The NYTimes recently basically ran a puff piece on Kent Hovind’s Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationist themed “amusement park” that he’s offering as an alternative to Disneyland’s evil dinosaur propaganda.
This is my favorite sounding station:
Okay, maybe this is my favorite:
Er, this was meant to go in the Pit. This is not a good start for a Great Debate, even if anyone really wanted to do another creationism vs. evolution thing. I apologize: I could have sworn it was in the Pit…
Does the theme park actually exist or is it just another Holy Fund Raising Scam?
Gold. When I was young, we never had Jumpasaurus! We had to settle for Blackberry devices to please the Lord and we liked it!
Kent Hovind is an absolute frickin’ moron. Batshit stupid. Dumb as a box of extremely dumb rocks that even Wal*Mart wouldn’t let you return for a refund.
There are some Creationists who are actually mildly non-stupid, if still remarkably ignorant. Hovind is not one of these gifted. He will believe absolutely anything if it will promote his cause.
I spoke with him for a few minutes after a presentation he gave in a nearby town several years ago. He asked me if I had any proof that evolution occured, and I said yes. I pointed out the growing number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. He then said that antibiotic-resistant bacteria existed before the invention of penicillin, and therefore their resistant properties could not have evolved in response to penicillin. I told him that penicillin had been discovered, not invented. He had not been aware of that fact.
The next night, he gave the same (well, similar) presentation in my hometown. One of his proofs for a young earth was that at the rate erosion was occuring, if the earth was billions of years old there would be no more mountains. I waited for the question and answer portion, and asked him if, during his claimed 8 or so years as a science teacher, he had ever heard of tectonic plates. He said yes, but looked clueless. I asked him if he was aware that mountains are being continually pushed up in some areas due to the forces created by these plates. He said yes, and still looked like he had no idea what I was talking about. I asked him how it was possible, then, for his proof to be worth anything whatsoever. He immediately flipped his Powerpoint presentation to a picture of the Grand Canyon and went off on how water can’t flow uphill and how that apparantly proves something (other than that he’s an idiot).
I pointed out that he hadn’t answered my question, and was ignoring that one of his “proofs” was fatally flawed. I asked if he would admit that the proof was flawed and promise not to use it in the future. He said it was not flawed and started to talk about the Grand Canyon again. I was about to point out that the Grand Canyon was not a mountain and had nothing to do with my point but some people in the audience started yelling for me to move on from that point so I dropped it.
Yes, it’s entirely real. But please, someone move this to the Pit before someone rains holy hell down on me. 
Moderator’s Note: Ha! The Pit! That’s right–that’s where all you scoffers will go, with your evil-utionist ways and your rejection of God’s Inerrant Word and your little theories about monkeys and all your pointy-headed secular humanist intellectualism–down to the PIT!!! 
My reaction to this is a combination of :eek:, :(, and :mad:. I would elaborate, but I hardly think it necessary.
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Why can’t it be both? It said he’s being investigated for operating the place without a license and not paying his taxes. 
I was curious as to whether the place actually exists, or if he’s just asking for contributions while having no actual intention of building it (this has been known to happen in the past with vociferous religious folks)
Cite? Not that I don’t trust you, just that “Well, Mangetout said it, and that’s good enough for me!” does not exactly slay the opposition in casual (or not so casual) conversation;)
I thought Disney was already on his side. Consider the evil-ution of Fantasia to Fantasia 2000. We lose the segment with Stravinsky’s powerful Rite of Spring, which vividly depicts the formation of the Earth, the evolution of life, and the titanic battles of the mighty dinosaurs.
And what do we get in return? Pomp and Circumstance. Give me a break. Like anyone who has ever sat through any graduation ceremony of any lenght has any desire to hear that piece ever again. And what story is set to the music?
Noah’s freakin Ark, staring Donald and Daisy Duck.
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I know, the science of the Rites of Spring sequence was showing its age. But it was one of my favorites. And, honestly, Pomp and freakin’ Circumstance? Donald Duck as Noah? Argh!
Well, where is “Creation Land” and how much is a weekend pass?
That “coordination” stuff sounds fascinating.
Dinosaur Adventure Land • 5800 N. Palafox • Pensacola, Florida Sounds like a Creationist tourist trap to me.
I’d say both.
That’s not a theme park; it’s just a playground. Theme parks have roller coasters and log flume rides; they have food courts and musical revues. Hovind’s joint has rope ladders and see-saws, sure to be a crushing disappointment for any eager young Christian who is expecting to visit a Jesusified Disneyland.
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Fourteen people were injured in a “freak accident” at the Dinosaur Adventure Land theme park yesterday, according to a park official.
Myron Snodgrass, director of public relations for the park, said the 14 guests were attempting to dive into the pool and instead struck the water without sinking “as devout fundamental Christians are prone to do.”
“I guess their faith was just too strong,” Snodgrass said. “They hit the water like walruses splatting on pack ice.”
Park emergency medical personnel attempted to heal the tourists on-site by laying on hands and chanting in tongues, but were unsuccessful. The 14 individuals were transported by ambulance to local hospitals. Snodgrass said the emergency medical personnel were all fired.
“We practice results-based religion here, and obviously their faith wasn’t strong enough to heal these God-loving people,” he said.
Snodgrass said the injured showed signs of flattened foreheads and several missing teeth, although privately he acknowledged that many guests look that way already and there was no way to tell if the pool-jumpers were actually injured.
Although Snodgrass was quick to absolve the park of any liability in the pool accident, he said the park would reassess its offerings.
“We can’t work these people into a fever pitch about our belief in God and then expect them to lead normal lives,” he said. "Once they’ve accepted the fact that dinosaurs lived only 6,000 years ago, there’s no telling what they’ll be able to accomplish.
“I shudder to think how difficult a time these 14 people are going to have taking a bath once they get home.”
Sauron, I kneel before you.