Atheists at the Ark Encounter

[Music] on a rainy September Friday I visited ken ham's 100 million dollar paperweight in Williamstown Kentucky I went to the Ark Encounter yeah that's me under a borrowed umbrella standing in a suspiciously appropriate rainstorm now not that kind of rainstorm an actual rain one that did not last for 40 days and 40 nights which is really good because ken ham's Ark was looking a little rough around the woodwork presumably due to the elements which prompts the question of how Ken's actual Ark might have fared on actual seas but that is another video for another time now I don't know what the crowd normally looks like but on this rainy Friday this was the view of the outer parking lot and this was the lot near the gate these spaces presumably filled by religious home schoolers who thought that Ken hams Creation Museum was a scientific tour de force here's one of the first things I discovered the Ark isn't really an ark the back half of the structure is actually a building which is something I don't remember hearing about at all the fundraising press conferences I walked around the structure back to the Ark's side past the suffocating crowds and I was joined by my friend and fellow activist Matt Dillahunty because if you're gonna tour the Ark you should do so two by two here's one of the first things I saw inside the exhibit it was a wood carving now it's hard to make out what's happening to me it looks like Dumbledore levitating a tiny like bathtub toy Ark while standing next to a snake and a severed leg with the top of the carving populated with various animals under a giant Phoenix and Jesus I don't know what the hell this is I don't know what it's supposed to represent and for the record it was one of the more sensible exhibits on display I saw a bunch of crates apparently this is where they keep the Ark of the Covenant I got to see Bambi while I was there now from this exhibit we can infer that Noah ran one of the world's first puppy mills go ahead Google puppy mill those awful places where breeders keep dogs and tiny cages with various apparatus to deliver food and water look it up and then look at this section of the Ark Encounter had Noah built this sucker today the Humane Society would not be happy the good news is at least the ark was apparently built to code with sprinklers you know in case God decided to punish somebody with fire Noah's family was there to greet us near the entrance now notice the various ethnicities of each of the wives according to the Ark Encounter Noah's wife who did not look 500 was imagined as somebody who might look like the great-great-great great-great-great etc grandmother to all of humankind J Beth's wife was imagined as more European hams wife was more African and Shems wife was a mixture of pleasing browns which might explain several ethnicities now you mixed together this potpourri of traits and you sprinkle in some incest and voila you procreate and produce the thousands of ethnic groups that we see on the earth today thanks Noah also one of the first things I noticed were these curious light fixtures inside the ark they just struck me I mean I don't know they had a strangely testicular quality you see what I'm talking about I saw a few more animals here and there in various cages lots of storage for water and food and dinosaurs yes dinosaurs I bumped into a painting of Kenny Loggins and his love is music I learned at the Ark Encounter one of the reasons for humankind's descent into darkness and the fall of man was civilization that's right we became too civilized to remain good I stumbled upon this fantastic diorama it depicts pre-flood wickedness people back then weren't thrown to the Lions they were thrown to the to the dinosaurs oh Ken Ken Ham you just crack me up man the evil continued just begging for a great and global flood humankind sacrificed babies we participated in all kinds of carnality and we were generally horny never more cages various cages not many relative to the size of the ark but enough to get your attention many of these cages relatively tiny which gave the few animals we saw almost no room to move or maneuver but they were stuffed so I guess this was not a problem but in the real art I'll bet the Raptors were pissed we learned in the Ark Encounter how thousands of tons of animal poop might have been routed to a huge animal powered uber toilet a big toilet house within the boat you know I wonder if they built it with shittim wood but the kids they had a section called fairytale Ark which I thought was redundant the Ark had these various stations for growing vegetation there were crew quarters for Noah and his family pretty Swank quarters if I may say which is good they would definitely need to rest considering that the ark would mean lots and lots of walking through lots and lots of empty space in truth not much in the way of animals just lots of open air some wood some pottery a few stuffed creatures and tons and tons of gilt the Ark Encounter is loaded with guilt guilt for being born human guilt for being so icky and sinful guilt for making God angry enough to drown us all in the first place the Ark Encounter certainly was expensive to build you know I wonder how did Noah manage to build an ark with only trees and tar while it took Ken Ham over a hundred million dollars a huge construction crew and state-of-the-art equipment you know I wonder what a hundred million dollars might have done to help disaster relief victims or build shelters for the homeless or feed hungry children or provide medicines to the sick or fund cancer research or provide tangible benefit for any of the countless worthy needs and causes that are supposed to be God's good work that's pretty much it some empty space a few animals lots of wood lots of stuff on the walls you're supposed to read all at an asking price of $40 a ticket not including the $10 to park thou shalt not steal my friends at the end of the tour I was struck again by the opinion that the Ark Encounter is warped and not because of the rain it's a bogus story sold to adults and a lie told to children it's a church masquerading as a Kentucky tourist attraction and it's a tragic waste of resources the one upside was this inside the Ark Encounter Matt Dillahunty and I discovered one moment of convergence where we and Ken Ham absolutely agree the placard said if I can convince you that the flood was not real that I can convince you that heaven and hell are not real again you're absolutely right [Music]

Channel: TheThinkingAtheist

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Keywords: atheist, atheism, The Thinking Atheist, Seth Andrews, Matt Dillahunty, Ark Encounter, Ken Ham, Creation Museum, Bible, Genesis, Noah's Ark, Noah's flood, science

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Length: 8min 47sec (527 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 14 2017