Creationist theme park seized by the IRS...

[BenBurch]

http://www.progressivepuppy.com/the_progressive_puppy/

[tyr_13]

I'm sure the 'making threats against investigators' and his claim that he is 'employed by God' got him real far.

I'm glad that article pointed out that he is a hypocrite as even the Bible says to pay your damn taxes.

[shadron]

Third time in a week I've gotten to use this quote:

“I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.”

-Robert T Bakker, ordained Pentecostal preacher and Harvard paleontologist
author of Dinosaur Heresies and Raptor Red.

(...even though I do approve, personally.)

[tyr_13]

Name the next new raptor after it and put it in the theme park. Say Jesus trained it to fetch rabbits and Jews.

[JoeyDonuts]

-Robert T Bakker, ordained Pentecostal preacher and Harvard paleontologist
author of Dinosaur Heresies and Raptor Red.

Any relation to good ol' Jim Bakker of the PTL? You know, the finest television network to ever grace the airwaves?

[shadron]

Any relation to good ol' Jim Bakker of the PTL? You know, the finest television network to ever grace the airwaves?

No - this is the guy who was the technical expert for the original Jurassic Park, and at least in part the inspiration for the main character - the paleontologist. He was a professor at Colorado U and Wyoming U, and the expert who mounted the T-Rex at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (http://www.grisda.org/colorado/images/04-11-14%20---%201-T.REX%20-%20best.JPG). He's been paleontological curator at the Denver and Houston museums.

[Rogue1stclass]

Rob Bakker (pronounced Bach-er) is one of the early "renegade" paleos who embraced the idea of active, warm-blooded dinosaurs. Some of his ideas are kind of out there, like sauropods with elephantine trunks, but he is a respected paleontologist in his own right, and in fact the paleo from Jurassic Park II was based on him.

Dinosaur Adventure Land is in my hometown and has been a peeve of mine since it opened. Parent's took kids to this place thinking it would be a fun-ucational time, and end up instead having Young Earth Creationism rammed down their throats. Seriously, you end up knowing less about these really cool animals then you knew when you went in.

Man, if I had the money, I'd buy this place and do right.

[TragicMonkey]

So....who wants to get together and buy this place? I think it would be fun.

Dinosaurs, representing science, have always been the natural enemies of religion. Let us depict that. Jesus fighting the dinosaurs. A T-Rex chewing on a medieval pope. A pack of raptors attacking the Council of Trent. Crusaders slaying hadrosaurs. Archbishop Laud shooting holy fire from his crozier and roasting nests of dimetrodons. Mary Magdalene riding on a captured pteranodon. Noah escaping the whale only to be menaced by kronosaurs. And it's not just Christianity, remember. Buddha wrestled with a stegosaurus. Mohammed rode into Medina on the back of an ankylosaurus. And didn't Ganesha lose his tusk in a confrontation with a brachiosaurus?

This could be a golden opportunity to edutain the masses like they've never been edutained before!

[slingblade]

So....who wants to get together and buy this place? I think it would be fun.

Oooh, I'm in as an employee! I'll run the gift shop. :D

[JoeTheJuggler]

I'm glad that article pointed out that he is a hypocrite as even the Bible says to pay your damn taxes.

Remember, they're literalists.

They'll happily pay any coins with Caesar's head on it to Caesar, but that's pretty much it!

[TragicMonkey]

Oooh, I'm in as an employee! I'll run the gift shop. :D

I'll be Lead Imagineer! My responsibilities include Quality, Lack of Quality, Buzzword Generation, and Pickpocketing the Customers. I will sublimate the synergy and make it team-positive to paradigmize our forward-go!

[slingblade]

I'll be Lead Imagineer! My responsibilities include Quality, Lack of Quality, Buzzword Generation, and Pickpocketing the Customers. I will sublimate the synergy and make it team-positive to paradigmize our forward-go!

Gee whiz, I was just gonna sell bibles dipped in faux dino crap. Your job sounds so much special-er than mine. :(

[CyberCecil]

Gee whiz, I was just gonna sell bibles dipped in faux dino crap. Your job sounds so much special-er than mine. :(

Even better, chocolate bibles filled with nuts.

[Silly Green Monkey]

Make it dark chocolate filled with pecans and I'll buy ten.

[CyberCecil]

Make it dark chocolate filled with pecans and I'll buy ten.

Mmmm... dark chocolate blasphemy. :drool: Melts in your mouth, not in Hell.

[Soapy Sam]

I've always supposed the Sam Niell part in Jurassic Park was based more on Jack Horner, but I suppose there's more than a touch of Bakker there too.

Indeed this link says both were involved in JP as consultants, but supports the Horner version.
http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/famouspaleontologists/p/jackhorner.htm

So- back on topic, is the park now US Gov property? What will they do with it?

[ponderingturtle]

Mmmm... dark chocolate blasphemy. :drool: Melts in your mouth, not in Hell.

This so needs Chocolate Jesus.

[GreNME]

This so needs Chocolate Jesus.

When the weather gets rough and it's whiskey in the shade, it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane. He flows like the big muddy but that's OK, pour him over ice cream for a nice parfait.

[Skeptic Guy]

Oooh, can I stand in the front hall selling plastic Jesus's and singing:

Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I have my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
I could go a hundred miles an hour
Long as I got the almighty power
Glued up there with my pair of fuzzy dice

[quixotecoyote]

No - this is the guy who was the technical expert for the original Jurassic Park, and at least in part the inspiration for the main character - the paleontologist. He was a professor at Colorado U and Wyoming U, and the expert who mounted the T-Rex at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (http://www.grisda.org/colorado/images/04-11-14%20---%201-T.REX%20-%20best.JPG). He's been paleontological curator at the Denver and Houston museums.

Plus, Raptor Red was a really fun read. I'd recommend it.

[shadron]

Plus, Raptor Red was a really fun read. I'd recommend it.

I was surprised to learn he'd also written Dactyls! Dragons of the Air, Raptor Pack and Maximum Triceratops. Gotta go look them up.

[Questioninggeller]

http://www.progressivepuppy.com/the_progressive_puppy/

It was already mentioned in this thread (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=149737) a few days ago. You can click on the Kent Hovind (http://forums.randi.org/tags.php?tag=kent+hovind) tag for more.

[One Skunk Todd]

So- back on topic, is the park now US Gov property? What will they do with it?

Combine it with the Mustang Ranch and call it "Fun For the Whole Family!"?