Ethics

Anyone Wanna Buy a Dinosaur "Theme Park"?

By Ed Brayton

There may be one hitting the market -- and cheap. It seems the feds have now seized Kent Hovind's "theme park" (read: bunch of wooden dinosaur cutouts in his back yard), Dinosaur Adventure Land for payment of back taxes.

A federal judge has cleared the way for the government's seizure of a creationism theme park in Pensacola.

A ruling this week says the nine properties that make up Dinosaur Adventure Land, and two bank accounts associated with the park will be used to satisfy $430,400 in restitution owed to the federal government.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 02, 2009 (boomark / email).