{"id":421,"date":"2012-01-25T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2012\/01\/heigh-ho-heigh-ho-onto-the-ark-we-go.html"},"modified":"2012-01-25T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T20:11:00","slug":"heigh-ho-heigh-ho-onto-the-ark-we-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2012\/01\/heigh-ho-heigh-ho-onto-the-ark-we-go.html","title":{"rendered":"Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho…Onto The Ark We Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I just took a few days off to go to Walt Disney World with my daughter and we had a great time.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Fantasyland, there is another legend that\u2019s getting its own theme park, but this time it\u2019s in Kentucky and called \u201cArk Encounter.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 It\u2019s a production of Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis<\/a>, the people who brought you the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky.<\/p>\n

Ark Encounter is intended to be a genuine, full-scale replica of Noah\u2019s actual, real-life ark!\u00a0 Having just seen Cinderella\u2019s castle, a genuine, full-scale replica of Cinderella\u2019s actual real-life castle, I\u2019m stoked.\u00a0 Like Cinderella\u2019s castle, Noah\u2019s ark will be the hub of related fun like a replica of the Tower of Babel, a walled city and other attractions.<\/p>\n

All joking aside, unlike the Disney parks, Ark Encounter regards its legends as the unmitigated truth \u2013 science, logic and common sense be damned.\u00a0 If anything, its visitors will leave the new park even more scientifically literate than when they entered.<\/p>\n

What is even sadder than the fact that millions of dollars are being wasted to build this inanity is that while Kentucky is cutting $50 million from its education budget, the governor has managed to find $43 million in tax incentives and infrastructure improvements to benefit the Ark Encounter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In one of the most spectacularly mis-prioritized state budgets in recent memory, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear (D), is suggesting over $50 million in cuts to education<\/a> \u2013 while preserving $43 million in tax breaks<\/a> for the Ark Encounter<\/a>, a creationist amusement park centered around a life-sized Noah\u2019s Ark. The park is sponsored by Answers In Genesis, a non-profit organization that promotes a \u201cliteralist\u201d interpretation of the Book of Genesis while promoting an anti-evolution (and other sciences) agenda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite the protests of many of my fellow secular advocates, there\u2019s probably nothing illegal about this.\u00a0 The state might even eventually see some return on its investment.\u00a0 This should not comfort us because in the long run it is just one more example of how real educational needs are de-prioritized while religion continues to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

Disney also received lots of tax incentives and cushy deals to build its parks in Florida.\u00a0 But at least Disney never tried to teach us that Cinderella was a real person.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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