# 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:** 12
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/221 "2017-07-11T17:18:31Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If you live near a river, eventually it will flood. _falls to the ground, kisses the hem of the prophet’s robe_ 😃 ---
**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 11, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/222 "2017-07-11T17:26:57Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > _falls to the ground, kisses the hem of the prophet’s robe_ > > 😃 Kinky, but…what the hell-I’ll take what I can get. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/223 "2017-07-11T22:13:28Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > While I’m personally embarrassed by the Ark, the Patheos website sited in the OP is just as cringeworthy. > > Anyway, I actually know the Sales Director at the Ark, and acc to him, they are doing great. Acc to a recent FB post of his, Dry Ridge hotel occupancy is 98% with thee more hotels breaking ground. > > P.S. If you want to get an accurate read of attendance, you can’t count cars in the parking lot. A huge percentage of visitors come in buses. He routinely is on FB welcoming youth and church groups bused in from all over the country. Sounds like alternative facts to me. :dubious: Today’s “Non Sequitur” comic is relevant to this thread. [http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur](http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/224 "2017-07-11T22:23:38Z")
Here’s a [copy of the link that won’t expire](http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2017/07/11)… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/225 "2017-07-18T02:26:48Z")
Seems the ark people are playing shell games to dodge taxes. [-=linky=-](http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article161782438.html) ---
**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 18, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/226 "2017-07-18T03:52:01Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > Seems the ark people are playing shell games to dodge taxes. > [-=linky=-](http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article161782438.html) Williamston was warned over and over about dealing with those scumbags, but they did it anyway. I have very little sympathy for them. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/227 "2017-07-18T14:53:19Z")
Someday a bankruptcy court is going to have to try to sell that property. ---
**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 18, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/228 "2017-07-18T15:04:00Z")
If only we could picnic basket building and the boat building together in some “it seemed like a good idea at the time” theme park. ---
**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 18, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/229 "2017-07-18T15:51:00Z")
The dumb ass should have built his ark close to an ocean shoreline and funded it via time-shares to global warming/sea level rise believers. He obviously didn’t learn enough from Jim Baker, who could have advised him on how to scam his flock via direct donations and via time-shares, and who could have added value to the project by also selling Jim’s 20-year buckets of rapture food. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/230 "2017-07-19T16:51:07Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > Someday a bankruptcy court is going to have to try to sell that property. Depends on how good the sprinkler system is. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/231 "2017-07-19T17:23:30Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > Seems the ark people are playing shell games to dodge taxes. > [-=linky=-](http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article161782438.html) Shipp rejects ship. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/232 "2017-07-20T15:56:57Z")
Ken Han’s Noah’s Ark just became the Big Gay Ark: > [@](#): > > Answers in Genesis founder Ken Ham has announced the ministry’s Noah’s Ark-themed park will now be permanently lit up with rainbow lights as a reminder that God owns the rainbow - not the LGBT community. > **[Ken Ham: The Ark Encounter Will be Permanently Lit with Rainbow Lights to...](https://www.gospelherald.com/articles/71141/20170719/ken-ham-ark-encounter-permananetly-lit-rainbow-lights-take-back.htm)** > > July 19, 2017: Answers in Genesis founder Ken Ham has announced the ministry's Noah's Ark-themed park will now be permanently lit up with rainbow lights as a reminder that God owns the rainbow - not the LGBT community. ---
**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 21, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/233 "2017-07-21T23:19:30Z")
[Kentucky fried ham.](https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/29977-kentucky-notifies-ark-encounter-that-it-has-breached-its-tax-incentive-agreement) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/234 "2017-07-21T23:41:49Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > Ken Han’s Noah’s Ark just became the Big Gay Ark: > [Ken Ham: The Ark Encounter Will be Permanently Lit with Rainbow Lights to 'Take Back' Symbol from LGBT Community](http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/71141/20170719/ken-ham-ark-encounter-permananetly-lit-rainbow-lights-take-back.htm) At first glance, I thought it was an Onion-esque story. It’s not. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/235 "2017-07-22T00:11:41Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > Ken Han’s Noah’s Ark just became the Big Gay Ark: > [Ken Ham: The Ark Encounter Will be Permanently Lit with Rainbow Lights to 'Take Back' Symbol from LGBT Community](http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/71141/20170719/ken-ham-ark-encounter-permananetly-lit-rainbow-lights-take-back.htm) From the picture, they couldn’t even get rainbow lights right. That’s red-blue-green-red-blue . . . red? So - three colors. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/236 "2017-07-22T00:58:36Z")
There are some churches around my home freaking out about people thinking they are gay friendly due to certain symbols, and taking them off their logos and stuff. Of course, they don’t have to pay to get in. But I do wonder if gay people might show up at the ark more now. That would still be funny, as long as no one goes in. ---
**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 22, 2017, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/237 "2017-07-22T01:01:08Z")
“No. No. We already met our bear quota!” ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/238 "2017-07-22T01:06:19Z")
It is a pretty building. It is even interesting. As a business model it is just dumb. How long can they charge people sixty dollars to walk around and look at plastic dinosaurs? When all of this is said and done maybe the next owner can use the ark as the centerpiece of a more conventional zoo or something. ---
**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 22, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/239 "2017-07-22T01:21:53Z")
Ken Ham wants us to know and remember that THE LORD is remorseful that HE destroyed all (well, most) of the Earth and HE promises never to do that again . . . > [@Genesis 9](#): > > 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.” > > 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, 15 I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. 16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.” . . . Well, just not with a flood, anyway. > [@Gospel Herald](#): > > He explained that the rainbow is a reminder that “God will never again judge the wickedness of man with a global Flood-next time the world will be judged by fire.” ---
**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 22, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/240 "2017-07-22T03:05:46Z")
The rainbow part was one of the elements lifted from Gilgamesh–in that version, the rainbow was given by Ishtar. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575.md?page=13)