RE: Ken Ham's Creation museum is FAILING!!!!!
July 15, 2017 at 7:34 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2017 at 7:35 pm by Pat Mustard.)
(July 15, 2017 at 2:46 pm)mordant Wrote:(July 15, 2017 at 2:30 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: The thing about this con is that its mostly poor peoplegiving the money, either through donations or tax breaks.For that matter check the prices for just buying tickets and parking. It's more expensive than, e.g., spending a day at a Six Flags or something, which would have much wider appeal to a much larger demographic.
I can believe that Ham imagined people would be fascinated and beat a path to his door, because after all this is what HE is obsessed with so why wouldn't everyone else find it compelling?
Alas and alack ... 'twas not to be. It didn't spark the popular imagination. People didn't hear about the Ark Experience one day and go, "Finally! Martha, gather up the kids, I've been looking to learn all about Noah's Ark for years and years!"
As an Irishman, I've not yet had the pleasure of getting within a thousand miles of Six Flags, but today I paid €13.50 to go down a cave and see this:
![[Image: IMAG05001.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i685.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fvv217%2FBrianShanahan%2FIMAG05001.jpg)
A few miles up the road I got out the car and saw this:
![[Image: IMAG0525.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i685.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fvv217%2FBrianShanahan%2FIMAG0525.jpg)
And a few weeks ago I could have seen these if I were clued in enough (the second oldest evidence of walking animals, 384m years old on Valentia Island):
![[Image: tetrapod-footprints-dinasoar.jpg]](https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/52/44/cd/tetrapod-footprints-dinasoar.jpg)
This photo of Valentia Island is courtesy of TripAdvisor
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