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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: 5, Insightful) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday March 01 2014, @11:05AM
...their chief lumber supplier probably just bought an island in the Carribean.
If they don't cheat and use archaic methods to assemble it (even using modern machine harvested/milled wood) they will discover quite quickly the meaning of the term "myth." So I propose than Adam and Jamie oversee the project and ensure that everything is authentic, from the number of people working on it, harvesting and milling the trees by hand to construction, loading and launch!
After all, if they want to convince me a collection of historical scraps, fairy tales and psychotic gods is true. This would be my minimum standard and then ONLY if they can pull it off under said conditions within the biblical time frame.
If they could do that, I would overlook the problem of getting animals from across the globe to a specific location without the use of modern shipping.
It could become the greatest Mythbusters episode EVER!
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday March 01 2014, @12:14PM
Ok, "launch" ain't gonna happen. Aside from the fact it would fall apart under it's own weight. Kentucky in land locked.
I don't think there is a sufficiantly large body of water nearby.
I have been past their sign (I think it is on I-70) that for years has said "site of reconstruction of Noahs ark" or somthing along that line. A giant open metal frame sits near the sign. I always wondered it the STEEL FRAMEWORK was the start of it. The steel appears to have no specific function so I always assumed it was part of a project that had failed.
(yeah, it took me that long to connect the dots and realize this story was about that site I had seen so many times as an OTR driver, fuck it, I live in Washington, so I'll have another toke of 'Girl Scout Cookie')
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @02:12PM
Please... If this project fails it will only 'confirm' that said project was impossible without divine intervention! We are all wasting our keystrokes on this story.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @04:27AM
> If this project fails it will only 'confirm' that said project was impossible without divine intervention!
And so God commanded Noah to do the impossible, rather than snapping his divine fingers and accomplishing it with no effort... so why didn't God just zap an Ark into existence? Or zap the animals to another planet that could support them until the flood was done? Or just zap those evil sinful humans away instead of covering the ENTIRE EARTH with water?
For an omnipotent God, there are endless better solutions. The Flood is probably the worst conceivable way to accomplish the goal... unless he wanted it to "look like an accident."