To work there you must sign a pledge that you are a biblical literalist Young-Earth Creationist. I think there might be something in there about “traditional family values”, too. Basicly, for tax break purposes they claim to be a secular business, and for employment purposes claim to be a ministry (so that there can be a religious test for employment) and the fools in Kentucky let them get away with that.
I can see no other way to look at this other than as an attempt to junior mod. Cut it out. If you see a possible violation report it.
Since this thread doesn’t fall under the breaking news category it’s a bad attempt at junior modding as well.
Here we go–to work there, you must sign a document asserting that you are a YEC and also that you reject homosexuality, same-sex marriage and premarital sex. (Having said that, they will probably find enough people who hold all those beliefs or are willing to lie about having them.)
Yeah, I clicked through and it looks nice. As in the landscaping is well done and those dinosaurs would be well placed in an actual Natural History context and not an “Allosaurs used to nuzzle caribou in the Garden of Eden” context. Good effort although ultimately misguided effort. And the $40 price tag to get in is just loopy.
Learn from history, Ark guy. Jim and Tammy Bakker’s Heritage USA collapsed because it was run by scam artists masquerading as Christian paragons, not because atheists sabotaged it.
Now Hammy doesn’t want to pay a 50 cent per ticket safety fee.
So many great quotes from that episode alone.
‘‘Ocean madness is no excuse for ocean rudeness!’’
Did Ken Ham ever record this song?
If that’s the case, one tends to wonder what, exactly, Mr. Ham is blaming atheists for…
- The carwash is damned.
I love it.
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Would Jesus build an Ark Park, or would he turn over the tables in the gift shop?
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And as for the $40 admission, I balked at $18 for the Musical Instrument Museum (since raised to $20) and wasn’t threatened to be ejected by security for “disrespectful language.” I did attend a performance there and what I saw of the museum (it was after hours) was pretty impressive, much more so than pix I’ve seen of the Ark Park.
But you get your choice of toppings.
Which starts off with “reportedly the largest timber-framed structure in the world,” which, of course, it isn’t. The whole damn thing would fit inside the Tilamook Air Museum. But religious nutters are not ones to let facts stand in their way.
I see this whole episode, as being most useful to provide insight into some informative human failure behaviors.
I’ve seen this overall story repeated a number of times, at different levels of endeavor, always with the same basic elements. A group of people who are fanatically enamored of some person or idea, get caught up with defending the blatantly obvious defects in their beloved focal point, and excitedly succumb to the intoxicating allure of classic double-think. In an effort to prove to each other and to themselves, that they really DO love their idol (or ideal) with every fabric of their being, they attribute vastly more value, importance, and downright magical energy to it, than even they truly believe, in their heart of hearts.
And to prove things to each other, and to fight off the bad feelings they are already experiencing for having recognized how truly two-minded they actually are about it all, they purposely blind themselves and each other to reality altogether.
The final step, is to erect some large public manifestation, not of their real beliefs, but of their now wildly exaggerated fantasy. A young person who has been told by their parents that the person they have been dating and sleeping with, is actually objectionable, runs off and MARRIES the person, even though all they really meant to do to begin with, was have fun sex regularly.
These guys may have initiated this monstrous nonsense, because they failed to realize that the majority of the people around them who get mad at atheists and others who poo-poo the Bible stories, aren’t actually upset because they avidly believe those stories to the nth degree. Most of them are just mad(or feel threatened in other ways) about being insulted or belittled for their beliefs in general, and are PRETENDING to believe the exact letter of the King James translation of the Bible, as a way to thumb their noses at their opponents. When you try to turn someone’s resentful sassing of an opponent into a functional monument, you usually just end up embarrassing them instead. Usually at a tremendous loss, too.
My bolding.
If you are going to quote fluff pieces, at least quote them accurately.
The 10,000 is for both the ark and the creation museums, combined. They are claiming 7,500 visitors to the ark on one particular day. They also claim 10,500 for both museums on another particular day.
However, you also didn’t quote that they expect only 1,000,000 visitors this, which is 2,740 visitors per day. That number is also considerably less than the 2 million visitors they claimed would attend.
The adjective used to describe the frequency of 2,000 cars in the parking lot was “sometimes” and not “often” as you wrote. I can link to dictionary definitions if there are any questions concerning the difference.
The estimated tax revenue also is not dated. Was the estimate made prior to the opening? Not stated.
It’s possible that the venue itself isn’t losing money. However, they received considerable tax payer assistance on promises that local businesses would benefit, something which has not materialized.
Fair enough. It is largest timber frame building but not the world’s wooden building.
If the place really is not in financial trouble, he’s likely pretending it is to extract more concessions from the local and state governments. Atheists are just the whipping boy in either case.
For not showing up.
If an atheist goes into the ark, they will be instantly converted into a YEC christian. Then they can go get their atheist friends to come and be converted, and so on. It’s like multilevel marketing for your soul.
If only the atheists would cooperate with the plan, everything would be fine.