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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."
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Saturday March 01 2014, @05:49AM
Presumably they won't try to move it on the ocean as it would deform and probably break in two like previous very large wooden ships have. I expect it will get hosed down in chemical preservatives that obviously would not have existed back in Noah's time, lest it rot away in short order. Are they going to build it without modern machinery like cranes? Considering the technology and number of labourers available to Noah that would be a quite incredible feat, in the literal sense of the word.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)