This is an artist's rendition from the website of the creationist "science" museum about to open in Kentucky.  Note the dinos entering the ark.

Kentucky Fried Dinosaurs?

I could not resist using a Fox News cite.  Links in the article will take you to the museum site.

It gets worse.  http://www.myrtlebea...

There were dinosaurs of every kind aboard Noah's ark. Some dinosaurs managed to hang around until just a few hundred years ago.

By the way, this is interesting:

...given the Ark's reported dimensions (300 cubits by 50 cubits by 30 cubits ? Gen. 6:15), its displacement would have been something like 40,000 tons. A rectangular solid of the Ark's dimensions would have a displacement of about 45,000 tons; since the Ark had curved sides rather than straight, that 45-kiloton figure is a maximum upper limit.

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According to John Woodmorappe's book Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study, published by the Institute for Creation Research, the Ark carried a total of 5,500 tons of living animals who, collectively, consumed 1/30 of their body mass worth of food every day. Very well; by Woodmorappe's scenario, the Ark's passengers ate (1/30 of 5,500 tons) a bit over 183 tons of food per day. Multiply that figure by 365 days in a year, and you get a bit over 66,910 tons of food for the year-long duration of the Flood. Add in the weight of the animals themselves, not to mention the weight of the Ark itself, and we see that the Ark's payload was something well in excess of 70,000 tons.

And that's not even counting dinosaurs.  See why Biblical literalism is a problem?

"Wait a minute.  How did he go and get the polar bears, and then the penguins?  They're at different poles.  And these animals lived all over the world. He went to all the jungles?  How did he get there?  There weren't any planes."

Reading ancient history has become a new interest of mine.  One problem with the 6,000 years figure -- much of the geography/archeology of the Old Testament reflects what was known of the world at around 700 BCE.  All these places that the ancients supposedly traveled to or lived in did not exist at the times ascribed to them.  So the 6,000 year figure isn't even good Bible history.  Unless you buy into the last refuge of the creationists -- God intentionally deceived us by making up all this scientific "evidence."

  1And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

  2Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

  3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

In the follow-up chapter to the first version, Noah was suppposed to take seven of the clean beasts.  Oh, and those pesky fowl.  Does Ken Ham realize that there were Pterodactyls?  And a lot of other really big birds?  http://en.wikipedia.... 

So when you are calculating the weights on the ark, do you use seven or two for the clean beasts?

Here's the cite to Genesis Chapter 6 -- http://www.biblegate... -- which at the end uses the "two" version.

For all theology fans everywhere, make sure you visit the Bible done in Legos.  Here's the Flood story.  http://www.thebrickt... 

And here's God (I bet you wondered what He looked like) talking to a puzzled Noah:

I'm banking on whatever,whoever created the universe having a great sense of humor, or I am screwed.

You can see the same sort of "magical" thinking in creationist theory as in war planning.  To illustrate, here are some of the things that will be depicted in the new Kentucky creationist museum.

[V]isitors will see a tyrannosaurus rex pursuing Adam and Eve after their fall from grace. "That's the real terror that Adam's sin unleashed," visitors will be warned.

And where is the support for this museum coming from?  Ken Ham, the driving force behind the museum, says:

"Since President Bush's re-election we have been getting more membership applications than we can handle,'' said Mr Ham, who expects not just the devout, but also the curious, to flock through the turnstiles.

The parallel to Iraq?  If you don't like reality, create your own.

Dr Falwell visited AiG's USA headquarters and toured the Creation Museum construction site. He then featured the museum in his National Liberty Journal (March 2004), expressing his strong support for the project.

`The museum is located within one day's drive of two-thirds of America's population.  This will make it possible for Liberty University and hundreds of Christian schools to bring classes for a one-day learning experience at the museum.  I predict that this Creation Museum will be visited by millions, and may very well play a major role in bringing many churches of the world back to a strong stand on biblical creationism.'

What can I say about the participation of one of Virginia's most noted institutions in this ham-handed version of science.