Hooo-weeee! Look what the state of Kaintucky is gittin' for $37 million!

This ain't gonna be free: the state guvmint is kickin' in $37 million in tax incentives to help a gang of Bible-totin' theocrats build a fancy Disneyland for ignoramuses. This is what it's gonna look like, they think:


Lookie there: the centerpiece will be a genuwine, life-sized, full scale copy of Noah's very own ark, all 300 cubits by 50 cubits by 30 cubits of it, and they say it's gonna be built with materials and methods as close to possible as the ones in the Bible. Where they gettin' gopherwood? And are they really gonna build it with handsaws and mallets and wooden pegs? That's gotta be impressive, but it's gonna be tough to git'r done by 2014.

But wait a consarned minute: it ain't floatin'. And there's no talk of stockin' it with 8,000 pairs of animals, or however many they say there ought to be in there. I'll give 'em a pass on fillin' it with dinosaurs (well, maybe not…some say they're daid, but the folk at AiG say they're just hidin'), but I want elephants and hippos and giraffes and sheep and pigs and cassowaries and kangaroos and rhinoceroses and monkeys and squirrels and everythin' tucked in there, to give me the true and odoriferous varmint-rich Ark Experience.

They also claim this big ol' project is going to make 900 jobs in Kentucky. I don't believe it. Read your Bible. The original Ark did float, and it did carry a whole menagerie, and it only employed eight people. They're cuttin' corners here with their non-floatin' critter-free ark, so I'm expectin' they'll hire six, at most. And that's generous.

OK, and maybe a couple more to sell tickets, and a few more to hand out kewpie dolls at the booths, and sell cotton candy. But heck, you can just hire a bunch of carnies to do that, and they work cheap.

They'll be especially cheap since Governor Beshears is workin' hard to make sure the entire freakin' state of Kentucky is populated with people qualified to work as carnies, and not much else. Yeehaw!


http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/12/hooo-weeee_look_what_the_state.php

at least it is in a state i'll never go to...

So people that believe the bible are ignorant? Wow you just beam of religious tolerance don't you.

From my perspective it was a humerouse take on a real story. here it is straight.

A creationism-themed amusement park is coming to Kentucky in 2014, the state's governor Steve Beshear announced on Wednesday.

The park, which Kentucky expects to draw more than a million visitors each year, is projected to cost $150 million, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.

"Make no mistake about it," Beshear said, according to the paper. "This is a huge deal."

The amusement park will include a 500-foot-long wooden replica of Noah’s Ark complete with live animals, according to the project's website.

"We are constructing a full-scale, all-wood ark based on the dimensions provided in the Bible (Genesis 6), using the long cubit, and in accordance with sound established nautical engineering practices of the era," wrote Ark Encounters, one of the groups behind the project.

The ark is a collaboration between Ark Encounters LLC, a for-profit company, and a non-profit company, Answers in Genesis, which runs the Creation Museum — a museum that educates children about the Bible through interactive exhibits in Petersburg, KY.

The park also plans on having a Walled City, Tower of Babel, "first-century Middle Eastern village", a journey in history and a petting zoo.

While Beshear and other local politicians are convinced the park will float through any regulatory battles, some are questioning whether the millions in tax breaks that the group will receive for tourism violates the separation between church and state.

But those concerns didn’t seem to temper the excitement of Beshear who said the ark would bring at least a cover from the rough economy — the creators of the park expect it will bring 900 jobs to the area.

"There's nothing that's even remotely, unconstitutional about a for-profit organization coming in and investing a $150 million to create jobs in Kentucky and bring tourism to Kentucky," he said.

If tax breaks from the state aren't enough, the theme park also has a place on its website where people can donate money to help build the ark — and everything surrounding it.

And it already has the complete support of its future home, Grant County, Kentucky where a local county judge-executive told reporters that he was thrilled to welcome the ark.

"I think this project accentuates the faith of the people and the values of the people in Grant County tremendously," he told the Courier-Journal.

While it will be the biggest, the amusement park isn't the first Bible-related park. The Holy Land Experience theme park in Orlando, Florida gives visitors the chance to participate in a mock-Last Supper, visit a replica of the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, watch a variety of Christian movies and more.

A proposal for a similar park in 2007, Bible Park USA, faced fierce opposition in nearby Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

nmandell@nydailynews.com



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/12/02/2010-12-02_creationismthemed_amusment_park_heading_to_northern_kentucky_will_have_fullsize_.html#ixzz170kgqhMH

make it 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high

Creationism

before generalizations commence....I would like to go on record to say I don't think the state should do this. This should be a private business (not sure I would ever go any way)

IMO if the state does this, I hope they plan on doing this for evolutionists, etc

What part of Texas is Kentucky in my darling yellow rose?

bite me madman. ya know I'm not banned from going to KY if I want to. the restraining order has been lifted

and where did I say this was about Texas? FOCUS!!!

You obviously don't have the slightest idea how Government and business relations work.The state gives tax breaks and grants to business of every kind you can think of from movie theaters to baseball parks to give them incentives to build in that state.Many times large hotels,theme parks,baseball fields,concert arenas,and other large venues will pitch there ideas to various states and cities to see who is going to offer the best deal in tax breaks.Many times not only do these competing cities offer huge tax breaks they even finance the project with their own money because simple math will tell them they will make much more on their return in taxes from tourist and the new business that will be built next to that attraction.It is common sense to anyone educated in business that the more business you bring into a state the more tax revenue you will have and the more jobs you will create.


This wouldn't matter if it was a mega church or a museum devoted to Atheism.You have a new business that will bring jobs,tax revenue,and construction at a time when it was desperately needed.Only a total dumba** would say no to this project and watch it being built in the state next to theirs.


I also think this state looked at the huge success of Kentucky's creation museum that people much like yourself laughed at and said would be a flop.


http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2008-10-10-creation-museum-attendance_N.htm


Kentucky's Creation Museum reports 550,000 visitors since opening

LOUISVILLE — The museum exhibits are taken from the Old Testament, but the special effects are pure Hollywood: a state-of-the-art planetarium, animatronics and a massive model of Noah's Ark, all intended to explain the origins of the universe from a biblical viewpoint.
The Creation Museum, which teaches life's beginnings through a literal interpretation of the Bible, is claiming attendance figures that would make it an unexpectedly strong draw less than a year and a half after it debuted. More than a half-million people have toured the Kentucky attraction since its May 2007 opening, museum officials said.

Louisville has all kinds of cool museums..........

yeah, personally, once you call it a theme park, its as valid and non controversial as disney land


we have a very well published book, whether its believed or not, it becomes kind of obvious all the ways in which it can be used as a theme and I dont see why it shouldnt be,,,,

Just one story of thousands.


http://pddnet.com/news-ap-ohio-tax-breaks-lead-to-91-percent-job-success-071110/

Ohio tax breaks lead to 91 percent job success


An Ohio program that offers companies tax breaks to create jobs has a 91 percent success rate, according to data compiled by the state.

Records released to The Columbus Dispatch for a Sunday report show that Ohio has given incentives amounting to about $525 million through the Department of Development's job-creation tax-credit program since 1993. The money has gone toward 955 projects of which 875 have made it beyond the three-year period during which companies promise to meet certain job and investment goals.

Overall, 91 percent of promised jobs have materialized; of the 875 projects past the three-year point, 92 percent of promised jobs have been created.

The newspaper reports that the state also took 182 enforcement actions in 2009 against companies that did not make good on promises. That compares with 107 in 2008 and 18 in 2007. Officials also have sought to retrieve about $10.6 million from 70 projects that closed down before meeting obligations.

Being a bit harsh on my Home state arent we?

Well to be fair it is almost Cincinnati Ohio



It is the world's largest Hogwash exhibit!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Museum

So are you saying the medling government actualy works? I totaly disagree though in regards to tax breaks the local governments being starved of funding raises your local taxes or cuts back on services.

With our unemployment troubles I would have to say that the american system is broken. Al these creative solutions have only increased our troubles in unforseen ways. Now more than ever it seems we need religion it truly is the opiate of the masses.