Skeptical Inquirer article on Hovind's "park"!

the_ignored

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This is some weird crap here.

Check this out:
Two single-user restrooms form a border to “The Expedition,” and they provide what may be the most humorous item in the park. Bolted to the wall in both the boys and girls rooms are chains with tracts by the cartoonist/evangelist Jack Chick hanging from them. The pages are laminated and set on rings for ease of reading while using the toilet.
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Laminated??? I can't wipe my ass with laminated tracts! Ouch!
 
Not to mention the fact that laminated tracts would probably be durable enough for, shall we say, multiple use.
 
Why so much attention to the vomit joke regarding the spinning chair? And is the suggested donation really as necessary as SI says?

I was thinking about going before, but I would be kicked out in no time. And it sounds like an awful waste of time, time that would be better spent at an actual hands on science museum in Orlando rather than Mr. Hovind's backyard. I hear Wonder Works is pretty interesting.
 
c4ts said:
I was thinking about going before, but I would be kicked out in no time. And it sounds like an awful waste of time, time that would be better spent at an actual hands on science museum in Orlando rather than Mr. Hovind's backyard. I hear Wonder Works is pretty interesting.
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It's only $7.00. Might be worth the laughs.

Then again I'm not a big fan of dark comedy.
 
It's Mr. Hovind's backyard with a bunch of playground equipment! That's not worth seven dollars, it's a freakin' tourist trap. Not worth the amusing content, nor the arguments with the park attendants. Besides, Mr. Hovind and company are too easy a target, too obviously wrong, there's no challenge in that. If I want to have fun at the expense of a fundie conversion scam I'll go to the Holy Land Experience down the road with all my Jewish friends. I bet I can pick up my Chick Tracts over there.

On second thought no Jew should be exposed to that rubbish. But I have a much better idea. I'll hold a vampire LARP right inside the park, costumes and everything. A bible theme park is the perfect setting for Shades of Gray, and there are at least three guys whose fundamentalist vampire characters would love a park like that, Malkavians all of them. And the great thing is that if you've never seen a LARP before, it all looks like a formal get together with a bunch of creepy nerds until you pick up on some of the conversations. And I wonder what the park attendants woud think if they saw a bunch of geeks running around with their arms crossed going "obfuscated, obfuscated," and the Storytellers are following people around telling them whose blood they drink. LARPs look weird enough to people who've never seen one before, so imagine how that would appear to isolated members of the religious right. They'd think it was a devil worshipper's convention or something!
 
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