{"id":19115,"date":"2013-11-13T16:44:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=19115"},"modified":"2013-11-13T16:44:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T21:44:16","slug":"darren-aronofsky-beats-ken-ham-for-noahs-ark-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/darren-aronofsky-beats-ken-ham-for-noahs-ark-realism.html","title":{"rendered":"Darren Aronofsky Beats Ken Ham for Noah's Ark Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Peter Chattaway shared<\/a> this sneak peek of the upcoming Noah movie starring Russell Crowe:<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n<p>Compare what you see in the Answers in Genesis ark park and its anachronistic depiction of Noah\u2019s workshop, about which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2013\/11\/11\/noahs-workshop-should-not-look-like-the-renaissance-fair\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Clark recently posted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ark Encounter - Phase 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iybTAuTKZII?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Of course, talking about \u201crealism\u201d in different types of depictions of a story that is not realistic is itself problematic. But when you are dealing with the text through creative storytelling, and you still manage to get more historical realism for the time period than those who claim to take the story as literal factual historical truth, then it tells you something important about the latter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2013\/11\/11\/noahs-workshop-should-not-look-like-the-renaissance-fair\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Click through to read Fred\u2019s criticisms in detail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Chattaway shared this sneak peek of the upcoming Noah movie starring Russell Crowe: Compare what you see in the Answers in Genesis ark park and its anachronistic depiction of Noah\u2019s workshop, about which\u00a0Fred Clark recently posted: Of course, talking about \u201crealism\u201d in different types of depictions of a story that is not realistic is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,62],"tags":[662,7755,8173,8731,10638,12491],"class_list":["post-19115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genesis-bible","category-movies","tag-answers-in-genesis","tag-movie","tag-noahs-ark","tag-park","tag-russell-crowe","tag-theme-park"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Darren Aronofsky Beats Ken Ham for Noah's Ark Realism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Peter Chattaway shared this sneak peek of the upcoming Noah movie starring Russell Crowe: Compare what you see in the Answers in Genesis ark park and its\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/darren-aronofsky-beats-ken-ham-for-noahs-ark-realism.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Darren Aronofsky Beats Ken Ham for Noah's Ark Realism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peter Chattaway shared this sneak peek of the upcoming Noah movie starring Russell Crowe: Compare what you see in the Answers in Genesis ark park and its\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/darren-aronofsky-beats-ken-ham-for-noahs-ark-realism.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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