Creationists say theme park’s caged dinosaurs will prove Bible story about Noah’s Ark
Source: Raw Story
Creationist Ken Ham has spent $101 million, with help from taxpayer subsidies, to build a replica of the ark mentioned in the biblical story of Noah. However, the Bible never said anything about the dinosaur cages that the ark will be outfitted with.
The Los Angeles Times, who got a tour Tuesday, reports that Ham said the massive ark, based on the Biblical tale of Noah who receives an end-of-the-world prophecy from God about a massive flood, will stand as proof that the stories of the Bible are true.
Inside the ark are cages with replicas of animals, as well as Noah and his family, and their pet dinosaurs. Ham and his organization believe that God created the world and everything in it approximately 6,000 years ago. That means, 6,000 years ago God made man and dinosaurs so that they could cohabitate, but Noahs flood wiped them all out.
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I am just begging and hoping that Bill Nye---the Science Guy--- will ask one simple question. Tell me about the removal of animal excrement from the Ark. I have a link below that indicates elephants defecate up to 20 times a day.
http://library.sandiegozoo.org/factsheets/asian_elephant/asian_elephant.htm
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)Polar Bears walked on their own from the Artic to the Middle East/Southwest Asia and they can't be trusted without being put in a cage?
anoNY42
(670 posts)they weren't eating people left and right on the way there?
TipTok
(2,474 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)they feed and water animals for '40 days and 40 nights?
fresh water from rain sure, but without tons of hay all the animals would starve in about 2 weeks tops.
Always Randy
(1,059 posts)yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Just because it isn't mentioned doesn't mean it did not happen!
Cirque du So-What
(25,940 posts)Preservation of meat would have been a problem, and the bible doesn't mention surplus animals being brought along for the meat-eaters.
Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)Get thee behind me unclean worshipper of baal, or some other blindingly logical answer.
forgotmylogin
(7,529 posts)n/t
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)also proves that cartoons are real.
Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)They are just not alive.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)And they're not alive either.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)for all the fresh water fish.
And all the tanks for fresh water for everyone on board.
Always Randy
(1,059 posts)I agree with you----they are going to have to do an update on the size of the vessel
NickB79
(19,247 posts)If you hypothetically added enough water to raise sea levels by 25,000+ feet, you'd dilute ocean water to the point sea life couldn't survive. Freshwater fish would likely have an easier time of it (though they'd still all run out of food as the aquatic food chain fell apart in short order).
Let's see those tanks holding the great white sharks and schools of tuna!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)A 2011 study estimates 8.7 million species on earth, of which only about 1.2 million have been identified and counted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_biodiversity
Where do they house the plants on the ark? The bacteria? The polio, the smallpox, the ebola virus, the HIV virus?
102,000 species of spiders.
Some estimates of the number of insect species go as high as 30 million.
The food for all those animals?
Climate control for the animals? Some die if temps are above 10 deg C, some die if temps below 20 deg C.
It would be laughable nonsense if it were not so stupid.
Always Randy
(1,059 posts)I am certain that they will have a reasonable explanation for this ----how about the gator pond? gators and crocs have to b e separate because of their fresh vs salt water requirements
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)About half of the 33,000 fish species are fresh water fish.
Conversely, so much rain to flood over the top of Mt Everest would dilute the salt water, so they might need tanks for salt water fish.
Would really need tanks for all species of fish, to maintain the correct amount of salinity for each.
Something fishy about their whole story.
Always Randy
(1,059 posts)I hope you are not going to use scientific fact to disrupt activities at the theme park
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Where did all that water go when the rain stopped?
Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)All the water went to Pittsburgh. I can't prove it, but hey, I am quite sure I am right.
Igel
(35,317 posts)You don't need a breeding pair of every animal; speciation (could have) occurred after the Flood.
Don't expect consistency. Some will argue "nothing like evolution." Some will argue that evolution from one species to another is right out, but having species diversify is okay--maybe in general, maybe as a one-time thing, and good luck sorting out that difference between that an evolution as usually taught in high school.
The reason for not expecting consistency is that there are different groups of creationists with different sets of beliefs. The most shoddily thinking of them conflate them all into a kind of plum-pudding. Others try to be "theory"-internally consistent. (The science guy in me hates that usage of "theory"; but the humanities guy in me finds it to be perfectly acceptable usage. No, the science definition is not The One True Definition.) Even secularists come in different flavors, depending on their depth and range of knowledge and what they want to believe.
Heck, there are even old-Earth creationists. The universe started 13.7 billion years ago, the earth was formed 4.67 billion years ago, but the Genesis creation story is the re-creation after the Earth was trashed. Under that version, man was made less than 6000 years ago. Some, I suspect, even liked the book on the "Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind." Why? Because if man was created in God's image, that wasn't necessarily (they argue) physical, but moral or intellectual, and so there might be some quasi-literal way to keep 1.5 million year old fossils *and* "True Humans" being formed 6000 or fewer years back. Enjoy.
TipTok
(2,474 posts)In other words, every dog, wolf, and everything that looks like one came from the two wolves that were on the boat.
Logic plays no part in any of this. The greater the intellectual gap, the better they feel because that requires greater 'faith'.
A quality they have been told is the defining characterstic of a human being and second to none.
broadcaster75201
(387 posts)nt
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)I don't know whether to or
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)were part of the oil companies exhibits
the idea was the oil came from decayed dinosaurs
Sinclair oil logo was a big green brontosaurus
what do you expect from the age of Fred Flintstone
Always Randy
(1,059 posts)Igel
(35,317 posts)Free, with fill-up at participating stations.
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)they had these giant injection moulding machines, under domes plexi-glass if
they had such a thing then. You put in I think it was 50 cents, the two halves of
the mold came together, lots of noise, a minute or two late the molds popped
apart and the dino was out the ejection shoot
Usually there's one or two available on eBay
jzodda
(2,124 posts)Instead of money spent on some farce. Dinosaurs lol
Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)When candidates for national offices are forced to raise millions to fund their campaigns, I always wonder how many hungry people that vast amount of money could feed.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)Always Randy
(1,059 posts)I hadn't thought about the idea of the story----so attendees at the park get to tell their kid about the angry God that flooded the earth -----I think the kids would be better at Six Flags
Ford_Prefect
(7,901 posts)truebrit71
(20,805 posts)Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)Or was it gopher wood? I often get my magic woods confused
Jazzgirl
(3,744 posts)Putting these dinosaurs on a fake boat financed with state tax breaks prove dinosaurs and man coexisted???
0rganism
(23,955 posts)maybe calling it "proof" would make sense if i were a fundamentalist creationist? clearly not the target audience.
sarisataka
(18,656 posts)Double
Bonus
Squinch
(50,954 posts)bklyncowgirl
(7,960 posts)I'm so confused.
sarisataka
(18,656 posts)Although that does bring up the question, did Noah let non-gay dinosaurs on the ark or were they gay and died from their evil homosexual ways later?
bklyncowgirl
(7,960 posts)Now it all makes sense.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Oh, wait! They came about due to atomic testing. Never mind...
Javaman
(62,530 posts)and how instead the same materials could have built housing for the homeless.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)When the contribution scam ends and the project goes belly-up, it could still be turned into Section 8 Housing.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)haele
(12,659 posts)So, is Mr. Hamm going to show an emu or a cassowary, and call it a dinosaur?
Haele
Igel
(35,317 posts)Lest they rip off somebody's head.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)...getting in the coop anymore.
Igel
(35,317 posts)Just asking.
NickB79
(19,247 posts)A couple dozen humans on a ship, and dozens of known human STD's and genital parasites. That's not good.
The Lord's commandment of "Be fruitful and multiply" would be a LOT harder to carry out once that ship hit dry land with those kind of odds. It would basically be like playing Russian Roulette with your junk.
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)guess they carried all the parasites and diseases too.
Wouldn't want to forget those!
47of74
(18,470 posts)Person 2713
(3,263 posts)Don't let facts get the best of you!
demwing
(16,916 posts)tanyev
(42,564 posts)???????
longship
(40,416 posts)When one releases the lions and zebras together?
Huh?
And how do the marsupials get to Australia without leaving populations all along the way? Either it's gawd, or the Wallace gap.
I choose the latter.
Blandocyte
(1,231 posts)I'm so tired of these morons.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)water creatures on the ark? Whales? Sharks? How about snakes? Satan's favorite animal. Worms? Flys? Mosquitoes?
Rex
(65,616 posts)As a taxpayer, I want to know how he cons 101 million from our government. I want a refund!
zz-la
(224 posts)The only thing missing is a bunch of billboard ads plastered on the exterior of the ark.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)That would be a fun theme park.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)Nihil
(13,508 posts)One where they charge to go in and one where the droppings from the gene pool get out again ...
Night Watchman
(743 posts)DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)My pastor told me that the lord made it so that animals didn't have to eat or defecate when on the ark. Seriously, that is what he told me.
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)You'd think these characters had no idea how science works ...
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Noah spent 75 years building a wooden boat roughly the size of a World War II aircraft carrier, from trees which aren't exactly plentiful in the desert, and no one noticed.
You're also missing out that "the whole world" in the Bible was the Arabian Peninsula. If tigers or polar bears didn't exist in the Arabian Peninsula, they wouldn't have been on the Ark.
And fish? Come on: fish LIVE in water. The Flood was water. Where do you think they were kept?
dembotoz
(16,806 posts)Vinca
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