[general_re]

Mr. Hovind did not want to discuss the I.R.S. investigation, saying only, "I don't have any tax obligations."

Auditopteryx strikes again...

[general_re]

Plink.

[cyborg]

This is going to be a good thread! going to get my adult beverage and cold pizza

[MegaSilver]

Creationism is one thing. Intellectual dishonesty (i.e., still insisting that the world is only a few thousand years old) is quite another.

[general_re]

...38,000 people had visited his park, at $7 a head.

That's a gross of $266,000. Plus who-knows-how-much from sales of books, videos, souvenirs, lecture fees, and so forth. Sure must be nice to not "have any tax obligations"...

[Central Scrutiniser]

Well, freedom means that the ignorant can go to Mr. Hovind's park and live in their fantasy world. Oh well.

[The Radical Capitalist]

Where's the "Oh, Jeez...not the sh!t again" guy?

[Buck W.]

There is a similar attraction in Glen Rose, TX, south of Dallas. I believe it is called a creationist museum.

[Wacka]

Don't have to pay taxes when you are bankrupt!

[Ichneumon]

Hovind: "You're missing 98 percent of the population if you only go the intellectual route."

Man, you just can't make this stuff up...

[Ichneumon]

"We've been to museums, discovery centers, where you have to sit there and take the evolutionary stuff," Mr. Passmore said. "It feels good for them to finally hear it in a public place, something that reinforces their beliefs."

And hey, "feeling good" hearing whatever "reinforces your beliefs" is what it's all about, eh?

Gag.

[Ichneumon]

Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, which tracks creationist programs, said traditional creationists like Mr. Hovind had in fact given up on building intellectual credibility years ago.

Yet another "more true than the way they intended it" announcement.

[Ichneumon]

At Dinosaur Adventure Land, visitors can make their own Grand Canyon replica with sand and read a sign deriding textbooks for teaching that the Colorado River formed the canyon over millions of years: "This is clearly not possible. The top of the Grand Canyon is 4,000 feet higher than where the river enters the canyon! Rivers do not flow up hill!"

Then hey, how does that river get through that canyon today, anyway? Boggle.

Plus, Hovind has clearly never heard of plate tectonics and rising strata. Sheesh. They're clearly presenting the "creation" part, but where's the "science" part?

[Junior]

Well, on the plus side, when the fundamentalist Moslems finally conquer the U.S., it won't be a major cultural shock to these folks.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Instead of Disney land they could have visited the (most pleonastically and reduntantly named) The La Brea Tar Pits. Then they could have asked Hovind why the dire wolf and mastodon fossils are layered so neatly in the tar. Also, what did the Mastodons browse on while sailing with the various animals. Were there enough mammoths to feed the sabretooths for a month or so?