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Noah's Ark to be Built in KY, Bill Nye Chagrined

posted by LaminatorX on Saturday March 01 2014, @08:00AM   Printer-friendly
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."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by similar_name on Saturday March 01 2014, @11:42AM

    by similar_name (71) on Saturday March 01 2014, @11:42AM (#9063)
    I've never understood why some people have the desire to 'prove' Noah's ark. Isn't it supposed to be a miracle. If they can do it then it's not really a miracle is it? Don't get me wrong, it didn't happen. But if I believed in miracles I wouldn't try to prove they could happen naturally.
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by RobotMonster on Saturday March 01 2014, @11:58AM

    by RobotMonster (130) on Saturday March 01 2014, @11:58AM (#9066) Journal

    I'm not a religious scholar, but I never got the impression that it was supposed to be a miracle. IIRC God told Noah about the impending flood, and instructed him to put his family to work building and populating the ark so they might survive while God cleansed the world with his mighty flood.

    You could argue that the warning was miraculous, and the flood itself, but the Ark itself I thought was supposed to be a "divinely inspired" but otherwise "mundane" creation of the "righteous".

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @02:35PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @02:35PM (#10047)

      the Ark itself I thought was supposed to be a "divinely inspired" but otherwise "mundane" creation of the "righteous".

      I believe the miracle involves finding a righteous Jew to build your ship.