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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: 2, Interesting) by JimmyCrackCorn on Saturday March 01 2014, @03:43PM

    by JimmyCrackCorn (1495) on Saturday March 01 2014, @03:43PM (#9140)

    Please do not give up on people that have followed a poor example. Everyone has moments in their lifetime when a story, or something they believe to be true, is completely changed from understanding another story. Look how powerful that idea is by the acceptance of the stories about this noah and his ark.

    One way to have your story change another story is to make sure people know your story.

    No, nut bags are not easy to de-nutify. At the very least, I feel that relating your version of a story can give another human an example of another way to think.

      I do not think it is a good story to tell that some weirdo named noah had a direct feed from some entity called god and saved the earth from having no animals. Hero worship stories are not good lessons for humans. We work together, better.

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