Kentucky creationists planning big theme park...

[Archae]

Normally this would be just another tourist trap.

But Kentucky's taxpayers are going to be paying for this.
And if a Muslim group wanted to build their own theme park? They wouldn't get permission to build, much less all the tax money.

Disneyland has its castle and Epcot has its ball, but the centerpiece of a planned theme park in Kentucky will be something altogether different -- a full-scale replica of Noah's Ark.

Developers in Kentucky are drawing up plans for a $150 million theme park called the Ark Encounter, to be built on a biblical scale. The ark alone will be taller than a three-story building, the deck longer than 35 tennis courts. Constructed out of timber using dimensions from Genesis, planners say it will be big enough to fit 600 train cars inside.

Watch "World News with Diane Sawyer" for more on this story tonight on ABC.

"We think the ark and the account of Noah's flood, even though it happened 4,000 or 5,000 years ago, can actually speak volumes today to our culture," said Mark Looy, a developer of the park who co-founded the nearby Creation Museum.

The park won't have any rides, but plans suggest that there will be plenty to do. In addition to the full-scale wooden ark, there will be live stage shows, museums, theaters, a petting zoo, and even a Tower of Babel.

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/planned-noahs-ark-encounter-park-kentucky-sparks-church/story?id=12326873

[Drale]

1. I really don't know if there are enough "creationist" left

for them to make a profit. I know the media makes it feel like they are everywhere, but personally I don't know anyone who believe in the pure bible creationist story anymore.

[provis99]

3. about half of the American public are creationists.

That a whole lot of people.
http://people-press.org/commentary/?analysisid=118

[Drale]

5. You know as well as I do

just because the American public says they are something doesn't mean they are. Most Americans don't even think about what they believe, they just believe it because either they where told to or because they're parents did, but if they really sat down and thought about it, they would probably feel very different.

[Initech]

2. Between Kentucky's Noah's Ark replica, and Tennessee proclaiming Jesus returning on 5/21/11...

It's getting impossible to not make fun of southern Xtians on a daily basis.

[Drale]

4. There is always at least one person everyone generation

that claims that they know the exact date of either the return of Jesus, or the end of the world. They have always been wrong, and it doesn't matter if they are right because none of us will be alive to care about it.