Noah’s ark project to move forward, despite Bill Nye’s best trys
A Christian ministry’s long-stalled plans to build Noah’s Ark in the hills of Kentucky have been revived.
Creation Museum founder Ken Ham announced Thursday that a municipal bond offering has raised enough money to begin construction on the Ark Encounter project, estimated to cost about $73 million. Groundbreaking is planned for May and the ark is expected to be finished by the summer of 2016.
Ham said a high-profile evolution debate he had with “Science Guy” Bill Nye earlier this month helped boost support for the project.
Nye said he was “heartbroken and sickened for the Commonwealth of Kentucky” after learning that the project would move forward.
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