# Ken Ham blames "Ark Encounter" failure on atheists **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575 "2017-06-21T23:28:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/181 "2017-07-04T18:51:11Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > What do Raptured Christians need survivalist stuff for? It’s our Christian duty to provide for those left behind, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/182 "2017-07-04T19:36:45Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > It doesn’t have to make sense. Jim Bakker is just a guy who likes to separate fools from their money. Whether it’s idiot fundies or idiot survivalists. And just note, when you place your order and give them your credit card number, they still need to know the expiration date. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/183 "2017-07-04T19:49:26Z")
BTW, the buckets also [make great furniture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOrcYnusGGE)! ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/184 "2017-07-04T20:50:44Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > What do Raptured Christians need survivalist stuff for? [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnaSvvSqY-8) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/185 "2017-07-04T20:52:37Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > 1. The carwash is damned. Big deal-What carwash isn’t? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/186 "2017-07-05T12:28:53Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Nah, Jim is busy selling [Buckets-o-Crap](http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/03/456677535/apocalypse-chow-we-tried-televangelist-jim-bakkers-survival-food) for the Zombie Apocalypse. I suspect that a lot of fundamentalist Christians secretly take comfort and delight in the thought of having ringside seats to watch the rest of us burn. > [@NPR](#): > > “Imagine — the world is dying and you’re having a breakfast for kings,” the ad for the the food proclaims. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/187 "2017-07-05T12:59:08Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Because God. Duh! That’s where he lost the Jewish tourists. I live in Kentucky. Taxpayer money went towards the building off this thing, and Ham has said that next up is the Tower of Babel. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/188 "2017-07-05T13:28:45Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I live in Kentucky. Taxpayer money went towards the building off this thing, and Ham has said that next up is the Tower of Babel. And aren’t you just ecstatic about being able to contribute to that, you lucky thing? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/189 "2017-07-05T14:03:26Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > And aren’t you just ecstatic about being able to contribute to that, you lucky thing? I’d rather pound my nuts flat with a wooden hammer. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/190 "2017-07-05T14:09:27Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Ummmm… Ham! > [@Superdude](#): > > That’s where he lost the Jewish tourists. > > I live in Kentucky. Taxpayer money went towards the building off this thing, and Ham has said that next up is the Tower of Babel. For the record, my “Jewish tourist” line was meant in reference to **Gatopescado** ’s post. ---
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/191 "2017-07-06T14:07:37Z")
Will teh Hamster get sucked into the current Hobby Lobby fiasco of dealing in ill-gotten antiques funding ISIS? > **[Hobby Lobby to forfeit ancient Iraqi artifacts in settlement with U.S. DOJ](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iraqiartifacts-idUSKBN19Q33Q)** > > (The 5th July story refiles to reflect that the artifacts were not intended for the Museum of the Bible in paragraphs 1 and 4) He provides exhibit space for some their collection… ---
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/192 "2017-07-06T14:10:48Z")
\*of ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/193 "2017-07-06T15:33:09Z")
> [@pythonzzz](#): > > Will teh Hamster get sucked into the current Hobby Lobby fiasco of dealing in ill-gotten antiques funding ISIS? > > [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iraqiartifacts-idUSKBN19Q33Q](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iraqiartifacts-idUSKBN19Q33Q) > > He provides exhibit space for some their collection… Ah, Hobby Lobby, “We don’t support birth control, but we DO support ISIS!” ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/194 "2017-07-06T19:25:55Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > God: "Ken. _Ken_! **KEN!** > > Ken [Falls to knees]: “Uh, yes my lord?” > > God: “Ken have you heard the story about Noah and the Great Flood?” > > Ken: “Well, yes of course my lord” > > God: “Why did Noah build an ark, Ken?” > > Ken: “Because you told him there would be a great flood, Lord” > > God: “Correct. Have I told you there is going to be a great flood, Ken?” > > Ken: “No my Lord” > > God: “You’re an idiot, Ken.” God: “…and **stop playing with yourself!!** ” ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/195 "2017-07-06T21:48:56Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > God: “…and **stop playing with yourself!!** ” God: “A big mirror makes a big beam.” ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/196 "2017-07-06T22:06:51Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > That’s where he lost the Jewish tourists. > > I live in Kentucky. Taxpayer money went towards the building off this thing, and Ham has said that next up is the Tower of Babel. I’m no Biblical scholar by any measure, but isn’t the Tower of Babel something YHWH _didn’t_ want built??? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/197 "2017-07-06T22:24:32Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > I’m no Biblical scholar by any measure, but isn’t the Tower of Babel something YHWH _didn’t_ want built??? Indeed. And to be realistic, everyone involved in the project has to speak a different language. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/198 "2017-07-06T22:34:09Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Indeed. And to be realistic, everyone involved in the project has to speak a different language. No, they would all speak the _same_ language. Speaking different languages was the punishment for building the first one. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/199 "2017-07-06T22:53:13Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Ah, Hobby Lobby, “We don’t support birth control, but we DO support ISIS!” It is also hilarious that Evangelical Christians want to put cuneiform tablets from Iraq in a Bible museum when the translation of cuneiform tablets from Iraq was one of the major factors in chipping away at the historicity of the bible in the late 19th century. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/200 "2017-07-06T23:20:05Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I live in Kentucky. Taxpayer money went towards the building off this thing, and Ham has said that next up is the Tower of Babel. What a Nimrod. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575.md?page=11)