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Breaking News from the Kentucky Creation Museum: Animatronic T-Rex Eats  
Adam.  (AP).  
By A.R. Wallace.
 
Evolution is derided at this 60,000-square-foot facility, packed with  
high-tech exhibits designed by an acclaimed theme-park artist, animatronic dinos  
and a massive ark hewn of wood. In this Old Testament version of history,  
dinosaurs appeared on the same day God created every other land animal.   Even the 
Creation Museum staff was surprised by the "evolution" of events  today.
 
The Creation might have taken a different course if prehistoric dinosaurs  
had acted like the animatronic dinosaurs in the Museum.  In one exhibit,  next 
to a gurgling waterfall, a pair of ancient children were displayed  frolicking 
just a few feet away from a group of "friendly dinosaurs."  The  dinosaurs 
were livelier than the designer attended and took a few unintended  strides so 
that it looks as if they are pursuing the children.
 
An even more dramatic turn of events occurred in the display juxtaposing  the 
giant, moving and shrieking T-Rex with humans, where Adam literally ended up  
in the powerful jaws of the ferocious carnivore.  Until the Creation Museum  
display, animatronic dinosaurs were largely stationery, moving only the upper  
body.  In the redesigned T-Rex, the behemoth not only moved his upper body,  
but took a few strides.  This T-Rex took a few strides right towards Adam,  
then tilted and fell, such that Adam's body was forced between his jaws.   For a 
few minutes, this macabre scene played out while the animatronic T-Rex  
flailed about, sideways, in a circular pattern, with Adam in his jaws.  
 
This unintended display frightened small children, who were horrified  that 
the Creation might have been stopped in its tracks by T-Rex.  Parents  
hurriedly tried to explain to their children that the T-Rex was initially "nice"  
until the Fall and the end of Paradise.
 
Meanwhile, museum designers were scurrying to check the Great Flood  exhibit, 
where animatronic workers are busily building Noah's giant wooden ark,  which 
rises two or three stories inside the museum.  The museum  administration 
assured visitors that they do not have to fear being washed away  in a torrent of 
water.
 
Staff research paleontologists were asked how all of the animals, including  
dinosaurs, could have possibly survived on the same boat.  Dr. G. Mendel  
explained that Noah invented the original tofu, which carnivorous animals,  
including the T-Rex, found satisfying.  
 
The Creation Museum opened today.  Museum officials said they hope to  
minimize visitor injuries from animatronic dinosaurs run amuck.  The  dinosaurs may 
be unplugged until they can be reprogrammed.
 
 
Reported by Associated Press.
 
Bob Russell
Learning Experience Design
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