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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: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Saturday March 01 2014, @02:27PM
It is, but this is an area of the country where "not establishing a religion" means that they'll accept any path to accepting Jesus as your personal lord and savior. And they know they don't have a leg to stand on, but they'll talk about it in terms of bringing business and tourism to their city and try to get away with it that way. If the project gets shut down, Ken Ham and his crew will generate even more cash with their cries that those evil secularists in Washington are oppressing them (by making them follow the same rules as everyone else).
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.