The Skeptical Inquirer has a review online about "Dr." Kent Hovind's
Dinosaur Adventure Land creationist theme park in Florida.
From the article:
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The proselytizing is very carefully scripted. Such a script is
necessary because the connections between the games and activities and
biblical doctrine are virtually nonexistent. The lesson signs are
usually too high for any but the tallest of children to read, and the
kids probably wouldn’t read them anyway. The guides are always there,
always polite and always present, repeating the message. The message
needs to be emphasized in this way because the items in the science
center and museum are so scattered and diffuse that they never really
add up to an effective argument. Here you will find some confounding
assertions about granite and polonium halos; there a sign calls Darwin
a liar. Here’s a display telling you that sea monsters are real; there
a beach ball floats on a shaft of air generated by a fan. Curatorially
speaking, the place is a disaster.
Dinosaur Adventure Land is just a playground tricked out with dinosaur
dressage to attract an audience that can then be enticed, seduced, and
eventually duped into accepting superstitions, pseudoscience, and
plain nonsense passed off with a patina of both scientific and
religious authority.
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Read it at http://www.csicop.org/si/2004-11/hovind.html
J. Spaceman
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