Those fun-loving folks at Answers in Genesis have been revealing some of their spectacular plans for the Ark Encounter theme park. Would you believe that one of them is a ride celebrating the ten plagues of Egypt?
Oh, yeah, come on down! Nothing says fun like blood, boils, gnats, cholera, and dead children!
It was true in the Creation "Museum", and it's going to be true in this theme park: these creationists worship death and suffering.
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