Ship of Fools: Ark Encounter

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :

Oh my. It's happening. The launch is in two days' time.

The pope of American fundamentalism, Ken Ham, is launching Ark Encounter. Do have a scroll through the website and decide whether to laugh or cry. Amongst the few gems I found, they described their centrepiece as as "modern engineering marvel", which seems rather ironic.

Their ticketing page even manages to be patronising:

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40 Days and 40 Nights: Referencing the number of days and nights it rained during the Flood, Ark Encounter is offering extended hours (9:00 a.m. to midnight) for the first forty days and forty nights

Yet they also offer a pass for 7 consecutive days. Now I like Whipsnade zoo (I even used to work there) but I wouldn't want to visit as a tourist every day for a whole week, and I doubt that anything Answers in Genesis puts together is going to as entertaining or informative as what the Zoological Society of London do. [brick wall]

Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :

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Originally posted by Sipech:
The pope of American fundamentalism, Ken Ham,

Is Australian. Any chance of The Wall keeping such undesirables out?

Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

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Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:

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Originally posted by Sipech:
The pope of American fundamentalism, Ken Ham,
Is Australian. Any chance of The Wall keeping such undesirables out?

Keep 'em all in the Ark?

Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :

Just rename the attraction Arkham.

Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

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Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
Just rename the attraction Arkham.

LOL, but gives a bad name to my love, Harley.

Posted by Ariston (# 10894) on :

As the kind of person who's a sucker for a good jackalope-infused roadside attraction or "giant pagoda in the park" folly, this is pretty cool. Granted, I wish they'd used traditional timber framing methods during construction, but I understand that can get pretty expensive and maintenance intensive. When the whole thing goes belly-up because they're honestly expecting that 4,000 car parking lot to ever be filled in order to finance the thing, I'll be booking my stay at the hotel that takes its place.

I do have some questions as to how someone sculpts "the Tyrannosaurus kind," though, especially given that it looks more like a dromaeosaurid.

Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

It is no House on the Rock, but I would go there.

Edited to remove the official, quite horrible, website for a better one.

[ 06. July 2016, 17:32: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

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Originally posted by Ariston:
As the kind of person who's a sucker for a good jackalope-infused roadside attraction or "giant pagoda in the park" folly, this is pretty cool. Granted, I wish they'd used traditional timber framing methods during construction, but I understand that can get pretty expensive and maintenance intensive. When the whole thing goes belly-up because they're honestly expecting that 4,000 car parking lot to ever be filled in order to finance the thing, I'll be booking my stay at the hotel that takes its place.

I do have some questions as to how someone sculpts "the Tyrannosaurus kind," though, especially given that it looks more like a dromaeosaurid.

Ah yes, 'kinds'. Isn't that where they massively reduce the number of taxa to fit them all on the ark, then propose rates of post-flood evolution far beyond Darwin's wildest dreams in order to explain the modern biodiversity apparently already achieved by historical times?

Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on :

Number from March 2015 National Geographic piece on 'The War on Science'.

A third of Americans believe humans have existed in their present form since time began.

[ 07. July 2016, 12:05: Message edited by: Penny S ]

Posted by Callan (# 525) on :

Originally posted by Sipech:

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The pope of American fundamentalism, Ken Ham

Ably assisted, no doubt, by his colleagues Chuck Shem and Larry Japheth.

Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

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Originally posted by Penny S:
Number from March 2015 National Geographic piece on 'The War on Science'.

A third of Americans believe humans have existed in their present form since time began.

It is no great wonder, then, that they may well elect Trump.

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Originally posted by Callan:
Originally posted by Sipech:

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The pope of American fundamentalism, Ken Ham
Ably assisted, no doubt, by his colleagues Chuck Shem and Larry Japheth.

I saw Shem(p) and Larry and first thought it was a Three Stooges reference.

Posted by UKCanuck (# 10780) on :

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
It is no House on the Rock, but I would go there.

Is that the place that's featured in Neil Gaiman's "American Gods"? I'd love to see that! The Ark Encounter, not so much.

Posted by lilBuddha (# 14333) on :

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Originally posted by UKCanuck:

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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
It is no House on the Rock, but I would go there.

Is that the place that's featured in Neil Gaiman's "American Gods"? I'd love to see that! The Ark Encounter, not so much.

Yes! See it and, for a moment, you believe the book to be more than fiction.

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