According to local news, Ken Ham's otherwise stagnant project,
"Ark Encounter" will be going forward after God answered the prayers of the faithful! Praise Jesus and grab the Family Passes!
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Creation Museum founder Ken Ham announced Thursday that a municipal bond offering has raised enough money to begin construction on the Ark Encounter project, estimated to cost about $73 million. Groundbreaking is planned for May and the ark is expected to be finished by the summer of 2016.
Ham said a high-profile evolution debate he had with "Science Guy" Bill Nye on Feb. 4 helped boost support for the project.
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Answers in Genesis unveiled the proposal in 2010 for a $150 million theme park that would include the ark. Private donations to the project did not keep pace with the construction timeline, forcing its backers to delay the ark's construction and divide the park development into phases. The LORD, however, has different plans for unleashing His Glory in typical 21st Century Americana Infotainment! The 800-acre "Ark Encounter" park that brings God's Hand to the digital age will feature a replica of the Tower of Babel, a recreation of a pre-Flood village (I can't wait to see the giants and half breed angel-human children: Genesis 6:4!), and most excitingly, a park ride through the 10 plagues of Egypt! There is nothing like watching a young, impressionable, vulnerable child who depends upon you to know how to keep him safe watch as life-sized dioramas depict such horrors as God murdering the oldest brother in his sleep! If children don't scream and fall into shock and give their lives to Jesus between the first gasp and the time they finally soil their little pants in terror, then Satan clearly has control of them and the parents might as well just leave them in the lost and found. Sometimes it's wise to know when to cut your losses and stop throwing pearl after swine, if you know what I mean (Matthew 7:6). Hey, just like God did!
True Christians™ will be prepared for the criticism, as atheopaths love to point out such frivolity as "science" and "charity" and all that kind of claptrap that isn't found anywhere in the Holy Bible. Surely some of them will refer to their New Atheist priesthood, like
Neil deGrasse Tyson, who wrote about science as an economic powerhouse in 2012, saying such lies as the Apollo program "produced technologies that have improved kidney dialysis and water purification systems; sensors to test for hazardous gases; energy-saving building materials; and fire-resistant fabrics used by firefighters and soldiers. And more broadly, the enormous investment of that era - in science and technology, in education and research funding - produced a great outpouring of curiosity and creativity, the benefits of which have been incalculable."
They may even include sinful machines invented, such as digital imaging, implantable pacemakers, collision-avoidance systems on aircraft, precision LASIK eye surgery, and global positioning satellites. But what purposes do any of these toys serve for Salvation? THAT is the question!
They may badger us to answer why does an organization dedicated to doing the work of Jesus not help the state population in more practical ways such as:
Funding the research and treatment of cancer
Feed hungry children.- One in four children in Kentucky do not know how they will receive their next meal. In 2012, the poverty rate in Kentucky jumped to 19.4 percent, or 823,000 people, making it the fifth poorest state in the U.S., according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Child poverty in particular increased from 23.5 percent in 2008 to 26.5 percent in 2012. And 35,891 public school students in Kentucky were homeless during the 2011-12 school year, Northern Kentucky News reported in March 2013.
What they need is HOPE, not a HAND OUT!
Stopping and reversing global warning
Protecting the environment
- Sure recent spills of such toxic sludge like coal ash seeping through the American south east may have made local fishing or running barefoot through the front lawn a bit more difficult, but let's face it, God is Sovereign and we need to spend more time educating children about things like T-Rex having arms too small to masturbate with. This is more likely to happen when school children take class trips to the "Ark Encounter" and watch their favorite dinosaurs drown, get bloated, and decompose with a stench strong enough to make Cthulhu recoil in disgust.
Of course we know the response to all these distractions are:
Are You Saved?
That is all that matters.
And that is why this museum is a Blessing!