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Well, maybe not!
A local ambitious atheist thought he would peek in and see what the situation was at the Ark Encounter. The place is devoid of virtually ANY people, and this on the last weekend in summer. One can see a default on those $62 million of taxpayer backed bonds in about 6 months.
Come one Ham! Pray! Pray harder! I mean, get on your knees and praaaaay it brother.
Well done, Cupper! You had ne thinking> "Well, really? Has Hamm's Ark finally started to pull in the crowds and pay for itself?" It seems this massive Folly to Hamm's vanity and White Elephant to Genesis -literalism is becoming what was predicted, a huge financial kick in the guts to the local people and near enough Fraud to put Hamm in Jail or , better, deported back to Ozz -if they will have him.
I'd suggest that dismantling the thing, except that it (and the nearby Creation museum) would make such a wonderful basis of a museum of evolution.
A local ambitious atheist thought he would peek in and see what the situation was at the Ark Encounter. The place is devoid of virtually ANY people, and this on the last weekend in summer. One can see a default on those $62 million of taxpayer backed bonds in about 6 months.
Come one Ham! Pray! Pray harder! I mean, get on your knees and praaaaay it brother.
No commentary but I could see only buses or trucks arriving. They looked like coaches. Are there organized trips out there?
I don't think that the buses were 'arriving', given the distance of the parking lot from the 'ark' building it would appear that the visitors must be bused from one to the other. Those vehicles were simply traversing the distance between the two.
Given the rather small number of cars in the lot, of which some number must belong to employees, it does not seem likely that the number of visitors is enough to cover the daily operation costs, let alone recoup the construction costs.
ETA:
It occurred to me that perhaps the hour the video was taken might be very early or very late, so I watched the video again, paying close attention to the angle of the shadows cast by the poles, buses and buildings. The sun is clearly well up in the sky. Perhaps it was still too early for tourists to be out of bed. I'm going with 'early' because that would be the 'best case' scenario, if the video were shot in the afternoon it would be particularly damning.
A local ambitious atheist thought he would peek in and see what the situation was at the Ark Encounter. The place is devoid of virtually ANY people, and this on the last weekend in summer. One can see a default on those $62 million of taxpayer backed bonds in about 6 months.
Come one Ham! Pray! Pray harder! I mean, get on your knees and praaaaay it brother.
Boy you just so desperately want this park to fail which is really sad. Unless I see an official documentation of proof with attendance numbers, I'm not buying it. How do we really know when this video was shot? It actually looks like construction is still going on and not a finished park which makes it highly suspect. Low attendance numbers, maybe. But a completely empty parking lot? No way.
Ken has reported numerous times that the attendance numbers are really well and thousands have attended. Course you could claim he's lying, but it seems like atheists are just as much invested in wanting to see this park crash and burn. Ken has posted several videos on his facebook showing full parking lots.
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While we rejoice at how the Lord has been blessing AiG’s ministry, especially over the past six weeks with the tremendous attendance at the Ark Encounter in Northern Kentucky and also at the Creation Museum (a 75% increase in attendance), there has been a resurgence of opposition to AiG. Secularists and even some compromising Christians have noticed and are upset at the impact of AiG’s two major attractions in reaching hundreds of thousands of people this summer.
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You had ne thinking> "Well, really? Has Hamm's Ark finally started to pull in the crowds and pay for itself?" It seems this massive Folly to Hamm's vanity and White Elephant to Genesis -literalism is becoming what was predicted, a huge financial kick in the guts to the local people and near enough Fraud to put Hamm in Jail or , better, deported back to Ozz -if they will have him.
