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Creationist Ken Ham Is Furious Over Carnival’s Super Bowl Ad

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Christian evangelical extremist Ken Ham and his friends are apoplectic over Carnival Cruise Lines’ Super Bowl ad embracing evolution.

Carnival Cruise Lines ran a phenomenal, smart, and stunningly beautiful ad during the Super Bowl Sunday night, featuring the voice of John F. Kennedy in a speech he delivered in 1962, one year before his assassination. 

“I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it’s because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it’s because we all came from the sea,” Kennedy says in the voiceover. “And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea – whether it is to sail or to watch it – we are going back from whence we came.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOzZNLW7r78

Respectfully, Carnival didn’t edit the quote one bit.

Creationist Ken Ham – fresh off a stunning defeat in Kentucky, where the State finally figured out what progressives have been saying for a year, that he would discriminate based on religion in hiring for his proposed Noah’s Ark museum – had an entirely different reaction to the Super Bowl ad honoring our late, great president.

“Carnival Cruise Corporation—Blatant Use of Evolution for Super Bowl Advertisement,” Ham titled his retort on his Answers In Genesis blog, which is ironically titled, Around The World With Ken Ham.

Attacking popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson “in his cosmos series telling us we are all stardust—we are children of the stars,” Ham mocks the majority of Americans who actually believe science and evolution, not what’s printed in the bible, by saying, “worship the stars and worship the sea! That’s the increasing state of our culture as it abandons the truth of God’s Word.”

Of course, it is possible to believe in god and evolution (ask Pope Francis and Pope Benedict, by the way.) Also, the vast, vast majority of those who don’t believe in god don’t “worship the stars and worship the sea,” but facts are useless to the Ken Hams of the world.

Ham goes on to explain that “the Carnival Corporation wants to supposedly ‘create a personal connection with consumers'” – as if that’s a bad thing – as he continues to mock the majority of America.

Don’t you just feel this “personal connection?” After all, your ancestor came out of the sea and evolved by natural processes to produce you. Don’t you feel the connection? Don’t you just want to go on one of their cruises so you can stand on the deck of a big cruise ship, look at the sea, and contemplate your accidental beginnings—and perhaps worship the sea, because it gave birth to you!

Oh—and really, you can spend a lot of money on such a cruise, but because you evolved from the sea and are just an evolved animal, and when you die you won’t even know you existed—so you won’t even remember the cruise—so what’s the point anyway? You just evolved to have an ultimately meaningless existence!

(Actually, “life is short – enjoy it to its fullest” seems to be a more accurate way to look at going on a cruise, but I digress.)

And then Ham goes in for the kill.

So—worship the stars and worship the sea! That’s the increasing state of our culture as it abandons the truth of God’s Word.

Except for the fact that it’s a spiritual issue because of our sin, it’s mind-boggling to think that intelligent people can actually believe life (and the whole universe) came about by accident! Ludicrous!

Hemant Mehta, the “Friendly Atheist,” critiques Ham’s outrage.

“We see a connection to the world around us… Ham sees only sin,” he says. “Turns out you can learn a lot when your library consists of more than just a single book,” Mehta concludes, pointing out that Ham has said the only book anyone needs is the bible.

But Ham is not the only one to explode in religious righteousness indignation. 

Anti-gay Christian extremist Janet Parshall is furious:

And so were other Christian evolution deniers:

 

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Recently, she has begun to claim that COVID-19 vaccines are designed to create “quantum entanglement” between those who take them and the internet in an effort to turn humanity into “transhumanist cyborgs.”

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He adds that “groups of individuals met on December 14th, 2020 in seven states carried by President Biden.”

“The so-called alternate electors from those states then transmitted the purported Electoral-College certificates to Congress, which multiple people advising former President Trump or his campaign used to justify delaying or blocking the certification of the election during the Joint Session of Congress on January 6th, 2021.”

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