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Petersburg. Joe Boone is proud of his move. He just turned a switch on and the big dinosaur above him starts moving. “It’s great, isn’t?”, he asks looking at the animal. The animatronics are one of the main attractions of the Creation Museum, which opened his doors on May 28 2007 in Petersburg (Kentucky). These monsters made of foam and clay are displayed in the idyllic Garden of Eden and throughout the whole museum. “We have dinosaurs coexisting with humans”, Joe Boone says. “It always throws people off. But we want to show to our visitors that on Day Six, God created animals and human beings” Kearny. The young man in loafers is sipping his tea. Sitting on an old chair by the window, he starts speaking quietly about the event that changed his life. In the fall of 2006, Matthew LaClair (picture by Jarin Blaschke), a 17-year-old junior at Kearny High School, recorded his history teacher, making religious comments in class. “He was preaching and telling us that the Bible is Word of God, Matthew LaClair says. He also warned us that if we reject God’s salvation we will end up in Hell”. New York. Interview of Richard Cizik, vice-president for governmental affairs at National Association of Evangelicals (NAE): “I have my opponents. It should not be an oddity for an Evangelical to fight for the environment. It should be a normal function of the average believer. And churches throughout America should realize their personal, political and even our society’s technical responsibility. But first and foremost it is our biblical duty as Christians to conserve”. New York. God created environmentalism. Richard Cizik’s Bible does not state it in such definite terms. But the experienced preacher can quote many verses in the Scriptures, which back up his gospel of green. Genesis, chapter 2 verse 15. “God has assigned us the biblical duty to care for the Earth and to protect it”, he says. His clear voice rises over the diffuse noise of the coffee brewing. It is cold on this morning of January in New York. In the dim anonymity of a Starbucks in Manhattan, the reverend talks about his mission to help save the environment. |
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