There is a christian "theme park" called Ark Encounter. Pushed by young creationist Ken Ham who does have an environmental biology degree but not one in Geology, the park claims to have created a replica of Noah's ark. Now that I think about it he doesn't have a degree in theology either.
Anyway the park is in Kentucky and Ham managed to wangle tax exemptions promising that the park would provide jobs and increased tax revenue in a state that desperately needs the jobs and the revenue. Note: as far as I can tell neither the jobs or the revenue have come through.
When the park was opened there was a fair amount of side holding. Said side holding brought on by the displays of baby dinos that were supposedly some of the ark's passengers. Because you see babies take up much less space than their parents. No explanation of how they kept the baby meat eaters from eating the baby plant eaters however. Actually how did they keep the lions and leopards from eating the antelopes? The recent film Noah solves part of the problem by using some sort of herbal combo that when burned puts all the animals to sleep for voyage. No dinos on board though.
Anyway I was listening to the score from the film on YouTube (really strange music BTW. It works in the film but not by itself.) It hit me. The heck with the dinos. Where were the kangaroos? And all the other Australian marsupials? I mean it's a long way from the Middle East to Australia. And last I heard there are no kangaroos in Iraq or Iran or Turkey or....lol. And it's a long way from Mount Ararat to Australia and there's a lot of water to get across. Inquiring minds would like to know the answer to that question. I won't be holding my breath though.
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