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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 Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 01 2014, @08:38PM
So, my perspective of this seems very different than most people. This ark will be nothing more than a tourist attraction and it WILL attract people from all over and for many varied reasons. The city is certainly not stupid for investing in that. It is however stupid if it promotes any religion. I still have no idea how that tiny city can afford the $50mil or whatever. Cincinnati, Ohio is the nearest largest city to the creationist museum. Sometimes i wish they would have built on the Ohio side of the river instead of the Kentucky side.
But whatever, it's not like people care about Kentucky anyways. Bill Nye certainly didn't. It felt like he spoke of residents here as ass-backwards. Just because we let people do whatever they want doesn't make the state ass-backwards. I remember him talking about how you couldn't even get a nuclear medicine degree in the state. What? Yes you can, there are two accredited schools. You can get a degree in almost any science you want, the schools are good. A three second google would have prevented his mistake. I'm not religious at all and think Bill Ham is silly. But what would religious people feel about Bill Nye's speech? They'd probably pool some resources and give him the finger, lol.
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.
I'm sorry, should we hide ideas from people? Let everyone see and make up their own minds. If someone wants to believe in creationism then it is their right to do so. I personally would think them a little simple minded though. Tolkien's universe makes more sense than Bill Hams. Probably more people believe in the Force than creationism but we don't get heartbroken and sickened over it. We laugh : )
Didn't plan on posting anonymously but what i said could be offensive to someone. I'd rather not have any foes so soon.