I recall watching a TV show (or web article?) about a similar reef/tourist attraction built out of statues. The changes brought about by sea life has to be part of the plan or at least anticipated, since it's known that it's exactly what will happen. Makes you wonder why they'd make the statues so detailed; as you can see from some of the pictures, they will eventually be buried under coral and anemones.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
