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Creationist Ken Ham blames atheists and ‘fake news’ for failing Ark Encounter theme park
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:29 pm
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:29 pm
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The organization behind a tax-payer subsidized “replica” of Noah’s Ark in Kentucky is blaming atheists for tax-payers getting fleeced by the project.
Creationist Ken Ham built the $92 million Ark Encounter project in Williamstown, Kentucky. The “dismal failure” of the project has backers lashing out at “intolerant atheists” for mocking the return on investment taxpayers have received.
“Sadly, they are influencing business investors and others in such a negative way that they may prevent Grant County, Kentucky, from achieving the economic recovery that its officials and residents have been seeking,” complained Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis.
“Why so many lies and misinformation? Simply because we are in a spiritual battle, and the intolerant secularists are so upset with such world-class attraction like the Ark (and Creation Museum) that publicly proclaim a Christian message,” Ham claimed. “They will resort to whatever tactics they deem necessary to try to malign the attractions.”
Not just atheists, Ham also blamed the media for not uncritically repeating his alternative facts.
Any of you ever been to this place? And posters from Kentucky, what's your opinion of the whole thing?
The organization behind a tax-payer subsidized “replica” of Noah’s Ark in Kentucky is blaming atheists for tax-payers getting fleeced by the project.
Creationist Ken Ham built the $92 million Ark Encounter project in Williamstown, Kentucky. The “dismal failure” of the project has backers lashing out at “intolerant atheists” for mocking the return on investment taxpayers have received.
“Sadly, they are influencing business investors and others in such a negative way that they may prevent Grant County, Kentucky, from achieving the economic recovery that its officials and residents have been seeking,” complained Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis.
“Why so many lies and misinformation? Simply because we are in a spiritual battle, and the intolerant secularists are so upset with such world-class attraction like the Ark (and Creation Museum) that publicly proclaim a Christian message,” Ham claimed. “They will resort to whatever tactics they deem necessary to try to malign the attractions.”
Not just atheists, Ham also blamed the media for not uncritically repeating his alternative facts.
Any of you ever been to this place? And posters from Kentucky, what's your opinion of the whole thing?
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Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:30 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:Feel better now?
DavidTheGnome
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:32 pm to DavidTheGnome
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are so upset with such world-class attraction like the Ark (and Creation Museum)
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:34 pm to DavidTheGnome
Looks like a scene out of Evan Almighty
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:35 pm to DavidTheGnome
I keep hearing that the Tax Payers paid for it; did they really? That is - did the developer actually get a check from the government to build it, or are they getting tax breaks and the like?
There's a pretty big difference.
There's a pretty big difference.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:36 pm to DavidTheGnome
Whrn that flood comes I'll be the first in line to say, "you were right". Until then, what a fricking moron.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:40 pm to DavidTheGnome
So tax dollars went towards helping fund this? I just don't agree with tax dollars used to fund anything religious in nature. Just because we live in a country in which state a religion are suppose to be separate.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:44 pm to DavidTheGnome
Built it about a 100 years too late.
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 9:47 pm
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:46 pm to OweO
Attendance is good, the county's problem is that visitors are not spending money in the town the ark is near.
I went on a Thursday in April and it was crowded. I was surprised by the number of people there.
But the town it is near Williamsburg has very little to offer in terms of hotels or restaurants.
We staid and ate in Cincinnati.
I went on a Thursday in April and it was crowded. I was surprised by the number of people there.
But the town it is near Williamsburg has very little to offer in terms of hotels or restaurants.
We staid and ate in Cincinnati.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:51 pm to DavidTheGnome
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tax-payer subsidized
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:54 pm to DavidTheGnome
It kinda looks like an oil tanker.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:55 pm to DavidTheGnome
Wait so Noah built it with his bare hands but Ken needed $92 million?
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:55 pm to MasterofTigerBait
In a bad/low tourism state. Would do better elsewhere
So how did it look inside ?
So how did it look inside ?
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:57 pm to Chiefagain
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Whrn that flood comes I'll be the first in line to say, "you were right". Until then, what a fricking moron.
There won't be another flood, God promised us that.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 9:57 pm to lsufan112001
It was a zoo inside
Posted on 6/25/17 at 10:00 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 6/25/17 at 10:00 pm to SlapahoeTribe
quote:
Creationist Ken Ham blames atheists and ‘fake news’ for failing Ark Encounter theme park I keep hearing that the Tax Payers paid for it; did they really? That is - did the developer actually get a check from the government to build it, or are they getting tax breaks and the like? There's a pretty big difference.
It's literally the same thing.
Someone getting a $50k tax break is the exact same thing as no tax break + the government writing them a $50k check. Drives me crazy that people don't understand this. I'm not even opining on the wisdom of anything, just that people don't understand that there is no difference between the government collecting then spending or not collecting in the first place. The balance sheets are identical.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 10:01 pm to bird35
quote:Spelled "Cincinnati" correctly and can't spell "stayed"?
We staid and ate in Cincinnati.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 10:01 pm to bird35
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We staid
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I went on a Thursday in April
Sounds about right...
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