Complete with dinosaurs on Noah's Ark...What better way to boost the Kentucky economy than with a creationist theme park? In a press release this afternoon, Gov. Steve Beshear announced that the state had struck a deal with Ark Encounter LLC—the same people behind Kentucky's Creation Museum—to start building the $150 million park, which, naturally, will have a "full-scale Noah's Ark," live animal shows, and "a first-century Middle Eastern village." There will also be a "replica of the Tower of Babel with exhibits, a 500-seat 5-D special effects theater," and an aviary, for good measure. According to the release, the park is expected to generate 900 jobs and $250 million in revenue for Kentucky, and Gawker's Jim Newell catches that it will also get them $37.5 million in tax breaks. The park is expected to open in northern Kentucky in the spring of 2014.Source
Personally I don't buy it. My two favorite theories on what really happened...
Message to Kentucky: I am not laughing at you... really...
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But the true irony will be when its built: Will the exhibits themselves evolve?
those comics are brilliant...where did you get that colouring page? that can't be for real, lol
I LOVE that Far Side cartoon of the dinosaurs with cigarettes.
The Noah's Ark one, however, would have been perfect with a couple of unicorns perched on the rock, too. They were, after all, the loveliest of them all. :)
A lot of us here in Kentucky are mortified, believe me. I suspect Beshear is interested only in the possibility that it will make money for the state-which I doubt.
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