{"id":5838,"date":"2012-01-18T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=5838"},"modified":"2012-01-18T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:40:15","slug":"the-most-unintentionally-ironic-creationist-quote-of-the-day-perhaps-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/01\/the-most-unintentionally-ironic-creationist-quote-of-the-day-perhaps-of-all-time.html","title":{"rendered":"The Most Unintentionally Ironic Creationist Quote of the Day – Perhaps of All Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Internet Monk has a post \u201cCreation Police at Toys-R-Us\u201d<\/a> about an article on the Institute for Creation Research web site, complaining about a children\u2019s game and its depiction of Noah\u2019s ark. Here\u2019s the priceless quote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Noah\u2019s Ark Game\u00a0looks innocuous enough, with a picture of colorful animals crowding the roof and deck of a boat barely large enough to hold them. But it misrepresents the Ark to such a degree that it undermines the feasibility of Scripture\u2019s account of the Flood<\/em> [emphasis added].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is saddening and disturbing that anyone can think that there is feasibility to the account of the Flood in Genesis. It is logic, comparative study of literature, geological and other scientific evidence, and moral sensibility<\/a> that undermine the feasibility of Scripture\u2019s account of the Flood. Not a children\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

But one can choose to cry about such things, or laugh. I suspect it is better to laugh.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Internet Monk has a post \u201cCreation Police at Toys-R-Us\u201d about an article on the Institute for Creation Research web site, complaining about a children\u2019s game and its depiction of Noah\u2019s ark. Here\u2019s the priceless quote: The Noah\u2019s Ark Game\u00a0looks innocuous enough, with a picture of colorful animals crowding the roof and deck of a boat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,131,139,28,42,43,108],"tags":[782,1140,1790,3736,3840,4956,5245,6621,8171,14019],"class_list":["post-5838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-christianity-religion","category-fundamentalism-religion","category-genesis-bible","category-humor","category-inerrancy","category-young-earth-creationism","tag-ark","tag-bible","tag-children","tag-game","tag-genesis-bible","tag-icr","tag-institute-for-creation-research","tag-literalism","tag-noah","tag-young-earth-creationists"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Most Unintentionally Ironic Creationist Quote of the Day - Perhaps of All Time?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Internet Monk has a post "Creation Police at Toys-R-Us" about an article on the Institute for Creation Research web site, complaining about a children's\" \/>\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\/2012\/01\/the-most-unintentionally-ironic-creationist-quote-of-the-day-perhaps-of-all-time.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Most Unintentionally Ironic Creationist Quote of the Day - Perhaps of All Time?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Internet Monk has a post "Creation Police at Toys-R-Us" about an article on the Institute for Creation Research web site, complaining about a children's\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/01\/the-most-unintentionally-ironic-creationist-quote-of-the-day-perhaps-of-all-time.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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