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marmar

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Thu Jul 5, 2012, 10:44 PM Jul 2012

OK, if the T-Rex was allowed onto the Ark, didn't it start eating people? [View all]





The Creation Museum evolves: Hoping to add a life-size ark project, the museum hits fundraising trouble
By Liz Goodwin, Yahoo! News | The Lookout


Five years after it opened, the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., still gleams, and life-size dinosaurs still tread the Earth, shoulder-to-shoulder with humans. But behind the scenes, one of the most ambitious efforts in America to counter evolutionary theory has hit a roadblock.

When you walk into the Creation Museum, one of the first things you see is an exhibit of a doe-eyed human child crouched next to a velociraptor dinosaur. The two seem not at all surprised that their epochs have collided. Homo sapiens and velociraptors missed each other by a good 65 million years, according to most scientists, but in the world of the Creation Museum, humans and dinosaurs were created on the same day 6,000 years ago, coexisting peacefully in the Garden of Eden. A thousand years later, a 600-year-old man ushered them onto Noah's ark.

Answers in Genesis, a ministry founded in Australia, built the Creation Museum. The group seeks to convince others that the theory of evolution is wrong and that the account of creation told in Genesis is literally true. The result: a place that resembles a slick and entertaining natural history museum, even as it peddles the exact opposite message.

Now, the people behind this museum are looking to erect something much bigger: a 160-acre park with a life-size replica of Noah's Ark built to stand 500 feet long and 80 feet high. They're hoping to tap four teams of Amish builders to construct this giant ark, which would become the largest timber structure in the country. Including parking and other areas, the entire Ark Encounter would sit on 800 acres about a 40-minute drive away from the Creation Museum in northern Kentucky. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/creation-museum-evolves-hoping-add-life-size-ark-170347907.html



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They kept it on the leash and kept throwing it BAC-O's pinboy3niner Jul 2012 #1
DUzy! Nt PCIntern Jul 2012 #25
Lol!!!! XanaDUer Jul 2012 #32
stupid is as stupid does...this is some outstanding stupid spanone Jul 2012 #2
That is so ignorant of you. Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2012 #3
Silly person. God supressed their natural instincts while they were in the Ark. malthaussen Jul 2012 #4
Gawd suppressed everybody's bodily functions for the duration, just like he kestrel91316 Jul 2012 #40
Fundies told me that they took Dino EGGS on the ark, so no feeding or clean-up was required. JoePhilly Jul 2012 #44
Forget t-rex. What did all the other animals eat? Not to mention how did they fit that uppityperson Jul 2012 #5
BabyJesus™ has a shrink ray. DUHHH. xfundy Jul 2012 #7
Good grief, Jesus wasn't on the ark. That was Noah. Jesus wasn't for another couple thousand yrs. uppityperson Jul 2012 #13
There are nearly 1 million different species of insects alone aint_no_life_nowhere Jul 2012 #9
This link says all he took were farm animals which leads me to wonder where koala bears came from uppityperson Jul 2012 #14
From the koala bear farm pinboy3niner Jul 2012 #18
What I want to know is where the duckbilled platypi came from. kestrel91316 Jul 2012 #41
Maybe it had to do with the closeness of all those animals in the ark? Or it was just a joke. uppityperson Jul 2012 #43
Interestingly, the original Noah was more intelligent Generic Other Jul 2012 #24
No problem. What has gotten into the story is irksome. Seeds make more sense but... uppityperson Jul 2012 #30
I hate how humans cast both their greatest deeds and their worst as a higher power's doing Generic Other Jul 2012 #35
Ever read the book "Mister God, this is Anna"? It is annoyingly cute but has uppityperson Jul 2012 #37
I lived in a house where the previous tenant walked through a sliding glass door Generic Other Jul 2012 #38
It missed the Coulter branch MichiganVote Jul 2012 #6
wHERE's the unicorn? Generic Other Jul 2012 #8
That's easily answered: malthaussen Jul 2012 #12
Forward berth pinboy3niner Jul 2012 #17
Otherwise (due to a mistake in translation) known as "the kitchen". Buns_of_Fire Jul 2012 #21
I heard Noah carried a lot of intestinal parasites Generic Other Jul 2012 #23
No, Dinosaurs went extinct because they were not on the ark. Motown_Johnny Jul 2012 #10
God made him nicer, duh! Iggo Jul 2012 #11
No. They were Banging a Gong ( get it on). HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #15
Simple dietary change sarisataka Jul 2012 #16
Don't go nitpicking every piece of fiction you read... nt Comrade_McKenzie Jul 2012 #19
Was this before or after Zeus flooded the Earth Art_from_Ark Jul 2012 #20
ROFL Mr Dixon Jul 2012 #22
There is no way I could that museum. RebelOne Jul 2012 #26
It did it did nadinbrzezinski Jul 2012 #27
No sillier than many other routine beliefs. Warren Stupidity Jul 2012 #28
The important thing is to apply this same impeccable logic to 20score Jul 2012 #29
Robot Chicken Explains Exactly What Happened to Dinosaurs Yavin4 Jul 2012 #31
Seeing that everyone pretty much agrees that the Noah Story and other Tall Tales are KatChatter Jul 2012 #33
If you're going to start with the bible cbrer Jul 2012 #34
Eggs. Liberal Jesus Freak Jul 2012 #36
Wait that's Daenyris in GAME of THRONES Generic Other Jul 2012 #39
The myth of Noah's ark is common to MANY religions ... spin Jul 2012 #42
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