Well, what do you know? Just yesterday I pointed toward Ark Encounter as some gaudy nonsense that would almost certainly persuade any thinking adult who has spent time in the real world that the story is fantastic nonsense … and here comes Albert the Pious to defend it.
The story of Noah’s Ark, and more importantly of the salvation of Noah and his family by a sovereign God and the reality of God’s judgment in a universal flood that destroyed the rest of humanity, that’s actually a very important part of salvation history. In that light, gospel minded Christians should be thankful for anything that serves as a catalyst for that kind of gospel conversation in the telling of the full gospel story, a story that, as we should note, can’t be told without Noah and the ark. But we do have to sit back and wonder when we read the subhead on this story, “Beliefs aside, pricey replica in Kentucky is something to see.” Something to see, beliefs aside? For the life of me, I can’t understand a secular worldview that could understand what’s at stake in terms of the story of Noah and whether believing it or not, merely say, “Beliefs aside, it’s still an amazing thing to see.”
Well, geez — I know exactly what the travel writer meant: “The story is crazy, and you’ve got to be out of your mind to believe it, but that’s a big goddam boat that creaky old man and his boys are supposed have built.”
Do fundies like Mohler have some sort of cognition problem, maybe?