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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: 3, Interesting) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday March 01 2014, @12:14PM

    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Saturday March 01 2014, @12:14PM (#9070)

    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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