The Democratic governor, Steve Beshear, approves of the project and supports the huge tax break. Unfortunately at the same time they are cutting 286 million from education and cutting social services. Someone has their priorities out of order.
Here are the words of Australia's evangelical speaker at his own website called Answers in Genesis.
Were Dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark?
He gives a 3 step process of how he decided that the world was only a few thousand years old. Then he goes on to defend his views which are in essence...the Bible says it so it must be so. Very literally so.
In Genesis 6:19–20, the Bible says that two of every sort of land vertebrate (seven of the “clean” animals) were brought by God to the Ark. Therefore, dinosaurs (land vertebrates) were represented on the Ark.
Forget science, it's just that simple to him.
More:
How Did Those Huge Dinosaurs Fit on the Ark?
Although there are about 668 names of dinosaurs, there are perhaps only 55 different “kinds” of dinosaurs. Furthermore, not all dinosaurs were huge like the brachiosaurus, and even those dinosaurs on the Ark were probably “teenagers” or young adults.
Creationist researcher John Woodmorappe has calculated that Noah had on board with him representatives from about 8,000 animal genera (including some now-extinct animals), or around 16,000 individual animals as a maximum number. When you realize that horses, zebras, and donkeys are probably descended from the horse-like “kind,” Noah did not have to carry two sets of each such animal. Also, dogs, wolves, and coyotes are probably from a single canine “kind,” so hundreds of different dogs were not needed.
..."The Bible is reliable in all areas, including its account of the Ark (and the worldwide catastrophic Flood). A Christian doesn’t have to have a blind faith to believe that there really was an Ark. What the Bible says about the Ark can even be measured and tested today.
There you have it. A group that teaches that the earth is only a few thousand years old, a group that teaches that dinosaurs roamed the earth with men and were on Noah's Ark.....gets treated with respect and given financial favors while education and social services go begging.
I am impressed with this part of an article from the Americans United for Separation of Church and State website.
Sinking Ship?: Kentucky “Ark Park” Faces Funding Shortfalls, Delayed Groundbreaking
The “Ark Park” is a classic case of state officials using bad fiscal policy to appease the Religious Right. Kentucky has committed more than $40 million in tax incentives to this project, which is being headed by a prominent fundamentalist Christian ministry that believes the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that dinosaurs and humans lived at the same time and that unicorns once existed – ideas utterly rejected by mainstream science.
Gov. Steve Beshear (D) has backed this project under the guise that it will create jobs. Maybe that’s true, but so far the state’s $40 million incentive package has not created a single useful thing for anyone.
Even if the “Ark Park” does eventually create jobs, the state is still wrong to be backing a fundamentalist religious organization. If AiG wants to build the park on its own, that’s just fine, but government should not be subsidizing a project like this.
I like very much what Rev. Barry Lynn of Americans United said in an earlier article:
“The state of Kentucky should not be promoting the spread of fundamentalist Christianity or any other religious viewpoint,” said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. “Let these folks build their fundamentalist Disneyland without government help.”
The state of Kentucky under a Democratic governor is giving a nod of approval to a religious theme park that will teach that the world is only a few thousand years old and that dinosaurs were on Noah's ark.
That is pretty pathetic.
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