says, "that stops me, as a scientist, believing it."

Darwinists and Big Bangers, ignore at your peril. In 2005, 100,000 people visited Noah's Ark Zoo Farm.
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www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1676558,00.html

I've always wondered if I should introduce myself as a Big Banger.
 
Mighty_Emperor said:
I've always wondered if I should introduce myself as a Big Banger.
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You silly sausage, you! :D
 
I have lived in the country all my life and I have `never` seen a Rhino, white or otherwise.
 
Published - January, 19, 2007

10 years for 'Dr. Dino'

Michael Stewart
[email protected]

Pensacola evangelist Kent Hovind was sentenced Friday afternoon to 10 years in prison on charges of tax fraud.

After a lengthy sentencing hearing that last 5 1/2 hours, U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers ordered Hovind also:

-- Pay $640,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.

-- Pay the prosecution’s court costs of $7,078.

-- Serve three years parole once he is released from prison.

Hovind’s wife, Jo Hovind, also was scheduled to be sentenced. Rodgers postponed her sentencing until March 1 to allow her defense attorney an opportunity to argue possible discrepancies in sentencing guidelines.

Prior to his sentencing, a tearful Kent Hovind, also known as "Dr. Dino" asked for the court’s leniency.

“If it’s just money the IRS wants, there are thousands of people out there who will help pay the money they want so I can go back out there and preach,” Hovind said.

Hovind, founder of Creation Science Evangelism and Dinosaur Adventure Land in Pensacola, was found guilty in November of 58 federal counts, including failure to pay $845,000 in employee-related taxes. He faced a maximum of 288 years in prison.

Jo Hovind was charged and convicted in 44 of the counts involving evading bank-reporting requirements and faces a maximum of 225 years in prison.

Kent Hovind, who is incarcerated in the Escambia County Jail, will be assigned to a prison by the Bureau of Prisons. Rodgers recommended Kent Hovind be sent to the prison at Saufley Field in Pensacola so he will be close to his family.

It will be up to the Bureau of Prisons, however, to make that determination.
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www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs. ... /701190332
 
Creationist Museum Brings Dinosaurs On Board Noah's Ark

From The Times

May 28, 2007

Creationist museum brings dinosaurs on board Noah's Ark

Tom Baldwin in Washington

A vegetarian Tyrannosaurus Rex frolicked alongside human beings only a few thousand years ago in the Garden of Eden until Eve decided to munch on that apple, according to the Creation Museum, which opens in Kentucky today.

The $27 million (£14 million) exhibition is funded by evangelical Christians, who apparently believe that by reclaiming dinosaurs and fossils for their literal biblical interpretation of natural history, teenagers are less likely to look at internet pornography or get pregnant out of wedlock.

This sprawling 50-acre (20hectare) site is the latest effort to counter the evolutionary science taught in state schools that Answers in Genesis, the religious group behind the museum, claims has chipped away at the nation's moral fabric.

It uses much of the same technology seen in mainstream museums. There are realistic moving, roaring dinosaurs and a lifesized model of a ship being built by animatronic craftsmen. In this corner of northern Kentucky the dinosaurs get to go on the ship, which happens to be none other than Noah's Ark.

Inevitably the museum, which hopes to receive 250,000 visitors a year, has attracted criticism from members of the scientific community, who plan to stage a "rally for reason" outside the entrance today. Two petitions are in circulation among university lecturers complaining about the inaccuracies of the exhibits and efforts by the "Religious Right to inject creationist teachings into science education".

Although attempts to reintroduce an element of creationism – rebranded as "intelligent design" – into science lessons have foundered, three of ten Republican presidential candidates said in a recent debate that they did not believe in evolution. Opinion polls show consistently that half of Americans believe that humans did not evolve but were created, along with all living creatures, by God 6,000 to 10,000 years ago.

The museum has a series of rooms depicting the darkening of a world that abandons a literal interpretation of the Bible. Two teenagers, apparently indoctrinated with evolutionary teaching, are shown at home. The girl is talking to Planned Parenthood and the boy is looking at pornography on a computer. These images culminate in a wrecking ball, labelled with the words "millions of years", smashing down a church.

Ken Ham, the Australian-born founder of Answers in Genesis, believes that the battle for minds should be fought among the very young because of children's fascination with dinosaurs. These creatures have long since posed a "test of faith" for creationists because of fossils suggesting that T.Rex and suchlike walked the Earth – and then disappeared – millions of years before the Book of Genesis says that God spent six days making everything.

"Dinosaurs are one of the icons of evolution, but we believe they lived at the same time as people," Mr Ham said. "The Bible talks about dragons. We believe dragon legends had a basis in truth . . . We like to say, 'You've captured them for evolution, and we're going to take them back.' " All those fossils, some of which are exhibited in the museum, were created not millions of years ago but by the biblical floods.

In one exhibit two palaeontologists – a light-skinned creationist and a dark-skinned evolutionist – are shown digging up a dinosaur skeleton and, of course, reach different interpretations. The message is that it is OK, even scientific, to defy evolution.

Eugenie Scott, director of the National Centre for Science Education, calls the museum "the creationist Disneyland". Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist at Case Western Reserve University, accuses it of spreading "documented lies".

Mr Hams says: "Why do they worry about my little museum? They've got museums all over the world."

Literal truth

* The basis of creationism is belief in the Bible's literal truth. Most creationists believe the Earth is only a few thousand years old

* They believe that life did not evolve gradually through natural processes but was formed supernaturally by God

* The only changes possible in plants and animals are negative ones of degradation or extinction

* Natural processes are seen not as self-sustaining but as maintained daily by God. Miracles are thus seen as God's choice to do something differently

Sources: creationministries.org ; clarifyingchristianity.com

© Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd
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This museum is like a tribute to american stupidity and religious ignorance.
 
SameOldVardoger said:
This museum is like a tribute to american stupidity and religious ignorance.
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America today, Britain tomorrow... :evil:

Creationists plan British theme park
A business trust is looking at sites for a Christian showplace to challenge the theory of evolution

Jamie Doward
Sunday December 16, 2007
The Observer

The latest salvo in creationism's increasingly ferocious battle with evolution is about to be fired in Lancashire. Not in a fiery sermon preached from the pulpit, but in the form of a giant Christian theme park that will champion the book of Genesis and make a multi-media case that God created the world in seven days.
The AH Trust, a charity set up last year by a group of businessmen alarmed by the direction in which they see society heading, has identified a number of potential sites in the north west of England to build the £3.5m Christian theme park.

The trust claims it already has a number of rich backers who are keen to invest in the project, which will boast two interactive cinemas, a cafeteria, six shops and a television recording studio, allowing it to produce its own Christian-themed films and documentaries.
The 5,000-capacity park will be the first of its kind in Britain, but not in the world. In Orlando, Florida, hundreds of thousands of visitors make pilgrimages to the Holy Land Experience, where they can see a bloodied Jesus forced to carry his cross by snarling Roman soldiers.

Peter Jones, one of the Lancashire theme park's trustees, said the emphasis would be on multimedia rather than the costume re-enactments of famous biblical scenes favoured at Holy Land. 'It will be a halfway house for youngsters,' Jones said. 'Today all they do is binge drink. We will be able to offer them an alternative.'

By producing its own films, the trust believes it will be able to provide an antidote to modern culture. It says on its website: 'On television today there is so much sex and violence, it is no wonder our youth are binge drinking ... This is a revolutionary scheme requiring innovative people with the vision to bring about change and a new direction.'

It declined to say who the backers were, but admitted it is talking to a number of businessmen who have invested in city academies, leading to speculation that it may have approached Sir Peter Vardy, who has given millions of pounds to advance the claims of creationism - the belief that God created the world and that Darwin's theory of evolution is wrong.

While the plans for the park are still in their infancy, the trust has big ambitions. A business plan available to prospective investors suggests the park could bring in £4.8m a year - apparently 10 times its estimated overhead costs.

The trust also says it plans to apply for government grants and European funding to help it realise its dream of turning the television studio into 'an international leader in promoting family-oriented Christian programmes'.

Although concerns about the direction of modern society are the trust's main motivation for building the theme park, it is also in response to what the trustees identify as a sense of drift within the Church of England.

'The church in this country is in crisis and many church leaders living in Australia, America and Canada have openly proclaimed that God has left the church in England,' the trust states on its website.

'Evolution has falsely become the foundation of our society and we need the television studio to advocate Genesis across this land in order to remove this falsehood, which presently is destroying the church foundation.'

The theme park's anti-evolution bias and its emphasis on Genesis has raised eyebrows among planning officials, according to Jones, who originally wanted to build the park at the site of an old B&Q store but was refused permission by the council.

'Wigan council slammed the door in our faces. You mention the C [Christian] word, and people don't want to know,' Jones said.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/ ... 01,00.html

I suspect the Church of England is probably embarrassed by this creationist stuff, but can hardly speak out against it because denying the literal truth of Genesis would be seen as the thin end of a wedge which would end up denying all religious belief.
 
Cant see it working in this country without bringing the muslim enthusiasts onboard.

and he has a very odd idea of youth (and one that will mortally offend many of his potential targets)

or are they like that up north????
 
"You're missing 98 percent of the population if you only go the intellectual route."
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So how else does one debate an issue?

Are so its marketing not truth...
 
said the emphasis would be on multimedia rather than the costume re-enactments of famous biblical scenes favoured at Holy Land.
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Well, that doesnt sound much fun does it? I would prefer a costume drama.

it may be more appealing to our `yoof` but I cant imagine them liking it.

Teens are instinctivley wary of anything preachy or condescending, and from his writing it seems he has a very slapdash attitude toward his target audience.

I realy hope this does not go ahead; not because Im against creationism (along with the xtians I know) but I think it will be a miserable flop.

or else a magnet for the sort of `yoof` he decries to go and cause aggro.

(or the wrong sort of atheist...)

or possibly even popular with our muslims (and lets face it, a lot of the yoof here who `do` follow a religion are muslim) would he mind that sort of market??

(but of course it would be funny if this did happen)
 
Noah's Ark and Tower of Babel to be built at Kentucky amusement park
A full-size Noah's Ark is to be built in Kentucky, as part of a £100m creationism amusement park.
6:10PM GMT 02 Dec 2010

The planned complex is also expected to feature a walled city, a replica of the Tower of Babel and a recreation of a first-century Middle Eastern village.

There will also be a 500-capacity theatre, an aviary, and a "journey through biblical history" section.
The park is expected to open in 2014 and draw 1.6 million visitors a year.

It is likely to be built on an 800-acre site about 40 miles from an existing Creation Museum, near Cincinnati, Ohio, US.

Steve Beshear, the Governor of Kentucky, hailed the project and said it would bring in 900 jobs to the state. American Atheists said that the state endorsement of it was improper.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... -park.html
 
Ken Ham: “Dinosaurs Perished In Flood After Noah Refused To Let Them Board His Ark For Homosexuality"
The Bible is a literal, factual history of the world, including Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood. People lived 10 times longer in Biblical times because the Earth’s atmosphere had more oxygen then. These are just a few of the wrong-headed “facts” on display at the Glendive Dinosaur & Fossil Museum in Glendive, Montana, according to the Great Falls Tribune, which published an expose on the creationist museum recently.
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Ham argued that “God had seen the atrocities dinosaurs were doing to each other, like gangbanging and raping other members of their kind. And to make matters worse, they were doing it to the male members of their species. So, in fact, it was the dinosaurs who invented homosexuality for reasons that still remain unknown.” And, naturally, “having seen that, God decided to cleanse the Earth as he would continue to do on numerous occasions after that. But we are certain that the dinosaurs perished in the flood after Noah refused to let them board his Ark. That’s where it all began, that’s the origin of gay people today. And now we have both scientific and Biblical confirmation of that. Hurray for science!” he added.
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The founder of Answers in Genesis also said that “Noah didn’t want the dinosaurs on his Ark because he knew that they were swinging both ways.”...
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:eek:
http://religionlo.com/ken-ham-dinosaurs-perished-flood-noah-refused-let-board-ark/
 
HA, so okay, the above unsurprisingly turned out to be satire.

Here's the real story:
Among the foundational ideas of the Glendive museum:

•The Bible is an accurate, literal history of the world. The world is about 6,000-6,400 years old and a six-day divine creation.

•The flood of the Bible’s book of Genesis, the Noah’s Ark flood, split the continents apart with water called from the deep and set off a worldwide cataclysm that buried the creatures that would become fossils in one mass event. The long flood, ensuing volcanic eruptions and an ice age radically changed the planet.

•Dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time. Dinosaurs were on the ark.

•Life can not be traced back as branches to a trunk. God created “kinds,” like dog kind from whence sprung dogs, wolves, coyotes. Humans and primates don’t come from the same “kind.” Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon and humans are all of “humankind,” which came from Adam and Eve.
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http://www.greatfallstribune.com/st.../28/dinosaurs-bible-glendive-museum/83681042/
 
Perhaps fighting lies with lies is not the best idea.
 
Xanatic* said:
Perhaps fighting lies with lies is not the best idea.
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Its funny! People will quickly realise its satire.

My Twitter followers have to complete a Proof Of Life Irony Test before they are accepted.
 
Remember Poe's Law.
 
I prefer Pooh's Law.

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What will future Arkeologists make of that?
 
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