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laklak wrote:I'm impressed that Noah knew about bulbous bow design thousands of years before we knew enough hydraulic engineering to design one.
Calilasseia wrote:Can someone explain why he's built what appears to be a wooden oil tanker?
I'm pretty certain any resemblance to the Exxon Valdez is wholly unintentional, but at least this moola scow isn't going to bring disaster to Alaska ...
Creationist Ken Ham blames atheists and ‘fake news’ for failing Ark Encounter theme park
The organization behind a tax-payer subsidized “replica” of Noah’s Ark in Kentucky is blaming atheists for tax-payers getting fleeced by the project.
Creationist Ken Ham built the $92 million Ark Encounter project in Williamstown, Kentucky. The “dismal failure” of the project has backers lashing out at “intolerant atheists” for mocking the return on investment taxpayers have received.
“Sadly, they are influencing business investors and others in such a negative way that they may prevent Grant County, Kentucky, from achieving the economic recovery that its officials and residents have been seeking,” complained Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis.
“Why so many lies and misinformation? Simply because we are in a spiritual battle, and the intolerant secularists are so upset with such world-class attraction like the Ark (and Creation Museum) that publicly proclaim a Christian message,” Ham claimed. “They will resort to whatever tactics they deem necessary to try to malign the attractions.”
Not just atheists, Ham also blamed the media for not uncritically repeating his alternative facts.
Calilasseia wrote:
I'm pretty certain any resemblance to the Exxon Valdez is wholly unintentional, but at least this moola scow isn't going to bring disaster to Alaska ...
Scot Dutchy wrote:With the amount of steel inside it it would sink.
DoctorE wrote:Celebrating the myth of mass murder
The creationists behind a tax-payer subsidized “replica” of Noah’s Ark in Kentucky are lashing out at the media for reporting on the park’s tax evasion.
“MEDIA AND BLOGGERS OUT OF CONTROL RE: ARK,” wrote prominent creationist Ken Ham, in all capital letters.
Ham was responding to news that the Ark Encounter theme park lost $18 million in tax breaks after a deed transfer in which the for-profit LLC Answers in Genesis “sold” the park to a non-profit in an attempt to avoid paying local public safety taxes to Williamstown, Kentucky.
Ham quoted CCO Mark Looy, who said, “We are saddened that the City Council did not extend the courtesy of discussing this ordinance with us before passing it and taking it public, and was not willing to negotiate further.”
However, the Ark has burned enough bridges in town that the City Council may have been left with little choice.
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