Not So Harmless

The folks over at Creation Science Evangelism are coming up with answers to some of those awkward questions that arise when you believe the bible is the word of God that must be taken literally.

So. How did marsupials get to Australia? Well, according to CSE, once Noah released the animals on Mount Ararat, natural instincts and climatic conditions determined how the redistribution of the animal population took place. An immediate consequence of the worldwide flood was a brief but severe ice age which locked ocean water into vast ice fields. This lowered ocean levels and created a land bridge to Australia.

Okaaaaaaaay... let me say a few things about the Koala. They are not travelling animals. The Koala has an unusually small brain. It rests motionless for about 18 to 20 hours a day, sleeping most of that time and lives almost entirely on eucalyptus leaves. And if things get a bit stressful they get chlamydia.

They did not hop off the ark in Northern Turkey and roam to New South Wales in a small herd eating a convenient trail of long-disappeared eucalyptus. With cock pox.

Here they are offering advice for someone with concern for her young niece being taught evolution in school:

Help, my niece is being taught evolution!

There are essentially two things that you can do from here. You can encourage the isolation of your niece, and get her out of that environment, or you can insulate her and prepare her for that environment. Isolation can be done through private Christian schooling, or even home schooling. Ministries like ours exist to help you insulate your children. Our desire is to get them ready to face this world and the things it will confront them with.

The CSE ministry was established in 1989 by Kent Hovind. In 2001 Hovind started Dinosaur Adventure Land, a young earth creationist theme park in Pensacola, Florida. The park depicts humans and dinosaurs co-existing in the last 4,000-6,000 years. According to the IRS, Hovind's theme park and merchandise sales earned more than $5 million USD from 1999 to March 2004.

Hovind is currently serving a ten-year term in Edgefield Federal Correctional Institution, South Carolina for 58 tax offenses, obstructing federal agents and related charges.