Creationists plan British theme park
The latest salvo in creationism's increasingly ferocious battle with evolution is about to be fired in Lancashire. Not in a fiery sermon preached from the pulpit, but in the form of a giant Christian theme park that will champion the book of Genesis and make a multi-media case that God created the world in seven days.
The AH Trust, a charity set up last year by a group of businessmen alarmed by the direction in which they see society heading, has identified a number of potential sites in the north west of England to build the £3.5m Christian theme park.
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The 5,000-capacity park will be the first of its kind in Britain, but not in the world. In Orlando, Florida, hundreds of thousands of visitors make pilgrimages to the Holy Land Experience, where they can see a bloodied Jesus forced to carry his cross by snarling Roman soldiers.
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If they weren't so scary, i'd be tempted to think that these creationists are kidding, it's just every time i read about them they're doing something even more ridiculous. As if i expect some day to read in the newspaper "Creationists: we were only kidding"
then i remember they're not, and get chills....
I live in Lancashire. I really don't think it will get built but if it does there's no way it will make any money. The AH Trust seem to be making the mistake of thinking the UK is just like the USA. Over here, creationists and fundamentalists get laughed at...
I just noticed the year on that... I just clicked on the link in the scienceblogs list of blogs (Go To/Choose Blog, top right) and got taken straight to this page!