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RE: Ken Ham's Creation museum is FAILING!!!!!
August 11, 2017 at 9:09 am
(August 11, 2017 at 1:57 am)Astonished Wrote: (August 11, 2017 at 1:28 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: I think they're pushing chose to a million tickets at $30-45 apiece. I think they are good for $700k.
I think they're inflating their sales figures to try and convince people they aren't failing miserably while they frantically figure out a way not to have completely fucked up this already-doomed shit show. That they aren't fully disclosing actual attendance numbers is not a good sign on their part. How many of those tickets are from atheists going to see it ironically and make fun of it? Plus all the expenses of food, maintenance, employees, utilities, and all that, on a park that appears empty a great deal of the time, have to be eating up what they have earned pretty quickly. Good thing it's so poorly designed, there's probably very little maintenance needed, and they can just turn off the lights in the empty displays. Ham's already personally blaming atheists for 'problems' so they've tacitly admitted things could be 'better'. Just what is the extent of this trouble? Surely a man who ranted and raved enough to get people to donate so he could upgrade a plane ticket on short notice could spin a few niggling little woes the park is having in a way that would get people to show up more or just mail in cash. I mean, it's not like they're still in a position to 'show no weakness' so why not play on the sympathies of the deluded masses who actually think they're being persecuted?
Well the $700k number comes from .50 cents per ticket sale. So that puts them at 1.4 million tickets. Their projection was 2.2 million. That's 36% short of their projections.
And ironic atheists were probably not a significant portion of their ticket sales, but they still paid money.
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RE: Ken Ham's Creation museum is FAILING!!!!!
August 11, 2017 at 9:39 am
So they're still trying to recoup the massive losses they've accrued if they're desperate enough to have gambled 18M+ to save that 700K. Is there any better proof of Ham's denial of reality than this? I mean, how have we not heard even whispers of a class-action lawsuit somewhere in here?
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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RE: Ken Ham's Creation museum is FAILING!!!!!
August 11, 2017 at 11:32 am
Maybe he should consult the WLB for a little help at "The Art of the Deal?"
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RE: Ken Ham's Creation museum is FAILING!!!!!
August 11, 2017 at 11:55 am
(August 11, 2017 at 8:58 am)Brian37 Wrote: Good, Ham is simply a religious Maddoff.
Could probably cut the "religious" part out. Just a run of the mill scammer who found willing marks.
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RE: Ken Ham's Creation museum is FAILING!!!!!
August 11, 2017 at 11:53 pm
(August 11, 2017 at 11:55 am)Khemikal Wrote: (August 11, 2017 at 8:58 am)Brian37 Wrote: Good, Ham is simply a religious Maddoff.
Could probably cut the "religious" part out. Just a run of the mill scammer who found willing marks.
To be fair, he seems to be the best of the best. No cracks in his exterior, no inconsistencies in his batshittery. He may be the most legit lunatic running a scam out there. It's pretty obvious all the other ones know they're peddling bullshit to the gullible masses.
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RE: Ken Ham's Creation museum is FAILING!!!!!
August 12, 2017 at 8:41 am
(August 11, 2017 at 9:39 am)Astonished Wrote: So they're still trying to recoup the massive losses they've accrued if they're desperate enough to have gambled 18M+ to save that 700K. Is there any better proof of Ham's denial of reality than this?[...]
Yes. Yes, there is:
![[Image: ark-stern-2016-06-27.jpg]](https://assets.creationmuseum.org/img/blog/2016/06/ark-stern-2016-06-27.jpg)
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RE: Ken Ham's Creation museum is FAILING!!!!!
August 12, 2017 at 8:46 am
(August 11, 2017 at 11:32 am)Minimalist Wrote: Maybe he should consult the WLB for a little help at "The Art of the Deal?"
Too late !!
Ken Ham didn't use 'mobbed up' Salerno Brothers concrete to build his ark.
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RE: Ken Ham's Creation museum is FAILING!!!!!
August 12, 2017 at 9:38 am
I'll be honest - there is one thing about the whole ark park that I actually like. In fact, I think it's a little stroke of genius.
The logo:
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Whoever came up with that deserves the money it must have cost.
If only that level of intelligent design had gone into the rest of the fiasco.
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RE: Ken Ham's Creation museum is FAILING!!!!!
August 12, 2017 at 9:50 am
Maybe the area surrounding Ken's ark structure needs paved with blue asphalt, and manikins could be placed around it to represent the dead floating bodies of all the sinners Noah left behind ??
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RE: Ken Ham's Creation museum is FAILING!!!!!
August 12, 2017 at 10:43 am
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