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K1052 said:
It also has dinosaurs....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/noahs-ark-dinosaurs_us_577d9ff8e4b0344d514dea93

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goddammit, this actually does piss me off that the taxpayers of Kentucky got forced into paying for this pile of lies and blatant misinformation. This only harms children learning about history, it does nothing to help them understand the actual global history. fucking morons, only hurting future generations when they peddle this shit as truth.
 
runzwithsizorz said:
Actually, it kinda sounds like fun. Sort of like going to Ripley's believe it or not. Or going to a evolution museum, where they try to explain to you
how you can take a bunch of parts, some missing, put them in a box and shake it for a really, really, really, long time and come up with a piece of
machinery so complex, we can't even understand it.
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Oh, my wife and I would love to see it - it's an amazing reproduction. Unfortunately, I suspect that laughing at the dinosaurs might be . . . unhealthy.
 
K1052 said:
It also has dinosaurs....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/noahs-ark-dinosaurs_us_577d9ff8e4b0344d514dea93

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That picture looks like some dinosaurs came to see the fundamentalist exhibit. I can almost hear that kid breaking into "Sweet Chariot."

IronWing said:
Ticket prices for the Ark + museum
Adult (12+): $60
Child (5-12): $34
Eternal Salvation: priceless
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Holy crap! Cancel my tickets. Engineered wood and structural steel must be expensive.

Send dough
To the Ethel Show.
Send enough to carry you home.
 
Sheik Yerbouti said:
goddammit, this actually does piss me off that the taxpayers of Kentucky got forced into paying for this pile of lies and blatant misinformation. This only harms children learning about history, it does nothing to help them understand the actual global history. fucking morons, only hurting future generations when they peddle this shit as truth.
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Where's King Kong?

How about that Japanese Dinosaur that spewed Flames. Oh, and no Ultron? 🙁
 
What if God gets mad at this thread and makes it rain for forty days and forty nights and the only people who survive are the ones on the Ark? 😉
 
compuwiz1 said:
What if God gets mad at this thread and makes it rain for forty days and forty nights and the only people who survive are the ones on the Ark? 😉
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Guess we'd be in trouble. What if he orchestrated with the Tooth Fairy to have all our teeth removed and had the Easter Bunny eat all our crops ? 🙁 The horror!
 
OH....... So it's a theme park?
Like Dolly Land and Jim & Tammy's Heritage USA?
I think I'd rather go with the aliens from outer space creation thing.
Aliens impregnated neanderthals creating the human race.
At least we'd have a giant space ship theme park with alien anal probes.
No doubt an "A" ticket ride. 😉
 
OutHouse said:
not seeing why you got your panties in a wad over this. religion? other people beliefs? maybe you and all those no job having protestors need to see a counselor over your irrational anger towards this.
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$17 million of public (state) money invested in it. Government funding of religion is against the very essence of the USA. Further, no gays, etc. allowed as employees, Christians only and single employees have to sign chastity oaths.
 
compuwiz1 said:
What if God gets mad at this thread and makes it rain for forty days and forty nights and the only people who survive are the ones on the Ark? 😉
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You think that thing is going to float?

Since they used "true biblical measurements" (never mind the complete lack of maintaining materiel and labor..."accuracy") you would think they would have thought to test this thing by trying to get it to float. You know, to further prove that it existed.
 
Thump553 said:
$17 million of public (state) money invested in it. Government funding of religion is against the very essence of the USA. Further, no gays, etc. allowed as employees, Christians only and single employees have to sign chastity oaths.
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There is no government money invested in it. A court ruled that as a for profit entity they would be eligible for a $18M sales tax rebate as a tourist attraction under a state program. They have to make a lot of money first to qualify for the rebate.
 
zinfamous said:
You think that thing is going to float?

Since they used "true biblical measurements" (never mind the complete lack of maintaining materiel and labor..."accuracy") you would think they would have thought to test this thing by trying to get it to float. You know, to further prove that it existed.
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Apparently they don't have enough faith in god. :colbert:
 
Thump553 said:
$17 million of public (state) money invested in it.
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Invested isn't the word I would use. Funds were raised via a bond sale so those were bought (and therefore financed) by whatever non-government entities bought the bonds. There is the $18M sales tax rebate but thats not an investment and is only the cap. It actually has to be successful for the Ark to make use of that.

They did get some extra land for cheap but thats not exactly noteworthy in the commercial developer world
 
Cerpin Taxt said:
Ridiculously false beliefs do not deserve respect. They deserve ridicule.
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Until someone gets offended and gets violent at those ridiculing them, then those ridiculing are called bigots/racists and their criticizing is called hate speech by the apologists.
 
Cerpin Taxt said:
Good thing nobody believes that.

Of course, the sudden appearance and then subsequent almost instantaneous disappearance of a volume of water sufficient to cover the entire surface of the earth... That totally happened.

Where did it come from? Where did it go? God magic, of course! That's science!
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My favorite one is to get around the fact an ark couldn't have fit enough animals to have two of every species they hand wave it away with just having two of every "kind" of animal and letting them evolve (heh) into their modern counterparts. Of course this means for 6000 years you'd have to see multiple speciation events per day, every day to create the diversity of animals we observe today. Which of course we don't.
 
If someone spends $60 to mock fellow human beings beliefs then they may deserve the beating they receive. I am atheist. I don't particularly care for public money (roads, cops, emergency medical and so forth) spent on private project. I am not getting up early, driving, paying to look down my nose at someone else. (although I do feel like they are a rube being taken in) It isn't my business.
 
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