# 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:** 17
**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:** [October 15, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/321 "2018-10-15T17:45:55Z")
Only two of them? "All for _me-e-e-e-e!_ Oh, and you, of course, darling. ---
**Author:** ![DerNils](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerNils](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerNils)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/322 "2018-10-16T13:05:19Z")
I think I saw that on Dark Tourist. When they showed him the dinosaur cages I almost debeveraged! ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/323 "2018-10-17T22:00:59Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I’m curious as to how many of the current visitors are from foreign countries. Why? What would that signify? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/324 "2020-02-22T18:28:57Z")
“Independent Lens” on PBS has a terrific episode on the Ark and its non-benefit to the nearby town. What a scam. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/325 "2020-02-22T21:38:35Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > “Independent Lens” on PBS has a terrific episode on the Ark and its non-benefit to the nearby town. What a scam. Thanks for the heads-up; this was worth watching tho it does have the plodding pace and non-resolution that so many PBS-produced videos seem to have. For anyone else interested, you can watch the entire 1h26m video here: [We Believe In Dinosaurs](https://www.pbs.org/video/we-believe-in-dinosaurs-hnhjlz/). ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/326 "2020-02-23T01:30:57Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > “Independent Lens” on PBS has a terrific episode on the Ark and its non-benefit to the nearby town. What a scam. I’ll have to look for that on my local listings, and Tivo it if it is. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/327 "2020-02-23T02:46:16Z")
Or you could just click the link I provided whenever you want to watch it. 🙂 Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/328 "2020-02-23T02:53:55Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Thanks for the heads-up; this was worth watching tho it does have the plodding pace and non-resolution that so many PBS-produced videos seem to have. For anyone else interested, you can watch the entire 1h26m video here: [We Believe In Dinosaurs](https://www.pbs.org/video/we-believe-in-dinosaurs-hnhjlz/). Totally fair that it plodded. Had me wishing for a 1.25x button on my TV. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/329 "2020-02-23T03:05:16Z")
I know Kentucky isn’t Minnesota, but it sure as hell (see what I did there? :D) Florida. If his park is closing in February because of low attendance, he doesn’t know much about either climatology, or how to run a theme park. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/330 "2020-02-23T04:31:38Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Or you could just click the link I provided whenever you want to watch it. 🙂 Just sayin’. I don’t like to watch lengthy programs on my computer. Otherwise, I would consider it. TYVM for those who don’t mind. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/331 "2020-02-23T04:53:35Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I don’t like to watch lengthy programs on my computer. Otherwise, I would consider it. TYVM for those who don’t mind. If your TV has a browser, you can watch it streaming there thru the website; that’s what I do. Everything PBS produces is in glorious hi-def and _Nova_ looks amazing on my huge living room TV. The sound is better in my living room too. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/332 "2020-02-23T06:05:59Z")
I started watching it. I think I’ll have to do it in increments. It amazes me that that woman with a PhD in molecular biology could insist that dinosaurs are only 6,000 years old. How do these people (and by “these people,” I mean her and Mayim Bialik) get PhD’s in science? ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/333 "2020-02-23T09:00:42Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > I started watching it. I think I’ll have to do it in increments. It amazes me that that woman with a PhD in molecular biology could insist that dinosaurs are only 6,000 years old. How do these people (and by “these people,” I mean her and Mayim Bialik) get PhD’s in science? Every once in a while somebody would ask Isaac Asimov whether he was a PhD or a “real doctor;” as a result he came to the conclusion that PhD stood for Phony Doctor. This came to mind when Ham told people at the opening to “talk to one of our PhD’s.” Or as the geologist — sorry, forgot his name — put it, having a degree means that one can do science. If doesn’t mean that one does do science. I also thought it ironic that Ham talked about “brainwashing.” Well, he oughtta know (“Were you there?”). ---
**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:** [February 23, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/334 "2020-02-23T12:03:14Z")
Ham can always ask failed theme park preacher Jim Bakker for a job as an apocalyptic prophet selling 5 gallon buckets of food guaranteed to last until the end of time. _Ham_ would make a killing selling freeze dried _chicken_ as dinosaur. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/335 "2020-02-23T13:13:02Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > I started watching it. I think I’ll have to do it in increments. It amazes me that that woman with a PhD in molecular biology could insist that dinosaurs are only 6,000 years old. How do these people (and by “these people,” I mean her and Mayim Bialik) get PhD’s in science? It’s more an exercise in persistence and not having anything better to do than it is a matter of smarts. Hell they gave me one. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/336 "2020-02-23T13:51:00Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > I started watching it. I think I’ll have to do it in increments. It amazes me that that woman with a PhD in molecular biology could insist that dinosaurs are only 6,000 years old. How do these people (and by “these people,” I mean her and Mayim Bialik) get PhD’s in science? Brain Cloud. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/337 "2020-02-23T15:22:26Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Ham can always ask failed theme park preacher Jim Bakker for a job as an apocalyptic prophet selling 5 gallon buckets of food guaranteed to last until the end of time. _Ham_ would make a killing selling freeze dried _chicken_ as dinosaur. Now he’s [selling silver](https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/02/22/jim-bakker-my-venereal-disease-gel-was-practically-created-by-god-in-heaven/). (I believe it comes in a 30 piece pack.) ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/338 "2020-02-23T15:49:43Z")
I may well waste my entire day now, wondering what one can do with a gigantic building shaped like an ark after one’s museum goes bankrupt. World’s biggest Long John Silver’s? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/339 "2020-02-23T15:57:04Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Brain Cloud. Get a second opinion. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2020, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575/340 "2020-02-23T16:10:50Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > I also thought it ironic that Ham talked about “brainwashing.” Well, he oughtta know (“Were you there?”). He washed his in hot water, and it shrank. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575.md?page=16) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ken-ham-blames-ark-encounter-failure-on-atheists/789575.md?page=18)