I’m just going to pluck out a few of the funniest parts of an article about Florida’s latest creationist “museum”. It and the newer, bigger, even less contaminated by science museum outside Cincinnati have gotten a bunch of blog post activity, but the Ohio one just has a really lame website, and Noah’s Park has an article full o’laughs.
The author first describes it as
Noah’s Park, a Gospel fossil park emulating the blockbuster movie, “Jurassic Park,” is gearing up at the Middle Florida Baptist Assembly grounds . . .
Do you go to the museum, get locked in, then chased and killed by dinosaurs? That doesn’t sound like much of an enticement to go there, IMO. However, it would take care of two problems at once, because the people who would pay to get in might be better off. . .oh, no, I wouldn’t want anyone to be eaten up by dinosaurs, but locked away wouldn’t be all that bad.
The exhibits are provided by “self-taught creationist” Tom Baird. Reading his comments in the article, I’m guessing he’s taught himself grammar and vocabulary as well.
“To find a fossil, I’m finding, often times, especially if it’s a dinosaur fossil, a victim of God’s judgment,” Baird said. “And I may be the first one to ever see the remains since it was buried in the flood.”
“If you went to what they would call a normal museum they’d give you all their evolutionary dogma,” Baird said. “They don’t tell you that they’re giving you evolution and it’s not that I have … to say I’m a Bible-believing creationist; I just present the evidence.”
Noah’s Park is part of the 21st century answer to the world’s solutions, Baird said.
“The church has failed to see the importance of the history of the past,”
“I wanted to help the saints understand that the Word of God is reliable. In fact it is the only reliable historical document from the past and the most accurate because it is without the corruption of man…. Jesus saw the origins and the beginnings of all these things from where you’ve got to start if you’re going to form theories and try to understand what it’s all about.”
Taught himself science, too, I’d wager. And history.
If you’re anywhere near Lafayette County in Florida, run away. Very fast.