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Noah's Ark theme park is impressive, but its 'facts' don't hold water
Miami Herald ^ | July 16, 2016 | Tom Eblen

Posted on 07/16/2016 2:10:20 PM PDT by EveningStar

Noah's Ark replica made of 3.1 million board feet of timber

Creationist theme park tries, fails to make theology scientific

Many Christians don't see conflict between faith, evolution

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 300manyearsoflabor; answersingenesis; arkencounter; arkreplica; christians; noahsarc; noahsark; thatsshowbiz; themepark
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1 posted on 07/16/2016 2:10:21 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Given that there is nothing else of importance to be presented in the news, I would expect, well, a flood of such stories, from people who think they Noah lot about ancient history.


2 posted on 07/16/2016 2:16:26 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: EveningStar

Takes a lot of faith to believe in evolution.


3 posted on 07/16/2016 2:19:55 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: castlegreyskull

nicely played.


4 posted on 07/16/2016 2:24:49 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: castlegreyskull

One thing (well there are many) to ask an Evo is when did those molecules vibrating in a soupy mass decide to form the human body? I remember reading one Evo on just the evolution of the eye - it was nerve endings that were stimulated by the sun that caused eyeballs to form. (yep) - so explain then how they managed to survive blind.


5 posted on 07/16/2016 2:25:35 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SkyDancer

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Liberals use the word “science” much like “racist”. Merely invoking the words are meant to stop debate and signify that the liberal has won the argument. Never mind that there are a multitude of practical reasons why evolutionary theory makes no sense, and indeed requires vastly more faith than belief in a Creator.


6 posted on 07/16/2016 2:32:44 PM PDT by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: allblues

Thank you - the more evolutionists try to explain it the more they twist themselves into a knot. I remember as a kid listening to William Conrad as a narrator on a show about evolution (think a CD) where one of his great statements was: “... and after millions of years of evolution” ... no wonder my folks home schooled me.


7 posted on 07/16/2016 2:36:38 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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8 posted on 07/16/2016 2:41:50 PM PDT by stormer
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To: EveningStar

Many “Christians” don’t see any problem with rampant abortion, convenience divorce, or unnatural sex and marriage. The last thing they want to hear about is God judging the world.


9 posted on 07/16/2016 2:45:43 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: stormer

Your posting of an infantile cartoon is hardly exemplary of erudite rhetoric, logic, argumentation or explication.


10 posted on 07/16/2016 2:51:26 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: EveningStar

Fact one: the ark’s physical dimensions indicate a basic seaworthy construction.


11 posted on 07/16/2016 2:52:45 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: SkyDancer

Well, their response is something starts out along the lines of “over billions and billions and billions of years . . .”

Ask them what is the growth of the human population ever 40 years or so. I would say it is around 25% (probably a bit higher). Then ask them to divide 3600 years by 40. There you get 90 generations since when many think the flood happened. Take 6 people (3 couples that were still having children). Get an excel spreadsheet in row 1 put the number 6. in cell A:2, write =A1*1.25. in A3 write =A2. Go down to row 90 (generations) repeating this. You get the number of about several billion (people).

What I am essentially doing is simulating the population growth over the centuries.

Now go back to the evolutionist who explain everything slowly changed over millions and billions of years.

Now think about this. If we were around for perhaps 50,000 years and we follow the same idea of what the recorded generation growth has been for the last couple thousands of years would there only be a few billion people are well beyond trillions and trillions of people. The number is so high, I would wonder if we even have a name for it. I doubt there would be any standing room left on earth. Try following the same population growth model for several billion years.

If nothing else, the current population shows strong evidence that there was at least a massive die off of all life on the planet.


12 posted on 07/16/2016 2:53:37 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: chajin

Here’s one good reason the ark is relevant:

God destroyed the earth before because of wickedness, and just be thankful He’s giving people time to repent before He does it again... this time by fire, not by flood.


13 posted on 07/16/2016 2:54:42 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

As you know I was making fun o this statement in the article: “Many Christians don’t see conflict between faith, evolution”

The same can easily be said about the evolutionists. They constantly change their conclusions when they are proven wrong. However, the Bible has never been proven wrong, so I don’t ever need to adjust my faith to a new conclusion every year or so.


14 posted on 07/16/2016 2:58:03 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: castlegreyskull

One thing too I usually ask is: if the human population just increased enough to overcome disease and war and accidents say at .5 percent, how many people would be on earth today if modern humanity goes back just a million years.


15 posted on 07/16/2016 3:00:04 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: EveningStar

This is the article my extreme liberal sister in law posted on this subject in Facebook: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/07/14/the-problems-with-ark-encounter-liberal-redneck-edition/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Look at the comment section. It is eye popping how hate filled liberals are.


16 posted on 07/16/2016 3:00:44 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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17 posted on 07/16/2016 3:00:48 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: castlegreyskull
Takes a lot of faith to believe in evolution.

I don't know, obama claims he has evolved, I look at him and I can see the pond scum and monkey dung in his eyes.

18 posted on 07/16/2016 3:01:27 PM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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To: SkyDancer

I think we would flood out the surface area of Jupiter


19 posted on 07/16/2016 3:01:52 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: SkyDancer
Have them watch this, Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology then ask:

1) How these developed
2) How they continue to function
3) Why they continue to function

The sad thing is that Drew Berry, who produced these astounding animations, has not asked these questions himself. Instead, he felt compelled to genuflect at the Shrine of Darwin at the beginning of the video.

20 posted on 07/16/2016 3:06:41 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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