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: 0) by cubancigar11 on Saturday March 01 2014, @04:21PM
The tech industry and the top notch research institutions are running because of positive influx of brilliant immigrants. While its narrative in USA is a little convulated because americans have vested interest in opposiing immigration, in reality USA is quite open to immigration. If left to their own devices, these institutions will collapse like they have in rest of the world that is not as open as USA.
(Score: 1) by cubancigar11 on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:33AM
Yet another overzealous modder... sigh.