Creationist theme park in Flori-duh......

[ikojo]

I guess a fundy theme park will keep the fundies from protesting Disney's Gay Days, huh?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/01/arts/01DINO.html

PENSACOLA, Fla., April 29 — Robert and Schön Passmore took their children to Disney World last fall and left bitterly disappointed. As Christians who reject evolutionary theory, the family scoffed at the park's dinosaur attractions, which date the apatosaurus, brachiosaurus and the like to prehistoric times.

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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."

[OpSomBlood]

1. Orlando practically IS a creationist theme park.

There are three churches on every freaking corner. And the Seventh-Day Adventists own three-quarters of the city.

Definitely Dubya Country.

[Dudley_DUright]

5. and it has a real Christian theme park right near Universal

called the Holy Land Experience. Can't say I have ever been, but you can see it from I-4.

http://www.theholylandexperience.com/

on edit: You have to see this map of the grounds. Scroll down to get a load of the menu items.

http://www.theholylandexperience.com/map/index.html

[peekaloo]

8. I thought my brother was kidding me about this park!

LOL....decisions, decisions...the Goliath Burger or the Arabian Chicken ......:think:

[mobuto]

10. The Holy Land theme park

is, as I understand it, designed first and foremost to convert Jews to fundamentalist Christianity. Hell, I'm willing to be converted to anything by anyone with a good enough shtick, but I'm not willing to go to Orlando to hear it. I also reserve the right to laugh at them.

[ironflange]

20. Where are the roller coasters?

What the hell kind of theme park has no roller coasters? How about "Holy Roller?"

[pstokely]

28. and the boy band creator

typical repuke

[Failure]

2. I was reading about Creationist Science Fair Projects...

"My uncle is a guy named Steve, not a monkey"

"Thermodynamics of Hellfire"

are a couple of the titles. I think you can google it.


failure.

[Bossy Monkey]

13. I think this was the Landover Baptist guys. Hysterical!

Though I seem to remember it was on their put-on close-down-Landover-Baptist site. Not just everybody can set up a spoof site attacking their own spoof site!:D

[CJCRANE]

3. Good for him...

and I hate those damn globes that show the world is round! Gonna open me a special flat earth map store...

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. *lol*

[Bronco69]

4. I loved this quote...

"Somewhat more creationist in approach is the Nerve-Wracking Ball: a bowling ball on a rope, dangling from a tall tree branch. A child stands before the ball, and then a park guide gives it a shove from a specific angle, so that it comes careering back at the child's face only to stop just in front of it. The child wins if he does not flinch, proving he has "faith in God's laws"


These people are f**king INSANE!!!

[boobooday]

6. They scoff at the dinosaur attractions

Noah didn't take any dinosaurs on the ark! Damnit, you heathens!

Dick Cheney is the only true dinosaur!

God didn't make talking mice, either, or Ducks who wear neckties.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Political_Junkie]

7. Wow

What a bunch o' nutjobs!

[gpandas]

9. all religion is bullshit, in my opinion n/t

[Asteroid]

12. Wow! Sounds like a blast

I can't wait for it to open, not!

[Endangered Specie]

14. I hope they dont reject science too much...

when theyre building those rides.

[GOPBasher]

27. LOL

You said it. I get particularly annoyed with this stuff, being a physics teacher. They seem to reject science all the time, but they still use their cars, computers, etc. Pathetic. :puke:

[7th_Sephiroth]

15. *lol*

i have seen this guy yelling bible quotes down at seville, i about kicked his ass one time

[candy]

16. Why did you want to kick his ass?

Don't you believe in free speech?

I haven't darkened the door of a church in years,but if people believe,they believe.

[7th_Sephiroth]

17. first

he was getting in everyones face, physically stopping people, wich crosses the line, and Second, he was acting like a coked-up psychopath

[candy]

19. I guess that would be reason enough for me.

[thom1102]

18. I love this line:

"We've been to museums, discovery centers, where you have to sit there and take the evolutionary stuff,"

That "evolutionary stuff," you know, the stuff that has scientific evidence to support it, unlike that creationist stuff which is true because some priest say so. :eyes:

[BlueEyedSon]

22. Next thing you know, we'll have to take all that Physics stuff too!

Like gravity, electricity.... dang!

[denverbill]

26. Yes, it's tough believing the earth is 6,000 years old.

Especially when we can see stars which are billions of light-years away.

But I guess God doesn't believe in Einstein.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Only in America ...

look at this:
One interpretation of the Gallup poll is that (to the nearest 5%):

45% of Americans believe in creationism and reject evolution completely.
40% of Americans believe in God-guided evolution but reject the "theory of evolution" advocated by neo-Darwinists.
10% of Americans believe in the naturalistic theory of evolution i.e., neo-Darwinism.
5% are undecided

The United Nations "Planet Project" polled people over the Internet to get worldwide views, though those are considerably less reliable than phone polls, especially because people who cannot afford Internet access may have different beliefs from those who can. On average about 18% of Europeans polled believed that man was created divinely by God (although this does not necessarily exclude evolution of the rest of nature) and the remaining 82% believed that humans descended from other species.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Evolution%20poll

Is it any surprise that so many Americans are ignorant about the environment and what might happen to it, when they wilfully ignore the evidence about what happened in the past?

[MichaelUK]

23. Brilliant

I've been looking for a stat like that for ages!!

Thank you

[Kellanved]

24. not quite

--snip
No evolution for Italian teens - Scientists, teachers shocked by plan to cut evolutionary teaching in secondary school | By Rossella Lorenzi



Tens of thousands of Italians have expressed their disagreement with a plan by the minister of education, universities, and research, Letizia Moratti, to ban the teaching of evolutionary theory to young teenagers.

Fearing the measure will pave the way for creationist teaching, more than 40,000 citizens—and the number is still increasing—have subscribed a petition launched last week by some of the country's top scientists through the daily La Repubblica.

...
--snap
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040428/04

The article misses a few things, especially that creationism is and will be part of the curriculum. The new curriculum kept Creationism and removed Evolution - rumor has it that an extreme RW catholic sect had something to do it, despite the catholic Church's acceptance of Evolution.
It should be noted that leading members of Berlusconi's coalition described Evolution as a "hegemony of the left, straight from the anteroom of Marxism" and organize Anti-Evolution events for the youth-organizations of their parties ("Evolution - a fairy tale for schools").


Anyway, thanks to the swift reaction of Italy's intellectual community the whole thing was stopped in time:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040429/01/

[finecraft]

25. The Nerve-Wracking Ball

Yikes!!! I have "faith in God's laws", but I don't know if I have that much faith in the park guide.....especially with a bowling ball careening toward my face!!!