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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 11:54 AM
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Fl. Dinosaur Park created for the religiously insane

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/01/arts/01DINO.html?ex=1084388448&ei=1&en=4acfaab545bdf565

Darwin-Free Fun for Creationists

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So this week, the Passmores sought out a lower-profile Florida attraction: Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationist theme park and museum here that beckons children to "find out the truth about dinosaurs" with games that roll science and religion into one big funfest with the message that Genesis, not science, tells the real story of the creation.

Kent Hovind, the minister who opened the park in 2001, said his aim was to spread the message of creationism through a fixture of mainstream America — the theme park — instead of pleading its case at academic conferences and in courtrooms.

Mr. Hovind, a former public school science teacher with his own ministry, Creation Science Evangelism, and a hectic lecture schedule, said he had opened Dinosaur Adventure Land to counter all the science centers and natural history museums that explain the evolution of life with Darwinian theory. There are dinosaur bone replicas, with accompanying explanations that God made dinosaurs on Day 6 of the creation as described in Genesis, 6,000 years ago. Among the products the park gift shop peddles are T-shirts with a small fish labeled "Darwin" getting gobbled by a bigger fish labeled "Truth."
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Cincinnati is next
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 11:57 AM
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1. OOOOOEEEEEEVVVVVAAAAAAAAY!
Next thing you know, they'll be saying that Dubya was created on the 7th day.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:00 PM
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2. I think he was created on the same day
as the dinosaurs along with the people that attend this. Obviously, their brains haven't developed past the stem stage yet.
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:00 PM
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3. Thanks, I needed that. n/t
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StClone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:00 PM
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4. I hope
They rolled up in the foot propelled "Flintstone mobile" to steel their fictional convictions.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:01 PM
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5. Can kids get their pictures taken with Jesus' pet dinosaur??
Leroy???
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:11 PM
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10. Jesus couldn't have one.
He was allergic to dino dander.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:04 PM
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6. Just remember, when it comes to evolution:
Edited on Sun May-02-04 12:05 PM by louis-t
"there's j-j-just no P-R-O-O-F, no, NO, there's no P-R-O-O-F! What dinosaur bones? NO PROOOF! I can't hear you, ah-la-la-la-la..."

edit for: Sheeesh!
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:06 PM
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7. did dinosaurs
ride the Ark? If they did, they must have been babies.
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:07 PM
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8. Hmmm. Created on the 6th day.
But never mentioned in the Bible. Are Dinosaur's the Bible's "dirty little secret"?

It just gets funnier and funnier.

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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:09 PM
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9. Since they weren't in the bible
did they exist? Or have nasty scientists been making some out of plaster and planting them in the ground?
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:12 PM
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11. They might be the secret. WMD's that * has been looking for
Weapons of Massive Dinosaurs.. Too bad about the "junk science". We have been putting "them" in our gas tanks for Ages..:)
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:16 PM
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12. No, it mentions dinosaurs in Job 40: 15
"Look at the behemoth which I made along with you, and which feeds on grass like an ox."

Another theory is that this might be describing Karen Hughes.

:P
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Toucano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 01:13 PM
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20. Cant' be Karen Hughes nor a dinosaur
Unless she has "sinews of stones"!

Reptiles have testicles inside the body. Also, reptiles don't have navels.

Maybe the behemoth is Karen after all! LOL

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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 01:22 PM
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21. But dinosaurs didn't eat grass.
For the same reason they didn't eat people.
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soup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:29 PM
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13. Escapees have made it as far north as South Dakota
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:30 PM
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14. Isn't Hovindbag bankrupt?
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alvis Donating Member (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:53 PM
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18. I don't know about bankrupt, but
he was arrested:

http://www.skepticnews.com/articles/02/09/27/0232220.shtml


I would love to go there, and try out my Darwin Fish T-shirt :evilgrin:
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SemperEadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:35 PM
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15. well, he can be happy with the fact
that he will be placing American children so far behind in the sciences that in the future, they will never be able to compete with children from other countries where they're not afraid of the truth of science.

Our children can be guaranteed that outsourcing will be a fixed staple in terms of jobs in the future. Thanks, dude!!!

Not many nuclear scientists have based their education on creationism.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:38 PM
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16. In CA our dinosaurs are atheists
and proud of it!!

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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 12:49 PM
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17. like that :)
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Neshanic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 01:10 PM
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19. Next door, a Diorama of "Lil'Jesus' babies come from Cabbages!"
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Poor Richard Donating Member (65 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 01:51 PM
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22. Dinosaurs bones were placed in Earth by God
to test our faith. I have actually heard people say this.
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 01:52 PM
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23. They're not Dinosaurs, they're "Jesus Horses". n/t
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