Ark Encounter Surpasses $12 Million Milestone for Campaign
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By Tahlib
Kentucky's Creation Museum team and their commercial partners have raised $12,216,716 of their $24.5 million goal to build the Ark Encounter. It's an amazing feat for a group of believers in northern Kentucky to build a a theme park built around the symbolism of Noah's Ark. A few years ago, a group of northern Kentucky capitalists and creationists led by Australian religious leader Ken Ham asked:
By Tahlib
"When Noah built the Ark, it stood as a symbol of salvation. No doubt Noah preached that only those who went through the Ark’s door would be saved from coming judgment.What if we built the Ark (out of wood) today? Imagine the impact it could have on the world. What a powerful outreach to teach the world about God’s Word and the message of salvation."Yesterday, a group of my friends joked about "fearing" the Creation Museum, a successful bible-based museum near Cincinnati. I countered that I'd been to the museum and while I too approached it with some skepticism, that I agreed with the positive 2007 review by Edward Rothstein in The New York Times:
Whether you are willing to grant the premises of this museum almost becomes irrelevant as you are drawn into its mixture of spectacle and narrative. Its 60,000 square feet of exhibits are often stunningly designed by Patrick Marsh, who, like the entire museum staff, declares adherence to the ministry’s views; he evidently also knows the lure of secular sensations, since he designed the “Jaws” and “King Kong” attractions at Universal Studios in Florida. For the skeptic the wonder is at a strange universe shaped by elaborate arguments, strong convictions and intermittent invocations of scientific principle. For the believer, it seems, this museum provides a kind of relief: Finally the world is being shown as it really is, without the distortions of secularism and natural selection.I'm glad they are making such great progress. I am excited that museum professionals are working on religious-based initiatives, and I am thrilled that artists and craftsmen have found jobs here in the Midwest.