Who's Afraid of Noah's Ark?

AlbertMohler.com ^ | December 7, 2010 | Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr.

[wmfights]

The Courier-Journal of Louisville editorialized that the project would amount to “creationist tourism” that would embarrass the state by featuring “a fundamentalist view resting on biblical inerrancy [that] indirectly promotes a religious dogma.”

[GeronL]

Is it using tax dollars?

No theme park should ever get tax dollars.

[bgill]

While I agree with you, it happens all the time. Tax breaks and incentives are given to companies to lure their business (and jobs) to a city. If some are getting their panties in a wad over a boat, then stipulate in the contract that no incentives will be used for that section of the park.

[wmfights]

No theme park should ever get tax dollars.

The state offers grants for developing real estate that then pays property taxes.

[flying_bullet]

Wife and I were talking about donating to the ark project last night.

If it's not true, what does the NYT have to worry about, right?

[GeronL]

The incentives are for any business not specifically for this. So that shouldn’t be a problem.

[GeronL]

Something that applies to all companies shouldn’t be a problem.

Whats next cutting taxes only for non-Christans?

[Non-Sequitur]

The proposed theme park is expected to attract 1.6 million visitors in its first year, bringing a $250 million annual economic impact within five years.

If the creationist museum isn't pulling in anywher near that then why should they believe the theme park will do better?

[RegulatorCountry]

We’ve got a mosque going up courtesy of federal grants at Ground Zero, but the New York Times is afraid of a Noah’s Ark replica in Kentucky.

Makes perfect sense. /s

[faucetman]

All games should be played with the existing rules applied to everyone equally. Don't like the rules? Then change them. In the mean time, you can not discriminate against Christians.

I think this is a great idea. i hope the funding is obtained regardless if it gets government help or not. As long as such a program exists I have no problem with a Christian group applying for it.

[MEGoody]

The editors asked, “Why stop with creationism? How about a Flat-Earth Museum? Or one devoted to the notion that the sun revolves around the Earth?”

If someone wants to start such a business, shouldn't they be able to? If it succeeds, good for them. If it fails, so be it. Why is this editor so afraid of someone starting a business?

[Matchett-PI]

“..self-appointed guardians of evolutionary theory.”~ Mohler, Jr.

“Which theory of evolution are you talking about?

“...What is the significance of such a theory? To address this question is to enter the field of epistemology.

A theory is a metascientific elaboration distinct from the results of observation, but consistent with them.

By means of it a series of independent data and facts can be related and interpreted in a unified explanation. A theory’s validity depends on whether or not it can be verified; it is constantly tested against the facts; wherever it can no longer explain the latter, it shows its limitations and unsuitability. It must then be rethought.

Furthermore, while the formulation of a theory like that of evolution complies with the need for consistency with the observed data, it borrows certain notions from natural philosophy.

And, to tell the truth, rather than the theory of evolution, we should speak of several theories of evolution.

On the one hand, this plurality has to do with the different explanations advanced for the mechanism of evolution, and on the other, with the various philosophies on which it is based.

Hence the existence of materialist, reductionist, and spiritualist interpretations. What is to be decided here is the true role of philosophy and, beyond it, of theology.

Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider _the spirit_ as emerging from the forces of living matter or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter are incompatible with the truth about man. Nor are they able to ground the dignity of the person. ...”

Excerpted from:

Theories of Evolution
John Paul II
Copyright (c) 1997 First Things 71 (March 1997): 28-29. Address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, October 22, 1996

05/25/2007 “http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1839540/posts?page=22#22

[flying_bullet]

Just as an aside - folks should see the security measures in place at the Creation Museum. Concrete barriers, multiple armed security guards. Those are visible. There are no doubt more. From what I can gather there have been numerous credible threats.

There's big money invested in evolution.

[Sybeck1]

I didn’t see any outcry on the Titantic museum in Branson.

[wmfights]

As long as such a program exists I have no problem with a Christian group applying for it.

Exactly right!

[wbarmy]

If somebody can get 1.6 million visitors a year for a Flat Earth museum, let em do it.

[wmfights]

Why is this editor so afraid of someone starting a business?

Because it challenges their humanist orthodoxy. It drives non believers up the wall that their confused view is not blindly accepted by all. Imagine the damage it does, to their world view, when children can walk inside a copy of Noah's Ark and see how large it was and that it could accommodate a large number of animals.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Just be fair and give the evolutionists a swamp somewhere to build a theme park to the big bang theory. It should bring in big bucks for the opening scene and then nothing thereafter but few of the attendees will ever again be heard complaining..........only silence.

[6SJ7]

Flood mythology is found in every ancient culture on the planet from American Indians to China. In every one of them, only a few humans survive and those humans try and save as many plants and animals as they can. Chances are good those myths are everywhere because there was a cataclysmic event in antediluvian history. Why the evolutionists are so bigoted in their beliefs is beyond me.

[Augustinian monk]

Well, building the Ark was controversial the first time around.