A Day At The Park

[Charlie in Dayton]

Ken Ham & Co are about to whip together an amusement (?) park to 'prove' Creationism.

Here's the news article.

This is gonna be not that far from my place...might be worth a half-tank of gas and a couple rolls of film for The Ofishal Report...

Yo, Skinny...ya up for a road trip come springtime?

 

[farmermike]

"The evolutionary elite will be getting a wake up call"
Probably from a head shaking induced coma.

 

[I'll_buy_that]

"Mr Ham is particularly proud of a planned reconstruction of the interior of Noah's Ark. "You will hear the water lapping, feel the Ark rocking and perhaps even hear people outside screaming," he said."

oh, hear people screeming while they drown? Great place to bring the kids

and not to be in bad taste, but I hope they aren't expecting anyone from India, Sri Lanka, or Thailand....


"Elsewhere, animated figures will be used to recreate the Garden of Eden, while in another room, visitors will see a tyrannosaurus rex pursuing Adam and Eve after their fall from grace. "That's the real terror that Adam's sin unleashed," visitors will be warned."

Wait, I thought the real terror was leaving the grace of god, isn't that what all christians are taught?

"Everyone who rejects his history – including six-day creation and Noah's flood – is `wilfully' ignorant.''

wow, talk about ignorance...I bet the portrayal of Adam and Eve will be two Caucasians.

"a 3D depiction of the crucifixion" I take it that this park is not for entertainment purposes. Or are the Christians entertained by the slaughter of another human.

there will also be a cafe with a terrace to "breathe in the fresh air of God's creation'' I thought it was near Cincinatti


"The evolutionary elite will be getting a wake-up call." why do they always refer to the educated as the elite?


This is too much. You have to go when it opens and post pics. It might be good for a laugh

 

[Mr. Skinny]

Yo, Skinny...ya up for a road trip come springtime?

Sure. We can stop and see the giant fiberglas Jesus head at that church along I-75 on the return trip.

 

[CFLarsen]

Write me an article about it.

 

[Brown]

One wonders whether the museum will be promoted on scientific grounds or on religious grounds. Let's see... which of these two enterprises--science or religion--benefits from special laws that give it advantages in areas such as taxation and zoning?

It must be difficult to find investors for a project that has "loser" written all over it.

 

[Charlie in Dayton]

Write me an article about it.

Oh, there's liable to be more than an article here...got a friend with a website, and she rents me some server space...howzabout a temporary 'website' with written report and pitchers?

This could be fun...

Could we set it up for a tri-state JREF denizens' get-together?

And dare I wear my official JREF baseball cap in the front gate?

The temptation would be to ridicule the frog snot out of the place, but I almost think it would be better to stick to factual reporting, and let the reader draw their own conclusions. Maybe have a link or two at the end to direct them to the opposing viewpoint, but basically just leave the incising of a new anal orifice to others.

I'll have to keep track of this, to see when the Grand Opening is...

Stay tuned, boys' n'girls -- same batty time, same batty channel...

U(r)PDATE -- the above mentioned article sez that this place is supposed to open this spring, but the official website ( http://www.answersingenesis.org/museum/ ) indicates an opening date of Spring 2007 ...Skinny, we might have to reschedule...

 

[farmermike]

"Mr Ham is particularly proud of a planned reconstruction of the interior of Noah's Ark. "You will hear the water lapping, feel the Ark rocking and perhaps even hear people outside screaming," he said."

oh, hear people screeming while they drown? Great place to bring the kids

I think the screaming is supposed to be piped in from the fun room where children,singing "not going to make a monkey out of me"are encouraged to flog the tar out of evil evolutionists such as those wearing JREF caps.

 

[I'll_buy_that]

one of the biggest surprises, if you go to the website, is that they have a large globe in front. I didn't think they believed in a round earth

 

[trebob]

From the article:
" The new multi-million-dollar Museum of Creation, which will open this spring in Kentucky"

This is gonna be not that far from my place...might be worth a half-tank of gas and a couple rolls of film for The Ofishal Report...

Yo, Skinny...ya up for a road trip come springtime?

I live in Winchester, KY myself. I've been wanting to check this place out to (i'm an MST3K fan). Mind if I meet up with you there?

 

[Beady]

And dare I wear my official JREF baseball cap in the front gate?

Where'd you get a cap? All I got was a coffee mug!

 

[c4ts]

Mr Ham's Answers in Genesis movement blames the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, in which two teenagers killed 12 classmates and a teacher before killing themselves, on evolutionist teaching, claiming that the perpetrators believed in Darwin's survival of the fittest.

Congratulations fundies, you are destroying science and Christianity!

 

[Rose]

this would be an overnight trip for me. but it might be worth it just to see how badly mangled science is here. and to head off the "See it says right heres" I'll be getting from some of the believers around here who are science deficient. Be ready to head them off at the pass, so to speak. Anyone have some sort of date or timeframe they are looking at?

 

[Zep]

I wonder if this particular place is going to be as successful as their museum in Los Angeles, just near their headquarters. That one has been a distinct flop, not even being finished construction some years after it was opened. And the attendees per week are being counted on the fingers of one foot, apparently. All in all, a complete financial loss. Which makes me suspect they have closed it, and are now trying to revive the concept in the heartland of fundie-ville with a fresh crop of suckers.

For amusement, I think Ken Ham should be actively encouraged to expand on his great dream scheme. I'm sure the bright brains here can generate lots and lots of suggestions, each one more grandiose than the last, for more rooms for Ken to add on (and thus waste all the AiG money on - reason to follow).

For example, Daniel in the lions' den? Have an animatronic set of lions rip some poor Darwin lookalike apart limb from limb with heaps of guts and gore as a demonstration of God's merciful wrath, while a Ken Ham lookalike stays pure and untouched.

Or what about a recreation of Revelations - perhaps something by the producers box-office smash fright-films - blood, gore and guts, fire and brimstone, screams and howls, etc, showing God's merciful wrath. Again.

Or they could extend the Noah's Ark theme for the summer, and give people a taste of what it was like to not go on the ark by half-drowning them while moving the edge of the pool away from them. To show God's merciful wrath. Once again.

In reality, this stupid project will end up exactly like Kent Hovind's Dinosaur World, which, although it too is located right in the middle of fundie-land in Florida, has either been scaled down or has stopped trading altogether. No doubt the vast majority of the money spent on this project will be going into Ken's pockets as "project consultant fees" if he can help it. It is, in fact, a way for Ken Ham and his cronies to legitimise spending all the suckers' money, to simply launder their ill-gotten gains. The idea of expanding the scope of the project is to have more loot flushed uselessly down the toilet and so less in Ken's wallet.

Like I have been saying for a while now - it's all about the money with these people. Nothing else matters. Really.