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The first phase is estimated to cost $73 million, according to Bloomberg. About $14 million had been raised before the bond sale, which was supposed to make up the difference, but Ham said that Ark Encounter has had no institutional investors buy its bonds
The Christian nonprofit Answers in Genesis, the group behind Ark Encounter, has sold unrated municipal bonds worth $26.5 million, but needs to sell another $29 million by Feb. 6 to avoid triggering redemption of what's already been sold
Vasa Croe
$73 Million for something Noah supposedly did by himself, or with the help of few?
Vasa Croe
I don't see this one lasting very long, but lets add a conspiracy in here....maybe, just maybe they are actually making a working ark because they know something....LOL!!!!!
A mold-resistant bean, a German pink tomato and a wild strawberry plucked from the flanks of a Russian volcano are just some of the crops whose seeds are being tucked away this week in a giant vault dug out of a mountainside of the Norwegian island Svalbard.
With these new deposits, the so-called Svalbard "Doomsday" Global Seed Vault will reach its half-million mark of seed varieties. The giant icebox of sorts, which was officially opened on Feb. 26, 2008, is meant to protect the world's crop diversity from natural or manmade disasters.
Biigs
Vasa Croe
$73 Million for something Noah supposedly did by himself, or with the help of few?
I dont think Noah put theme park rides in his ark for the animals!!
As for Ark Encounter, so far, land has been purchased, design work has been completed, and Amish builders from Indiana have been enlisted for construction. The ark is expected to cost about $21 million, of which the ministry has raised more than $8 million (supporters can sponsor a peg for $100; a “Lifetime Charter Boarding Pass” is available for $3,000 per family). When I asked Zovath whether his project was really achievable—whether he could safely and efficiently fabricate a multimillion-dollar tourist attraction to God’s specifications, using only wooden pegs, planks, beams, and whatever else might have been available to Noah—he didn’t hesitate.
“It’s certainly possible,” he said. “It was done a few thousand years ago.”
My questions about other specifics were met with a quick, relentless defense. How did eight people feed and clean up after several thousand wild animals? Conveyor belts. How did Noah pack enough food for everyone? He pelletized it. What kept all the animals from eating each other? The hand of God.
“We don’t want anyone to think we’re just making things up,” said Marsh, who is Ark Encounter’s design director.
One team of advisers, led by Georgia Purdom, who has a doctorate in molecular genetics from Ohio State University, is attempting to compile a definitive list of which animals would have been required to re-speciate the Earth in Noah’s time. According to the Answers in Genesis Web site, God allowed for the “potential for tremendous variety within the original created kinds.” Through “genetic mutations and other mechanisms,” those original kinds generated the “great diversity of living things we see today.” Although by some estimates nearly 8 million species of animals are thought to inhabit the planet right now, Answers in Genesis believes that Noah would have needed just 2,000 to 4,000 “original kinds” for his ark—which helps explain how everyone managed to fit. The original created kind later yielded all other kinds: the ur-dog begat wolves, dingoes, foxes, Great Danes, poodles, and so on. “We’re trying to define—and it’s never been done before, we’re breaking new ground—how many dogs make up a dog-kind, and what does that dog-kind look like?,” Zovath said.
Vasa Croe
If he truly wanted to make a statement he would build it in the same manner with the same number of people that were used, but alas, I don't think that information is available.
Prezbo369
They know that it'd be a one trick pony just like the 'Creation' museum with no new information, no new displays or exhibits (unlike real museums...), just the same old tired and literal interpretations of the bible and it'd fail just as hard.
Maybe they'll include a few new tyrannosaur saddle designs though...
edit on 8-1-2014 by Prezbo369 because: (no reason given)
Vasa Croe
Imagine that....another failed creationist themepark....can anyone name one that has actually opened and stayed open? This one may not even open at all.
Krazysh0t
Here is a good reason that the story that Noah put two of every animal on the planet is bunk. Termites. Would you seriously consider putting ANY number of termites on a WOODEN ship with you to spend countless days on?
Also, how did Noah collect 2 of every microscopic animal on the planet? You know the one-celled organisms and all.
interupt42
Vasa Croe
Imagine that....another failed creationist themepark....can anyone name one that has actually opened and stayed open? This one may not even open at all.
www.holylandexperience.com...
However, it does look like a risky business to get into. Then again The Passion of the Christ did pretty well with the religious crowd.
Vasa Croe
I am sorry but I just really have to laugh at this quote.....
My questions about other specifics were met with a quick, relentless defense. How did eight people feed and clean up after several thousand wild animals? Conveyor belts. How did Noah pack enough food for everyone? He pelletized it. What kept all the animals from eating each other? The hand of God.
“We don’t want anyone to think we’re just making things up,” said Marsh, who is Ark Encounter’s design director.
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So Answers in Genesis, who according to this article are "devoted to defending the Christian faith via a literal reading of the Bible, without allowances for allegory" is stating that Noah built conveyor belts to handle all the animals, pelletized food and the hand of God kept the animals from eating each other...LOL Then they say they don't want anyone to think they are just making things up?
So then there is this quote from them as well....
One team of advisers, led by Georgia Purdom, who has a doctorate in molecular genetics from Ohio State University, is attempting to compile a definitive list of which animals would have been required to re-speciate the Earth in Noah’s time. According to the Answers in Genesis Web site, God allowed for the “potential for tremendous variety within the original created kinds.” Through “genetic mutations and other mechanisms,” those original kinds generated the “great diversity of living things we see today.” Although by some estimates nearly 8 million species of animals are thought to inhabit the planet right now, Answers in Genesis believes that Noah would have needed just 2,000 to 4,000 “original kinds” for his ark—which helps explain how everyone managed to fit. The original created kind later yielded all other kinds: the ur-dog begat wolves, dingoes, foxes, Great Danes, poodles, and so on. “We’re trying to define—and it’s never been done before, we’re breaking new ground—how many dogs make up a dog-kind, and what does that dog-kind look like?,” Zovath said.
So wait...you mean there weren't two of every living thing as the bible stated? But I thought Answers in Genesis said everything in the bible happened literally.
This project is a joke and is making a mockery of the Christian religion I think. While I am not a religious person nor believe in the bible in the least, I would think that anyone that is a Christian would be pissed about this guy building this theme park and jumping to wild speculation about something that has never been proven.