Diorama at Ken Ham's Creationist Museum show giants fighting in gladiator pits alongside dinosaurs. Remember, this is supposed to be a "museum."

Exquisite design by @ArkEncounter artists for new Diorama depicting wicked population in the pre-Flood world to be installed @ArkEncounter pic.twitter.com/4JHQiTEWbG

— Ken Ham (@aigkenham) February 16, 2017

Courtesy of HuffPo:

A new display going into the creationist Noah’s Ark attraction in Kentucky shows what appears to be gladiator-style fights involving humans, giants and a dinosaur.

The dinosaur is visible in the far right of the first image, which has a giant on the left apparently about to spear a human. 

Ham, who believes in a strict literal interpretation of the Bible, claims the planet is roughly 6,000 years old, that humans existed alongside dinosaurs and that Noah even carried dinosaurs with him on the ark during a global flood roughly 4,300 years ago. 

There is no scientific evidence for a race of giants.

This is exactly the kind of thing that makes it possible for somebody like Donald Trump to be elected president in this country.

Teach the children mythological fables as fact, suppress their critical thinking skills, and the next thing you know you have created another conservative voter.

Creationist Ken Ham laments the millions "wasted" researching the origins of life. Yeah, it's all in the book right?

Think of the millions & millions of dollars wasted by scientists attempting to research false belief of molecules to man evolution-sad waste

— Ken Ham (@aigkenham) November 16, 2016

Imagine the benefit to humans if scientists had the right worldview for their research--that God created a perfect world now marred by sin

— Ken Ham (@aigkenham) November 16, 2016

Yes let's just imagine how much spare time scientists would have on their hands if they just accepted the fact that "God did it."

The millions of dollars wasted on researching the lie of Evolution could be used to benefit the human population in so many ways--sad

— Ken Ham (@aigkenham) November 16, 2016

Does he mean like discovering how diseases evolve over time in order to invent better treatments to prevent them?

Because if true I have some bad news for him.

Millions of dollars are wasted on researching evolution--an anti-God false religion--what a shocking waste of money

— Ken Ham (@aigkenham) November 16, 2016

You know you would think that a guy who built a park celebrating a Biblical bedtime story would have a firmer grasp of the word "religion."

Science ain't religion.

It is probably not fair to target Ken Ham after all this guy is a special kind of stupid, but for anybody who listens to his bullshit if might be helpful for them to learn that studying evolution has provided invaluable insights into how our bodies developed the means to overcome dietary restrictions and to fight diseases, and also how many diseases evolved to overcome those developing defenses.

In fact the study of evolution and biology has provided so much data that now we are seriously discussing the possibility of immortality.

Which I would assume is yet another reason that Ken Ham hates science.

After all without impending death it is kind of hard to scare small children into fearing Hell, now isn't it?

As seen in Ken Ham's Creation Museum in Kentucky.

I have read the Bible one and a half times.

Don't remember the section on transitional fossils or the dietary needs of the Diplodocus.

P.S. Yes I am aware that they are likely talking about the behemoth, leviathon, and dragons that ARE mentioned in the Bible, but to even call that a stretch in logic is to be much too kind to these anti-science idiots.

I have said it once, and I will say it again, parents taking their children to this "museum" should be charged with child abuse.

Nancy French, playing the part of Bristol Palin, claims that Ken Ham's Ark project lost funding because it was "too religious."

Courtesy of Brancy's blog: 

I just get so sick of hearing about the “separation of church and state.” Because it usually means the state is pushing Christians around. Here’s the latest example. 

Answers in Genesis is building a life-sized Noah’s Ark in Kentucky and a theme park to go with it. “Ark Encounter” will bring hundreds of jobs and millions of visitors to boost Kentucky’s economy. The state has a program to encourage tourism that refunds sales tax to big parks like this for the first 10 years they’re open. The plans for “Ark Encounter” were approved by the state in 2011 along with the tax credits. 

But now, out of the blue, Kentucky officials say they’ve changed their mind! Answers in Genesis won’t be approved for the program unless they agree to hire people who aren’t Christians and unless the exhibit doesn’t talk about Christianity. 

Okay well that part about not talking about Christianity in order to get the tax credits is all bullshit, but yes refusing to hire workers based on their religious faith is totally against state law when it comes to granting tax incentives.

Now of course there is NO way that Nancy French or that Wasillabilly drunken brawler is going to ever understand this, but the Friendly Atheist tries to explain it anyway: 

Answers in Genesis was approved for the tax rebates because they were building a for-profit theme park and they agreed to play by the rules. 

Like every other business that wants these government subsidies, they had to follow the law and not discriminate in hiring. Six Flags can’t do it. Kentucky Kingdom can’t do it. And Ark Encounter can’t do it. 

But then they posted a job listing for Ark Encounter that required you to be a Christian. While that’s fine for, say, the non-profit Creation Museum, they can’t do that if they want the tax rebates. 

Kentucky officials finally realized this and denied Answers in Genesis access to that money. It was the right move and it prevented a lawsuit from church/state separation groups in the future.

So as the Friendly Atheist points out this decision is not anti-Christian it is pro-following-the-law.

Of course in French/Palin's view of the world legality is only important when it supports something Christians want to do do, and completely unimportant if it stops them from receiving special privileges over other religious groups.

Hey I have a question. Is this another example of Bristol Palin living a private life?

Ken Ham's Ark project springs a leak.

Courtesy of TPM:  

Kentucky's proposed "creationist theme park," Ark Encounter, won't receive tax incentives from the state because of potentially discriminatory hiring practices, the news website Insider Louisville reported on Wednesday. 

The secretary of the state's tourism and arts cabinet sent a letter to the theme park's lawyers on Wednesday explaining the decision. The park, being built in Williamstown, Ky., may have been eligible for up to $18 million in tax breaks from the state, according to the website. But Kentucky backed out after the proprietors of Ark Encounter refused to agree to hiring practices that wouldn't discriminate on the basis of religion, the site reported.

Loss of the tax incentives will likely signal the end of the project because:  

Answers in Genesis, the group behind Ark Encounter, has experienced funding issues throughout. In 2011, the company had only managed to garner $4.3 million in donations, a far cry from the proposed $24.5 million.

You know I hate to bring this up, but I do believe that according to the Bible Noah built HIS without benefit of tax incentives.

I'm just saying.

I saw an earlier story about this where a commenter said, "Well I'm bummed. I was really looking forward to that awkward moment when the fire inspectors posted the maximum occupancy allowed inside the Ark."

Good point.