Proposal for Religious Theme Park to Be Unveiled

Gov. Steve Beshear has scheduled a press conference for Wednesday to unveil plans for a religious theme park in the northern Kentucky city of Williamstown. Beshear will be joined by representatives from Answers in Genesis, operators of the Creation Museum, at the 9:30 a.m. EST press conference in the Capitol to announce construction of the "Ark Encounter" theme park. The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Courier-Journal reported Tuesday that the proposal involves a full-scale wooden ark that would include associated museums, theaters, amenities, event venues and outdoor parking. Preliminary indications are that the attraction could draw as many as 1.6 million guests per year and would cost $24.5 million to build. The Creation Museum, which opened three years ago, has drawn more than 720,000 visitors.

There have been many scientific discoveries in the last 15 years or so supporting Intelligent Design.

Creation Scientists and Abiogenesists have pretty much the same evidence, but different worldviews.

The extreme complexity of a cell negates any unobserved conjecture of abiogenesis claiming to be science.

“Even more amazing, each cell is encoded with addresses, routing directions, and instructions for assembling into one of 200 cells types.
In essence, the living cell is a tiny, self-sustaining biological factory.
Imagine discovering an unmanned space station that 1) manufacturers the equipment it needs to probe deep space, 2) monitors damage done to it by asteroids, 3) repairs the damage, 4) constructs its own spare parts, 4) makes copies of itself and 5) directs those copies in an intergalactic network to optimize exploration. Would any straight-thinking person reason it to be the product of an unguided, haphazard process? Hardly.

And yet the engineering of the biological cell is equally astonishing—down to its most fundamental component, DNA.

COMPLEX SPECIFIED INFORMATION DNA is the famous double-helix structure that contains the instructions for life. Functioning like the hard disk on your computer, DNA stores the software that controls the construction and maintenance of biological systems.

Cell instructions are written using a chemical “alphabet” of four base molecules—adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T)—segmented according to functional units called genes. The complete code consists of hundreds to tens of thousands of genes that, in turn, consist of thousands to hundreds of thousands of letters. Even the smallest organism requires nearly one million molecules to “spell out” all of the necessary instructions.
Each molecule attaches to the strand in identical fashion; which means that the DNA sequence, like letters in a sentence, is not determined by its chemistry.

As Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is not reducible to the chemical reactions between ink and paper, neither is the “complex specified information” (CSI) of DNA a product of chemical laws. That leaves two options: blind chance or design.

Consider the simplest life form, a bacterium—the odds of its million-molecule-long instruction coming about by trial-and-error is about one in 10 (to the) 600,000(th power). If written in standard notation, that’s a number big enough to fill 300 pages in a book!”
~ http://www.breakpoint.org/features-columns/archive/1224-the-witness-of-creation-

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