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"Good Incentives Gone Awry: Kentucky Officials Are Adamant About Propping Up The 'Ark Park'"
Consider the case of the "Ark Park" in Kentucky. An outgrowth of the Creation Museum, the Ark Park - an attraction that will supposedly feature a replica of Noah's Ark (more accurately, a replica of what some fundamentalist believes Noah's Ark looked like) - has been mired in controversy for years.
The attraction is clearly designed to promote fundamentalist views of the Bible, views that stand in sharp contrast to modern science. The man behind the park, Australian creationist Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis, seems to have, at best, shaky funding for the enterprise.
Yet despite all of this, Kentucky officials are rushing to pledge taxpayer support for the park. Most recently, the Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Board voted unanimously last week to approve a package of tax breaks for the park, which is formally known as the Ark Encounter. The incentives total $18 million.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2014/8/4/11452/37460
The attraction is clearly designed to promote fundamentalist views of the Bible, views that stand in sharp contrast to modern science. The man behind the park, Australian creationist Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis, seems to have, at best, shaky funding for the enterprise.
Yet despite all of this, Kentucky officials are rushing to pledge taxpayer support for the park. Most recently, the Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Board voted unanimously last week to approve a package of tax breaks for the park, which is formally known as the Ark Encounter. The incentives total $18 million.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2014/8/4/11452/37460
Where is the 18 million for the Liberal Christians to promote the reconciliation of evolution and Christianity, and the 18 million for atheists to call Ken Ham a deluded nutjob and the Bible a book of fairy tales, and the 18 million for Muslims to explain why Ken Ham is wrong to equate Jesus with God, and 18 million for the Wiccans to point out that good science is necessary for taking care of Mother Earth, and so on and so forth?
