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Mini-doc on creationist dinosaur park

Cory Doctorow at 6:17 am Wed, Mar 7, 2007

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My friends Dave Nickle (a Stoker-award-winning horror writer) and Karen Fernandez made this hilarious short documentary about Dinosaur Adventure Land, Kent Hovind's creationist themepark in Florida. Dinosaur Adventure Land was shut down just before they got there, ordered closed by a court that took notice of the fact that Hovind hadn't applied for any building permits for his park, prompting the city fathers to invoke the scriptural injunction to "render unto Caesar."

Dave and Karen's arch little doc is convulsively funny and jaw-droppingly weird. Are there really people whose faith demands that they shrilly protest that dinosaurs and humans really, really, really walked the Earth at the same time? Link

Update: Stocky Ninja sez, "The founder was convicted of 58 federal charges last week."

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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