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from the you-both-get-dirty-and-the-pig-likes-it dept.
McGruber writes:
"Following up on the Bil Nye and Ken Ham debate on Creationism, Creation Museum founder Ken Ham announced Thursday that a municipal bond offering has raised enough money to begin construction on the Ark Encounter project, estimated to cost about $73 million. Groundbreaking is planned for May and the ark is expected to be finished by the summer of 2016. Ham credits the high-profile evolution debate he had with "Science Guy" Bill Nye on Feb. 4 with boosting support for the project.
After learning that the project would move forward, Nye said he was 'heartbroken and sickened for the Commonwealth of Kentucky,' lamenting that the ark would eventually draw more attention to the beliefs of Ham's Young-earth Creationist ministry. 'Voters and taxpayers in Kentucky will eventually see that this is not in their best interest.' Nye hopes."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mr_Flibble on Saturday March 01 2014, @08:50AM
I mean is it possible to build it using the old construction techniques,how big will it be and would it actually float and not sink or capsize.
Basically is it even possible without cheating.
I suspect it isn't and they will lie about it.
Just because I suffer from paranoia doesn't mean people aren't out to get me.
(Score: 0) by evk on Sunday March 02 2014, @09:26PM
The project is a really interesting experiment. To bad it's done for all the wrong reasons. I can't see any good coming out of this. Worst case scenario; they succeed(*) and according to their usual flawed logic, that would be proof for all their claims. If they fail, it doesn't really matter for them. It's still plenty of publicity and they'll have all kind of excuses.
* I didn't bother to check if they've even defined the goal, and I highly doubt that it will be relevant. I guess it'll be a fairly big boat that floats (or at least looks like it could). Certainly not big enough to house 10k "kinds" of anything bigger than rodents.