Noah's Ark park in Kentucky will be built, officials say (controversial, millionaire)

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No issue with building a creationist/religion theme park based on private donations but floating municipal bonds to pay for this seems to be a violation.

Founders of Northern Kentucky's controversial Creation Museum said Thursday that enough money
has been raised to proceed with a biblical theme park built around a
510-foot replica of Noah's Ark.

The museum and its founder, President Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis, gained
national attention earlier this month after a debate with Science Guy Bill
Nye.

"We're going to begin construction, and this is going to be great for
the area," Ham said in an online announcement, indicating the 800-acre Ark
Encounter park would open in summer 2016. "Let's build the ark."

The organization's website said it has raised $14.4 million in private
donations toward the $24.5 million needed to build the ark alone. The complete
first phase would total more than $70 million, officials have said. They did not
say how much they had raised from a $62 million municipal bond
offering.

"We're happy to be the home of the ark," Skinner said

But Josh Rosenau, policy director for the California-based National Center
for Science Education, said the ark park is objectionable because it displays "a
false account of world history and biology" and presents it "as if it were
fact."

Answers in Genesis and its Petersburg, Ky.-based Creation Museum about 40
miles from the planned ark park embrace a literal interpretation of the Book of
Genesis and a belief that the Earth is only 6,000 years old — a view that runs
counter to established science. As a result, the organization and its projects
have drawn widespread criticism and derision.

"God has burdened AiG to rebuild a full-size Noah's Ark," Ham wrote on his
website.

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has defended his support for the project saying
that if the park were to fail, the state would not be out any money.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/27/ark-encounter-theme-park/5881323/

[GWhopper]

I'd like to see a pretend Ark.

[nvxplorer]

A replica of noahs ark? Thats hilarious.

[pknopp]

This along with ball park for millionaire owners is something the tax payers should never be on the hook for.

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Originally Posted by pknopp

This along with ball park for millionaire owners is something the tax payers should never be on the hook for.

That much I can agree with, they should survive on their own merits.

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Originally Posted by nvxplorer

A replica of noahs ark? Thats hilarious.

It gets better, they have dinosaurs

[Frank DeForrest]

Liberal heads will explode, so some good will come of it. But yeah this what happens when voters give politicians the purse strings and the power.

[Toyman at Jewel Lake]

Even if the local government spends some money on it (which I don't agree with), it will be a fraction of what is spent in support of other mythical, cultish organizations. How much tax money does the AGW movement receive again????

[urbanlife78]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

Liberal heads will explode, so some good will come of it. But yeah this what happens when voters give politicians the purse strings and the power.

Why would liberals heads explode over this? Who cares if someone wants to build a big wooden boat with their own money?

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by GWhopper

I'd like to see a pretend Ark.

Depending on how its done it might be cool to see. A roadside attraction with a giant ark filled with animals and you can look out and see dinosaurs? Sounds pretty cool to me. its just that taxpayers shouldn't be involved in doing it.