The IMDB entry for the documentary film We Believe in Dinosaurs will tell you that it explores the people behind the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter Park in Kentucky. I'm telling you it is an understated cry for anti-fascist action. And if you think that's a hyperbolic statement, then you haven't been paying attention to my entries tagged fascism at this blog and at my other blog. You are Günter Grass's Social Democrat.
These projects' backers are ruthless, immoral confidence artists who believe lying is a justifiable means to achieve their goals. They operate in an amenable political environment where politicians who can't remember the last time they actually stood for a principle can be convinced to subsidize boondoggles while denying welfare benefits. Their nominal competitors are liberal organizations appealing to law and constitutional principles, scientists who ineffectively fact-check their lies or shrill ideologues whose messages can't attract widespread appeal and who hardly care, so satisfied are they in the correctness of their views. Needless to say, the confidence artists roam freely, fearing none. Finally, there are large groups of sincere followers whom seemingly nobody else can reach.
But, why are you claiming that this is anything more than another case of real estate grift? Doesn't the USA military waste $20 million dollars before breakfast every day?
Young Earth Creationism is not the point for advocates of Young Earth Creationism. The goal is to have followers swallow lies so massive that future, more obviously dangerous lies will go down smooth. People who don't think our way are agents of the Adversary. Natural disasters, school shootings and terrorist attacks are God's punishment for the nation's tolerance of abortion, legalization of same-sex marriage and ceasing to compel school children to perform religious rituals in public schools.
The scariest scene in the documentary is at the end, when Ken Ham talks about future plans for the campus where the Ark Park is located. The projects all focus on particular Biblical narratives like the Tower of Babel. Not mentioned, but no doubt in the planning stage, is a theme park devoted to the Book of Revelation, complete with genocidal massacres of disbelievers through nuclear bombs and genetically-tailored plagues.
We Believe in Dinosaurs Trailer from 137 Films on Vimeo.
The 2018 documentary Behind the Curve offers psychological explanations for why people reject scientific theories such as the geological time scales and is worth watching.
