Yes, it's done like the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular show.
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Kentucky's $100M "Ark Encounter" is Failing
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Try driving through Compton, CA every day. I pray for potholes to get filled in every goddamn afternoon.
And even WITH all the income-tax I pay, they ain't fucking getting filled in. Not sure if this is god's fault or the retarded city management of Compton.
I couldn't do it - I couldn't, in good conscience, give these anti-science people money, not even for the amusement value. I'd rather these places burn to the ground or go away entirely than give them a single cent. I'm just glad I live somewhere that doesn't put up shrines to fairy tales at taxpayer expense.
what is it with Christians having all this cool ass mythology and history and just consistently making the most boring bullshit possible with it
it's probably intentional, to focus just on the most inane details that couldn't possibly clash with the bizarre prosperity gospel beliefs of most American protestants, but man... it's like they have a programmed need to make their religion seem like the most mundane, arbitrary thing possible.
it's probably intentional, to focus just on the most inane details that couldn't possibly clash with the bizarre prosperity gospel beliefs of most American protestants, but man... it's like they have a programmed need to make their religion seem like the most mundane, arbitrary thing possible.
I was gonna say I might be ok with all this if at the end they had a life sized statue of Steve Carell you could take pictures with.
I'm a Christian and I've been to the ark once. I really think the main issue is the ticket price. It's just too expensive for a lot of families. People would rather go to the aquarium, Zoo, or Kings island.
It's been done to death. Spend some time in Italy or Spain and you will see that all the good ideas have been done ad nauseaum.
People who can comfortably afford the tickets are too well educated to be creationist
People who are uneducated enough to be creationist are likely balking at the price
People who are uneducated enough to be creationist are likely balking at the price
I saw an ad for this on TV a week or two ago and I wasn't sure what it was because the ad was so vague but I was interested and kept watching, so at the end when "the Ark Encounter" popped up onscreen with happy religious music playing I legitimately bust out laughing. Just something about the experience was hysterical to me.
Loving the steel girders. Truly period accurate.For years and years when I went back and forth between Maryland and West Virginia, I would pass a sign on I-68 outside of Frostburg, MD that said, "Noah's Ark being rebuilt here." For decades I would think about taking the exit and seeing it, because I assumed it was out-of-sight off the highway. Nope. On one trip in 1999, bam!
It wasn't off the highway, it had just never been built at all. And there's been no progress on it since.
Fun fact: See the crosses in front of the ark? There are 1,864 sets of those in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and in Zambia and the Philippines. West Virginia has the most with 352. They were raised by WV native Bernard Coffindaffer. He was a millionaire who spent his entire fortune on his project. Even though I'm not religious I always feel a little home state pride in seeing them.
And it's failing because Christians may have been born again, but they weren't born again yesterrrdayyyy
There's plenty of them who believe the nonsense presented but they just can't afford to go.
How much money you make is not a function of how educated you are.
I'm surprised they don't have like a place you can go to get baptized. Seems like a no brainer. Like tie the whole thing into the flood and such. You could be on a non-believer's boat that gets lowered under the water; then when you come back up you get raised up to Noah's Ark because now you've given your life to Jesus and so you get saved both physically and spiritually.
Doesn't have to be that dramatic, but seems a missed opportunity. Imagine telling people you got baptized on Noah's Ark? $50 ticket price + $50 for the baptism + could sell commemorative photos of the event. Get your baptism printed on a t-shirt, etc. Even give discounted admission prices when you bring 10 or more people to watch you be baptized on the ark. Whole churches would probably come out for the event if you made it spectacular enough. Get like 5 or so people who want to be baptized, raise the money, tons of people get to go and watch, make a full day of it on the ark.
Doesn't have to be that dramatic, but seems a missed opportunity. Imagine telling people you got baptized on Noah's Ark? $50 ticket price + $50 for the baptism + could sell commemorative photos of the event. Get your baptism printed on a t-shirt, etc. Even give discounted admission prices when you bring 10 or more people to watch you be baptized on the ark. Whole churches would probably come out for the event if you made it spectacular enough. Get like 5 or so people who want to be baptized, raise the money, tons of people get to go and watch, make a full day of it on the ark.
The STRANGEST thing of all, is all the astronomy science they presented was ACCURATE. They would just add in... and I'm quoting verbatim: "Secular astronomers would have you believe that light couldn't travel this distance in only 6000 years. But through the use of gravitational wells and time dilation, it is entirely possible!"
LIKE COME ON.
Take away the religion, it's a pretty weird yet neat dinosaur/space musuem.
How many times did they expect people to visit that thing? More than once? Seems like once you've seen it there really isn't any reason to go see it again.
Louisville or Lexington? Both of these are places are moderate and could pass as suburbia in many major cities in the US. Though rural Kentucky is something else.
it would be handy if the coming apocalypse was flood-based.
checkmate atheists
Haven't been to it even though it's pretty close to Cincinnati. No real desire to go. Just a waste of money. It could've been much better spent elsewhere.
Regardless how its doing financially it is an impressive structure. I would pay to just admire it as a structure.
Love how every picture you see of the park, is old white people. Almost never see a single child in any of the pics.
wow that Pizza 'N' Wings sign in front of a recreation of the biblical ark is like peak 'Murica
Amazing. Only in the US would some super devout person make it his life work to recreate a piece of the bible and then put up signs with hilariously heretical puns in devotion to Mammon.
I thought this looked familiar.For years and years when I went back and forth between Maryland and West Virginia, I would pass a sign on I-68 outside of Frostburg, MD that said, "Noah's Ark being rebuilt here." For decades I would think about taking the exit and seeing it, because I assumed it was out-of-sight off the highway. Nope. On one trip in 1999, bam!
It wasn't off the highway, it had just never been built at all. And there's been no progress on it since.
Fun fact: See the crosses in front of the ark? There are 1,864 sets of those in 29 states, the District of Columbia, and in Zambia and the Philippines. West Virginia has the most with 352. They were raised by WV native Bernard Coffindaffer. He was a millionaire who spent his entire fortune on his project. Even though I'm not religious I always feel a little home state pride in seeing them.
Forget that, they're charging $19 bucks a cup for that!!
Unlimited refills and those sizes, makes sense they don't believe in science so they probably think diabetes is a hoax
You can go to Holiday World a few hours north of this trainwreck and get unlimited SODA completely free with the ticket price, not even refills just straight up soda. AND sunscreen so you can at least counterbalance the health destruction slightly by not getting skin cancer.
Hell Holiday World has cheaper ticket prices than this place from the get go and it's an actual freaking theme park. You could live right next to this disaster and the difference would cover the day of gas money it'd take to drive to southern Indiana instead of wasting your time buying tickets to something you've seen all of before you even pay admission. I know full well which one most coupon cutting fundie moms are picking and it ain't the boat I'll tell you that much.
Ashland. I talked to a friend earlier that lives her also and he had heard of this place. But his mom and step dad are very religious so he had heard about it through them.
To be fair, the point was that the Rainbow was the symbol God sent to Noah to indicate the new covenant he formed with humanity and that the flood was over. I.e. he wouldn't murder the entire population of the earth again. That's what they mean when they talk about taking it back.
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