A huge replica of Noah’s Ark and an 800-acre creationist theme park reportedly are coming to Grant County, Ky., according to NBC station WLEX.
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The ark and theme park are expected to attract 1.6 million visitors annually…

“Shirley not!” you say…“There can’t be so many grindingly stoopid people in the world!  That must be a typo!”
But wait…

The Creation Museum, opened in May 2007 about seven miles from the Cincinnati-northern Kentucky airport, was estimated to draw about 250,000 visitors per year but surpassed 1 million visitors in less than three years...

I need a drink.

Andrew - 01 December 2010 03:26 AM

A huge replica of Noah’s Ark and an 800-acre creationist theme park reportedly are coming to Grant County, Ky., according to NBC station WLEX.
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The ark and theme park are expected to attract 1.6 million visitors annually…

“Shirley not!” you say…“There can’t be so many grindingly stoopid people in the world!  That must be a typo!”
But wait…

The Creation Museum, opened in May 2007 about seven miles from the Cincinnati-northern Kentucky airport, was estimated to draw about 250,000 visitors per year but surpassed 1 million visitors in less than three years...

I need a drink.

Ah, to be young, single, and free of the responsibilites of adulthood again.  I would love to get a couple of good friends together and visit this with the aid of some psychedelic substance or other.

Hey, I AM going to Kentucky in January for a GbV show…and I might be travelling alone.  Hmm….

Move over, I’ll need more then one drink.

No ice.  In the introduction to his ‘LETTER TO A CHRISTIAN NATION’ Sam Harris reminds us that only 12% of Americans believe that nature is not supernatural.  What I think he means is, (refill please) 88% of Americans believe that nature is supernatural.  Just leave the bottle!

Wait.  I just got it.  He means that only 12% of Americans believe that nature is natural.

Andrew - 01 December 2010 03:26 AM

I need a drink.

I’ll take this as consolation since it’s a whole lot better than, “Let’s blow the place up!”

bigredfutbol - 01 December 2010 05:13 AM

I would love to get a couple of good friends together and visit this with the aid of some psychedelic substance or other.

I’ll fry to that!

bigredfutbol - 01 December 2010 05:13 AM

Ah, to be young, single, and free of the responsibilites of adulthood again.  I would love to get a couple of good friends together and visit this with the aid of some psychedelic substance or other.

ROFLMAO!

I seem to remember a few of my religious experiences already….

Skipshot - 01 December 2010 10:20 PM

I’ll take this as consolation since it’s a whole lot better than, “Let’s blow the place up!”

Funny, that was a lot like my second thought. Actually, it was “How about that, a better target audience than Disney World!”

So, there were dinasaurs on the ark, too—video

rab - 06 December 2010 06:45 AM

So, there were dinasaurs on the ark, too—video

Oh Wow! Yes, the view from here is good. Yes, they are all quite mad are they not? I loved the look on the governors face when he was asked if dinosaurs would be on government sponsored ark.

Old religion morphing into popular animatronic culture. If these guys get a jesus theme park then the hindus and the muslims will want their own. Where will it end?

All you talk about doing acid and visiting such a place….I don’t know. We would likely get kicked out if we didn’t go mad first. The loonies would likely be sensitive a group of people with pupils as big as saucers,  lost in hysterical laughing fits over everything they encountered.

I wish they really would find the Ark on Mt. Ararat, because then we could look for DNA evidence for all those animals.

I’m sorry fellow people but I am not laughing in the slightest. As Sam Harris has said on multiple occasions we are literally building a nation of ignorance. This park is not going to be presented as something fictitious akin to Disney Land; this is going to be a park that will fester and rot out the intellectual integrity of children. They will literally see the ark and become enraptured by it. How will this effect the future I don’t know, but it can’t be beneficial. And we are doing for this money? Shame on us. We are becoming a disgrace in the eyes of the modern world.

As dissapointed and embarresed as I am in the public for allowing this, I am not all surprised.

Meh. Amusement parks are the least of my worries. There will always be some big tacky eyesore to distract us. I wouldn’t bother fighting over that.

The focus should be on textbooks and educational policy. This is what will give kids a fighting chance.

‘The focus should be on textbooks and educational policy. This is what will give kids a fighting chance.’

Given that Brick, what is your opinion of Charter Schools?

Trouble in Paradise:

...Peter Enns, a senior fellow at the Biologos Foundation—a Christian group interested in the intersection of science and faith—has said the story of Adam and Eve may be misinterpreted, and suggests it could instead symbolize the creation of Israel.

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In a recent blog post, [Ken] Ham [president of Answers in Genesis—and of the group which built the theme park] called Enns’ position and overall teaching curriculum the kind of “outright liberal theology that totally undermines the authority of the Word of God,” even going so far as to say it’s an attack on “Christ.”

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“We believe that what Ken has said and done is unChristian and sinful,” Great Homeschool Conventions’ Brennan Dean said in a statement. The group has also banned Ham from future conventions.

I love it when they fight among themselves!

I wonder if they’ve tried prayer?

...slow fundraising has delayed the Ark Encounter’s groundbreaking.

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”...too many complexities got in the way so we ended up putting it on hold until everything is worked out,” Zovath wrote, according to the report. “Funding is progressing, a little slower due to the very slow economy.”

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So far, $4.3 million has been raised for the project. The group hopes to raise $24.5 million in all.