MAGA still says T Rex rode Noah's Ark

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Dinosaurs on Noah’s ark? A MAGA theme park clings to creationism
Kentucky's Ark Encounter turns 10, and its founder Ken Ham is as bitter as ever

By Amanda Marcotte
Senior Writer
Published July 10, 2026 6:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) Creationism hasn’t generated much coverage in the mainstream media over the past decade. The days when fundamentalists challenged scientists to “debates” over evolution now seem quaint in the era of Donald Trump, whose belief is that you never need to persuade when beating your opponents into submission is an option. Under the president’s leadership, the right has shifted from arguing about dinosaur bones and carbon dating to making more blunt demands for book bans and even stripping women of the right to vote.

This is not to say that evangelicals’ attachment to creationism has gone away, even if it has faded from mainstream discourse. This week, one of the most elaborate and ridiculous bits of Christian right propaganda, Kentucky’s Ark Encounter, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Readers who might be unaware of this facility should imagine an amusement park minus the fun and whimsy.

The centerpiece of the spectacle is what purports to be a full-size replica of Noah’s Ark, complete with dinosaurs living among humans, because that’s the only way fundamentalists can justify their belief that the Earth is only 6,000 years old. The anniversary’s festivities include hellfire-and-damnation preachers, a play about prisoners of war in World War II and a speech by the guy who owns Hobby Lobby, a program that apparently passes for children’s entertainment in white evangelical circles.

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In many ways, the silliness of creationism is the point. I recently discovered this firsthand, after I covered evangelical podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey in a column and on my YouTube show “Standing Room Only.” Most of my focus was on how she promotes a view of Christianity that is overtly hostile to empathy, so much so that she even wrote a book titled “Toxic Empathy.” But in her outraged response, Stuckey became most emotional over an aside in which I mocked her for denying that dinosaurs existed millions of years before humans. ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/07/10/dinosaurs-on-noahs-ark-a-maga-theme-park-clings-to-creationism/

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1. They never got past the Monkey Trial era

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2. I had a creationist teacher as a kid who swore they had the technology back then to recreate extinct animals

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3. The only way all the animals in the world

could have been saved is by being able to save DNA,. Anyway that is the Ancient Astronaut theory. Ancient Astronaut Therosts say Yes