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DRlIbc You===Cryptozoology===[[Image:DAL-CreationMuseum2.jpg|thumb|right|Exhibit in DAL've hit s Creation Museum showing photographs and media reports of alleged "modern dinosaurs."]]Dinosaur Adventure Land also extends into the ball out realm of [[Wikipedia:cryptozoology|cryptozoology]]. As the name suggests, the park! Incredible!'s main emphasis is on dinosaurs. Hovind believes that dinosaurs did not go extinct millions of years ago; that stories of "dragons" in mythology are actually references to dinosaurs; and that reported creatures like the [[Wikipedia:Loch Ness Monster|Loch Ness Monster]] and [[Wikipedia:Mokele-mbembe|Mokele-mbembe]] are in fact relict specimens. Most of the examples offered as evidence have been debunked for decades, like the photo of a rotted "plesiosaur" carcass caught in 1977 by Japanese trawler ''[[Wikipedia:Zuiyo Maru|Zuiyo Maru]]'', now widely believed to be a basking shark. The Park is unclear, however, on how the discovery of living dinosaurs might undermine the theory of evolution, which does not address the extinction of dinosaurs.
MuaEMh Great thinking===Science Center===The largest structure on the Dinosaur Adventure Land property is the three-story Science Center. Because of Hovind's failure to obtain a building permit (see [[#Legal troubles|below]]), the Science Center has been closed since April 2006. The bookstore, previously housed in the Science Center, has been moved to the Hovinds' private home. Before its closure, the building featured a "Fossil Dig Pit" at the bottom of an open-air atrium. The stairways were lined with various other exhibits, most of which either attempted to disprove mainstream scientific thought or applied Biblical analogies to basic scientific concepts. Some of the activities have been moved outdoors and are still included on the DAL tour. One such exhibit is labeled "That River Didn't Make That Canyon!!! That really breaks " It attempts to show how the [[Wikipedia:Grand Canyon|Grand Canyon]] was not formed by the [[Wikipedia:Colorado River|Colorado River]] over millions of years, but rather by the Biblical [[Wikipedia:Deluge (mythology)|Deluge]]. Children are invited to fill a metal trough with water from a spigot and observe how, after enough water has built up behind a pile of sand, a rivulet will break through and form a miniature "canyon." Tour guides also note that the point where the Colorado River enters the canyon is higher than where it exits. They assert that "evolutionists" believe that the river must have "flowed uphill for millions of years" to create the canyon, though this is not the accepted scientific explanation of [[Wikipedia:Geology of the Grand Canyon area#Creation of the Grand Canyon|how the mold!Grand Canyon was formed]].
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[[Image:DinoAdventureLand.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Dinosaur Adventure Land entrance with Creation Museum (left) and Science Center, both closed since 2006.]]
'''Dinosaur Adventure Land''' (DAL) is a [[Wikipedia:Young Earth creationism|Young Earth Creationist]] theme park located at 5800 [[Old Palafox Road]]. It was created in [[2001]] by evangelist [[Kent Hovind]], in whose back yard the park sits, as part of his [[Christian Science Evangelism]] ministry. Hailing itself as "the place where dinosaurs and the Bible meet," the park presents a number of science exhibits and activities that depict dinosaurs and men living together and attempt to disprove evolution and other scientific concepts that conflict with a literal interpretation of the Bible.[http://www.writemyessay.biz/ write my essay]
The park's [[#Legal troubles|legal troubles]] have been tied to those of Hovind himself, who failed to obtain proper permits during construction and was convicted of tax fraud for deliberately circumventing the law regarding the reporting of revenue and payment of employees. The park is still operated by other members of the Hovind family and their ministry, though several of the buildings have been shut down by [[Escambia County]] authorities.
==Creationism & beyond==
{{cquote|We believe and teach that the Bible is literally true and scientifically accurate. God made this world in six literal 24-hour days about 6,000 years ago. Dinosaurs were just big reptiles that lived with Adam and Eve. Noah took them on the ark. (Probably babies!) People killed most of them after the flood. (They called them dragons in those days.) There could still be a few small ones still alive today (like [http://overnightessay.com/blog/2010/05/20/the-mystery-of-the-loch-ness-monster-is-absolutely-exposed/ Loch Ness] or [http://www.professay.com/ custom essays]).|20px|20px|Sign at entrance to Dinosaur Adventure Land}}BeMAUj AKAIK you===Hovind Theory===Dinosaur Adventure Land promotes a specific version of [[Wikipedia:Young Earth Creationism|Young Earth Creationism]] (YEC) developed by [[Kent Hovind]] and known as "the Hovind Theory."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://shopping.drdino.com/view_item.php?id=445|date=2002|publisher=CSE Ministry|last=Hovind|first=Kent|title=Part 6, The Hovind Theory}}</ref> The theory includes a literal reading of the Biblical account of [[Wikipedia:Noah|Noah]]: Noah's family and two of every "[[Wikipedia:Created kind|kind]]" of animal (including dinosaurs<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chick.com/information/authors/hovind.asp#testimony|accessdate=2006-10-06|title=Kent Hovind's testimony on Chick.com|publisher=Chick.com}}</ref>) safely boarded the [[Wikipedia:Noah've got s ark|Ark]] before the planet was bombarded by icy meterorites. The resulting "super-cold snow" fell near the poles, burying the mammoths standing up. Ice on the North and South pole cracked the crust of the earth releasing the [[Wikipedia:Flood geology|fountains of the deep]], which in turn caused certain ice age effects, namely the glacier effects. Also this made "the earth wobble around" and collapsed the [[Wikipedia:Vapor canopy|canopy]] that Hovind believes previously surrounded the earth, causing a [[Wikipedia:Hyperbaric oxygen therapy|hyperbaric chamber]] effect that enabled the answer long lifespans of men described in one!Genesis.
===Scientific inaccuracies===
The exhibits and tour guides at Dinosaur Adventure Land employ various techniques to advance the Hovind Theory. The phrase "evolution" is used as a catch-all phrase for any scientific knowledge that conflicts with a literal six-day creation, including theories of [[Wikipedia:abiogenesis|abiogenesis]] and disciplines such as geology, chemistry and cosmology. Scientific viewpoints are misrepresented, often by citing a variety of debunked hoxes and obsolete theories (like [[Wikipedia:Piltdown Man|Piltdown Man]] and Haeckel's [[Wikipedia:recapitulation theory|recapitulation theory]]) as currently accepted by the scientific community.
===Conspiracy theories===
[[Image:DAL-FossilDigPit.jpg|thumb|right|A "Fossil Dig Pit" in the now-closed Science Center]]
[[Image:DAL-CreationMuseum1.jpg|thumb|right|A tyrannosaur sculpture seems to burst through the front of the Creation Museum.]]
===Creation Museum===
According to the IRS, Hovind's theme park and merchandise sales earned more than $5 million from 1999 to March 2004.<ref name="begins">{{cite news | url= | title=Evangelist's trial begins: Dinosaur Adventure Land owner, wife face 58 counts of tax fraud| publisher=Pensacola News Journal |date=October 18, 2006 | first=Angela | last=Fail | accessdate = }}</ref> About half of that income went to employees who were salaried or were paid hourly wages. The government believes that grew to the point of earning $2 million a year.<ref>{{cite news | url= | title=Hard to believe a man with a Ph.D didn't know of a basic tax law | publisher=Pensacola News Journal | date= November 3, 2006 | first=Mark | last=O'Brien | accessdate = 2006-11-03}}</ref>
Hovind and his wife paid no taxes on the revenue from the park. On [[July 11]], [[2006]], Hovind was charged in the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida]] with twelve counts of willful failure to collect, account for, and pay over Federal income taxes and FICA taxes under {{usc|26|7202}}, forty-five counts of knowingly structuring transactions in Federally-insured financial institutions to evade the reporting requirements of {{usc|31|5313(a)}}, in violation of {{usc|31|5324}}, {{usc|18|2}} and 31 C.F.R. sec. 103.11, and one count of corruptly endeavoring to obstruct and impede the administration of the internal revenue laws under {{usc|26|7212}}.<ref>Indictment, ''United States of America v. Kent E. Hovind and Jo D. Hovind'', U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Pensacola Division, case no. 3:06CR83/MCR (dated July 11, 2006; filed at 12:55 pm, July 11, 2006) (hereinafter "Indictment").</ref><ref name="arrested">{{cite news | url= | title=Evangelist arrested on federal charges | publisher=Pensacola News Journal | date= 14 July 2006| first=Michael | last=Stewart | accessdate = }}</ref> Twelve of the charges were for failing to pay employee-related taxes, totaling $473,818, and 45 of the charges were for evading reporting requirements by making multiple cash withdrawals just under the $10,000 reporting requirement (a technique known as "[[Wikipedia:Smurfing (crime)|smurfing]]"). The withdrawals, totaling $430,500, were made in 2001 and 2002.<ref name="arrested" /> Jo Hovind, his co-defendant wife, faced 44 charges.<ref>{{cite news | url= | title=Evangelist's trial postponed| publisher=[[Pensacola News Journal]] | date= 1 September 2006| first=Michael | last=Stewart | accessdate = }}</ref>
*[http://www.dinosauradventureland.com/ www.DinosaurAdventureLand.com] - Official website
*[http://www.drdino.com/ www.DrDino.com] - Creation Science Evangelism homepage
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