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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @02:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @02:12PM (#9113)

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @04:27AM (#9397)

    > 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."