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Noah's Ark to be Built in KY, Bill Nye Chagrined

posted by LaminatorX on Saturday March 01 2014, @04:00AM   
from the you-both-get-dirty-and-the-pig-likes-it dept.

McGruber writes:

"Following up on the Bil Nye and Ken Ham debate on Creationism, 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 credits the high-profile evolution debate he had with "Science Guy" Bill Nye on Feb. 4 with boosting support for the project.

After learning that the project would move forward, Nye said he was 'heartbroken and sickened for the Commonwealth of Kentucky,' lamenting that the ark would eventually draw more attention to the beliefs of Ham's Young-earth Creationist ministry. 'Voters and taxpayers in Kentucky will eventually see that this is not in their best interest.' Nye hopes."

• Global Warming Global Warming (Score: 4, Funny) by nobbis on Saturday March 01 2014, @04:23AM

  by nobbis (62) on Saturday March 01 2014, @04:23AM (#9021) Homepage Journal

  Are they hedging their bets on global warming ?
  Anyway I didn't RTFA , but will tickets be on sale ? - (only 2 per species presumably )
  and I really would like to see them get 2 of every animal on board, though things could get messy so best to visit in the first couple of days.

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  It's easy to look up when your mind's in the gutter

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• Re:Global Warming (Score: 4, Interesting) by c0lo on Saturday March 01 2014, @08:27AM

  by c0lo (156) on Saturday March 01 2014, @08:27AM (#9074)

  Anyway I didn't RTFA , but will tickets be on sale ?

  Yes [wikipedia.org]

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