{"id":8643,"date":"2018-08-07T19:39:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T23:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8643"},"modified":"2018-08-08T10:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:17:43","slug":"i-speculated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8643","title":{"rendered":"I speculated …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… a couple of years ag<\/a>o that Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter might contribute to undermining the Inerrant Bible.<\/p>\n

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Ken Ham may be accomplishing what hundreds of years of education have failed to accomplish: He might be enabling even witless dullards to understand that there\u2019s a lot of make-believe in the Bible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well … what do you know? Attendance figures still<\/i> aren’t making target<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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They were supposed to come two by two, or better yet, stuffed into minivans and tour buses, but tourists to Kentucky\u2019s life-sized Noah\u2019s Ark attraction so far seem fine being left out in the rain.<\/p>\n

The Ark Encounter has sold just over 860,000 tickets in the past year, according to the (Louisville, KY) Courier Journal, which obtained the numbers via a Freedom of Information request. That\u2019s just one third of the high-end estimates park officials made when the attraction opened in 2016.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heh. What they need to do is market it as an offbeat amusement park, and stop trying to peddle the idea that the Noah story is true, because anybody with a smidgen of brains is going to look at that ridiculous thing and know out-of-hand that it wasn’t built by a 480-year old man and his 3-sons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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