Which would be kind of amusing, if you didnt Google some of this stuff and see how often the people taking license and providing backstory pop up alongside scientific sources. AiG offers that it takes artistic license with some characters when the Bible falls short, and helps out with its own backstory to other narratives. You can show one to your friends, because a cubit goes for $19.99 a pop in the gift shop where, by the way, you dont have to be AiG president, chief executive officer and founder Ken Ham for your books to be displayed for purchase, but it seems to help.Ī closer look at even the bag your lunch came in giving new meaning to reading the fine print provides a deeper understanding of AiGs exhaustive explanations. If Noah protected the buoyancy of his ark by coating it with waterproofing pitch, the Ark Encounter is slathered with answers.Įven to questions you didnt know you had (how would polar bears be kept cold on the Ark?).Īnd if you dont understand the answer to, say, what is a cubit? No problem. The owners dont call themselves Answers in Genesis for nothing. And though it is big enough to house several space shuttle orbiters, there is no room for any doubt, either. The ark is the largest timber-frame structure in the world but it is so refined that you dont have to worry about picking up even a splinter. Now, that ought to put Kentucky on the map. But when you believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old, as AiG insists until the cows and centrosauruses come home, some mash-ups are required hence, dinos with Noah and the fam in Williamstown. No trolls and Odin here (the ark is strictly non-pagan) but the first set of animals I saw in a cage on AiGs ark were pterodactyls despite science teaching that dinosaurs and humans lived tens of millions of years apart. Thats why I can say, with certainty, its not a big leap from that Maelstrom to this flood. I went to the ark on opening day theres an ice-breaker for you to see it for myself. Its young-Earth-creationist cousin, the Creation Museum, is a little farther north. But if its mind-bending you want, you can feed your head closer to home with the new Ark Encounter, which opened last week.īuilt near Williamstown, Kentucky, the $100 million theme park (zipline to come) depicts the Answers in Genesis-approved, frozen-in-fundamentalism story of Noah and the great flood. Well, Maelstroms gone, retired several years ago for a new ∿rozen attraction. Its one of my fondest Disney memories: A dark, cool refuge, no lines and zero risk of arrest, with the bonus mind-bending. Not quite sure what the Norwegians were selling, but we rode it several times just to make sure we werent hallucinating. It featured the disembodied voice and eyes of Odin and ticked-off trolls toying with tourist-laden, flume-ride boats, which ended their adventure of course, where else next to an oil rig in the North Sea. (So did Bill Nye because we spotted him and his camera crew at both places.Until last week, the strangest theme park attraction I ever visited was the Maelstrom ride in the Norway exhibit at Epcot in Walt Disney World. With the extra hours it is possible to see both attractions in one day, which my parents and I did.
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