Creationist Ken Ham installed a new display featuring dinosaurs and humans battling giants in a gladiator-like arena at the Noah’s Ark attraction in Kentucky.
Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis and the Ark Encounter exhibit, tweeted an image of the new diorama on Thursday.
Exquisite design by @ArkEncounter artists for new Diorama depicting wicked population in the pre-Flood world to be installed @ArkEncounter pic.twitter.com/4JHQiTEWbG
— Ken Ham (@aigkenham) February 16, 2017
In the first image, the diorama portrays a dinosaur entering the arena on the far right, a giant on the left apparently about to spear a human and a crowd cheering on the fictitious scene.
Ham, known for following a literal interpretation of the Bible, believes the Earth is roughly 6,000 years old and that humans existed alongside dinosaurs. In his Ark Encounter exhibit, Ham depicts Noah’s Ark as a vessel that carried dinosaurs during the “Great Flood,” which the bible states happened roughly 4,300 years ago.
Scientists estimate that dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, or a good 64.8 million years before the first homo sapiens, who showed up in the evolutionary scene roughly 200,000 years ago.
Unsurprisingly, folks on Twitter found Ham’s idea rather amusing:
@aigkenham @ArkEncounter these ark idiots always forget there were many cultures recording history at that time and no one mentions a flood.
— oddmanout (@oddmanout) February 17, 2017
@aigkenham @ArkEncounter can you add these to the theme park so the kids can have a blast? please please please daddy pic.twitter.com/eZuQd0M2Zb
— Moad (@moadaldabbagh) February 16, 2017
@aigkenham @ArkEncounter . I have to admire you Mister Ham. Very few people could get away with a scam like you have going.
— wilbporter (@guitarbuilder57) February 17, 2017
@aigkenham @ArkEncounter Imagine what someone with actual intelligence could do with the money you blow creating depictions of these lies.
— David Ermold (@DErmold) February 17, 2017
@aigkenham @ArkEncounter next up, my four year old niece will explain quantum mechanics to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Sadly people believe it.
— Baby Hands (@donnietheliar) February 17, 2017
@aigkenham @ArkEncounter Okay, at what point did you break into my house and steal my 4th grade doodles?
— Alexander Vornoff (@DrAVornoff) February 17, 2017
@aigkenham @ArkEncounter Dedicate your life to helping people instead of wasting time and money on falsehoods and fantasies.
— MooseCW (@MooseCW) February 17, 2017
@aigkenham @ArkEncounter this is so freakin hysterical. Only you need to add how the confederates beat back the alien spacecraft. LMAO.
— Baby Hands (@donnietheliar) February 17, 2017
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[HuffPo] Featured image via YouTube
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