Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino compares Florida to Kentucky: “State should at least profit from its ignorance.”
Maybe it’s time for Florida to cash in on its vast reservoir of ignorance.
That’s what Kentucky is doing.
Kentucky’s giving $37 million in tax breaks to a theme park run by a religious organization that teaches that the Earth is 6,000 years old and was created in six days.
The “Ark Encounter” theme park, which features a giant Noah’s Ark, is being built by a Christian ministry called Answers in Genesis, which also runs the nearby Creation Museum, a place where tourists can see dinosaurs with riding saddles and attend lectures on that crackpot philosophy masquerading as science, something better known as evolution.
Shouldn’t Florida have this? At least we’d be creating jobs and skimming tax revenue from all this pre-Enlightenment nuttiness.
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The bill, sponsored by Sen. Steve Wise, R-Jacksonville, would change the way evolution is taught by requiring public school teachers to also present a “critical analysis of the scientific theory of evolution.”
Wise, an evolution critic who serves as chairman of the Senate Education Pre-K-12 Committee, would be better off channeling his religious zeal into a Garden of Eden flume ride (Look out for that snake!).
