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Related: About this forumA giant ark is just the start. These creationists have a bigger plan for recruiting new believers.
Source: Washington Post
A giant ark is just the start. These creationists have a bigger plan for recruiting new believers.
By Karen Heller May 24 at 10:08 AM
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But Ham did not rest.
The 65-year-old Australian and his partners, Mike Zovath and Mark Looy, have launched an ambitious 10-to-12-year plan to re-create a walled city from the time of Noah and a 1st-century village from the time of Jesus.
Also, a Tower of Babel, concept snack shacks, a 3,200-seat amphitheater and a 10-plagues-of-Egypt thrill ride. Frogs! Fiery hail! Locusts!
Instead of building a church, Answers in Genesis is sharing its teachings through a controversial biblical theme park designed to attract believers and nonbelievers alike.
How do you reach the general public in a bigger way? Ham muses rhetorically, sitting in his expansive corner office at the Creation Museum, his first, more sober foray into the family entertainment business, which celebrates its 10th anniversary on Memorial Day. Why not attractions that people will come to the way they go to Disney or Universal or the Smithsonian?
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By Karen Heller May 24 at 10:08 AM
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But Ham did not rest.
The 65-year-old Australian and his partners, Mike Zovath and Mark Looy, have launched an ambitious 10-to-12-year plan to re-create a walled city from the time of Noah and a 1st-century village from the time of Jesus.
Also, a Tower of Babel, concept snack shacks, a 3,200-seat amphitheater and a 10-plagues-of-Egypt thrill ride. Frogs! Fiery hail! Locusts!
Instead of building a church, Answers in Genesis is sharing its teachings through a controversial biblical theme park designed to attract believers and nonbelievers alike.
How do you reach the general public in a bigger way? Ham muses rhetorically, sitting in his expansive corner office at the Creation Museum, his first, more sober foray into the family entertainment business, which celebrates its 10th anniversary on Memorial Day. Why not attractions that people will come to the way they go to Disney or Universal or the Smithsonian?
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A giant ark is just the start. These creationists have a bigger plan for recruiting new believers. (Original Post)
Eugene
May 2017
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Panich52
(5,829 posts)1. Aren't they dooming themselves by recreating the edifice
that they think led to god creating havoc by throwing a monkey wrench into communicationthe Tower of Babel?
Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)2. Didn't some sort of religious theme park
near Orlando just curl up and die recently?
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)3. Did the Ark actually recruit anyone?
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)4. Unlike Disney there whole park will be Fantasy Land
Nitram
(22,971 posts)5. Sounds like they are playingg with fire if they are bbuilding a Tower of Babel.
Iggo
(47,597 posts)6. Tower Of Babel? Seriously? Have they not read their own fucking book?
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)7. I want to see the 'The Ride to Hell' ride