Not sure how many of you know that one of Baboon-ou's heroes . . . christian fundamentalist, pseudoscientist and young earth creationist Ken Ham . . . has rebuilt Noah's ark to scale in Williamstown, Kentucky and has turned it into a theme park that he calls the Ark Encounter.
This is not a joke. Here is a link . . . and here's a pic:
Whenever I'm discussing young earth creationists like Baboon-ou and Ken Ham, I always feel the need to explain to people that these delusional and brainwashed morons actually believe that everything in the bible should be taken literally meaning that earth is not 4.5 billion years old as scientists would have us believe, it's actually less than 10 000 years old. This creates a small problem for them because they can't deny the proven existence of dinosaur fossils so they have to incorporate dinosaurs into the Young Earth Fairytale meaning that man and dinosaurs would have co-existed before the Big Flood. Sure as nuts, here's one of the Ark Encounter exhibitions:
You can almost hear that chap in the foreground warning his neighbours that the velociraptor is back!
LMAO!
This also raises the question of why the velociraptors and other dinosaurs missed the boat so to speak and why Noah selected certain species and not others . . . not to mention how he managed to get hold of breedings pairs of arctic foxes, kangaroos, ring-tailed lemurs and jaguars that all happened to be strolling around the deserts near Mount Ararat, but that's another story.
The fact is, there are not nearly as many stupid people in the USA as Ham thought because sales for his Ark Encounter have been rather disappointing and instead of the millions of tourists he promised, only a handful of the most dull-witted christian zealots waste their money visiting the Ark which by all accounts is just plain boring . . . even for bible-bashing half-wits. This is all despite the fact that Ham managed to use taxpayers funds to build this monstrosity, using tax rebates and government incentives (and only using workers and builders who made declarations of christian faith). You can read more about the "funding" for this "project" here.
Ham is blaming "intolerant atheists" and "fake news" for the financial disaster that is the Ark Encounter. He's sounding like someone else I know. At night, the Ark is lit up by the colours of the rainbow because Ham is trying to take back the rainbow symbol that he says was stolen by the LGBT community. Again, that is not a joke. You can read it here.
I'd like to know from Baboon-ou is he's visited the Ark yet or if he is planning to visit?