Yes, A Really Lousy Week (for Creationism - Dr Dino Going Down)

Scientific American ^ | 8 April 2006

[balrog666]

Following up on my previous post about how creationists suffered a few setbacks, this news has also come to my attention: the creationist theme park Dinosaur Adventure Land, operated by the prominent evolution denier Dr. Dino (Kent Hovind) and the Creation Science Evangelism ministry, has just been shuttered by the authorities. All of this arises from the church's building without a permit back in 2002. (Here's the ministry's own account of the situation.)

Links are at source.

[balrog666]

Fake doctor/conman (Kent Hovind) is in trouble with the law once more.

Not exactly a surprise. Except to his deluded followers.

[balrog666]

The Pensacola News-Journal has the original story but it can't be posted here.

[aimhigh]

".... God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 1 Thess 2:11

Evolution is still a lie, built on supposition after theory after "might be".

[PatrickHenry]

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[js1138]

God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie...

Which God would that be? Sounds like the Lord of Lies, to me. Does this make any sense to anyone?

[CarolinaGuitarman]

I am deeply saddened.


No, wait, I'm not! :)

[Dimensio]

Evolution is still a lie,

Please support this claim with evidence.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Evolution is still a lie, built on supposition after theory after "might be"."

I'd be upset if I were you too. I'm not you, so I'm happy. :)

[Doctor Stochastic]

Note that Laura Callahan, (as well as Kent Hovind) has a fake degree along with David Edmondson. Diploman Mill link.

[AndyTheBear]

...evolution denier...

An allusion to "holocaust denier"? Maybe I am reading too much into your choice of words, but perhaps they say a little more then you wanted.

[Zeroisanumber]

Now, if they could only somehow get him to stop calling himself "Doctor".

[Quark2005]

The plea from Dr. Dino's website:

The County attorney Allison Rogers can stop this by simply dropping the case.

Sheriff Ron McNesby can simply refuse to help shut down the Lord’s Church. Hitler’s men should have refused his orders. George Bush told the Iraqi soldiers to refuse any orders to set oil wells on fire.

This is classic - you can't make this stuff up!

[js1138]

Nope.

[AndyTheBear]

I'd be upset if I were you too. I'm not you, so I'm happy. :)

Good for you. Science is about telling people what makes them happy after all.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

According to a follow-up, it's only the buildings that have been ordered closed. The outdoor parts are still open.

In any case, even if I don't hold with the beliefs of the people who run the park, I don't like to a place closed by court order.... Okay, it looks like the guy didn't get the proper permits.... But it doesn't say anything one way or the other about whether evolution, ID, young Earth creationism, or anything else is true or not.

I'm not sure the schadenfreude is appropriate in this case.

[Liberal Classic]

Personally, I think you ought to be able to build a dinosaur adventure land on your property without asking anyone's permission. However, that's not what the laws say today, and there's every reasonable expectation that Hovind should follow county building ordinances. Hovind has taken the "we're a church and exempt from the law" thing a bit too far before, which is why he's already in trouble with the IRS. Similarly, I don't like the IRS and I think we ought to get rid of it, but until we do I have to pay taxes and so does he.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Good for you. Science is about telling people what makes them happy after all."

No, it really isn't. That's the difference between science and theology.

[Virginia-American]

A poster on another website said that if it's razed, they can call it "Chicxulub Adventure Land"

[AndyTheBear]

No, it really isn't. That's the difference between science and theology.

So this is about theology for you.

[orionblamblam]

>"Chicxulub Adventure Land"

This somehow seems appropriate: