Why do people laugh at creationists (part 44)

so I think this might actually be worthy of a wider people laugh at creationists cuz it's just so lulz worthy I mean never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups and honestly this makes my premiered busted videos seem like small potatoes you know solar roadways a paltry two million dollars self filling water bottles 300,000 hoverboards another 300,000 the Ark Encounter a 100 million dollars and now his 100 million dollar project takes advantage of millions of dollars in tax breaks to work on the Ark Encounter job applicants have to sign a strict statement of faith agreeing for instance that the great flood of Genesis was an actual historic event worldwide in its extent and effect and remember they were getting compete with Disneyland this was going to be the Christian version of Disneyland imagine if we were to rebuild Noah's Ark the size of the Ark out of wood to look like a real boat it's really time for Christians to do something of this size of this quality that competes with the Disney's and the universes to give a message to the world it's dimensions straight from the pages of Genesis it's meant to make a statement that Christians can build a major attraction like this but Hamm knows this ship can sail he predicts the Ark Encounter will attract 1 to 2 million visitors in the first year alone I think we're going to see more people here than we ever dreamed possible Pam expects 2 million people to visit the attraction every year so as I upload this video the hundred million dollar Ark has been open for almost a year and of course there's no possible chance that God would let his most devoted creationists fail now he's there it does kind of have a Field of Dreams quality if you build it they will come yes we really do believe that if we build it they will come spoiler alert they don't but before we get to that let's take a look at what you can learn at the Ark Encounter yes apparent one 600 year old man seventeenth day and the second month of Noah's 600 year to actually build it in a biblical way is faster paced one of these ships about four thousand years ago and just to show it was possible they use the labor force have not one man but a thousand and took two years so that's give or take 2,000 man use of labor or for another back-of-the-envelope calculation you know the ark cost one hundred million dollars to build so if you make the first degree approximation though you're essentially mostly paying for labor in one way shape reform you know even when you're buying materials you're mostly paying for the labor of the person who made it so for a typical u.s. salary of $40,000 per year you'd still be looking at over two thousand man years of labor going into this thing and that's two thousand man use of modern labor where they have first world infrastructure you know trucks to bringing the materials a world where you essentially have to spend no time worrying about where your foods cannot come from and using power tools of almost every sort whereas of course in a biblical world you were to spend most of your time trying to get enough food to not starve in winter mm man use of labor he using giant monster trucks and big-ass cranes so they could have an exhibit or an animatronic Noah told you that who took him several decades to build the Ark took us several decades but that was after years inside so let's be generous and say 50 and let's give Noah the Liebherr of all of his kids you know workforce of about 10 or something so he's getting about 10 years of man labor per year so in 50 years you would have had about 500 man use of labour and somehow they managed to build the ark with one quarter of the manpower using nothing but their hands four times quicker than Ken Ham using a thousand modern day laborers with massive hydraulic cranes and so forth Oh Bravo Ken daddy definitely a joke worth a hundred million creationist dollars and of course as they leave the Ark it's time to sell the rube something because in the Bible of course you'll remember that Jesus threw out the moneylenders from the temple saying make not my father's house a house of merchandise as people exit the arc on the lower deck they'll then go down a ramp into a very large gift shop of merchandise where you can buy all of ken ham's latest apologetics a very unique collection of gifts in here including a large range of the basic creation apologetics books that Answers in Genesis produces well here I am on the roof deck of the biggest timber frame structure in the world the ark itself is basically standing on top of piece of concrete pillars this massive boat is being held up now the religious folk had predicted presumably after consulting with gold that the Ark Encounter was going to be fantastic for local businesses it's been seven months since the 510 footlong Old Testament boat was launched on a Grant County Prairie downtown Williamstown which was expecting increased car and foot traffic has almost as many empty storefronts as occupied storefronts what's it meant for downtown Williamstown nothing indeed the local town provided some 60 million dollars in bond for this I was one of these believers that when they all came it was just everything's going to come in been it's not done it Joe it's not done it but for some strange reason possibly cannot praying hard enough it doesn't seem to have happened the Ark's success has not had the ripple effect many hoped it would Grant County is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy now the main reason for this of course is that nobody's turning up for the Ark Encounter early on they were predicting they would get about two million visitors a year that's about 5,000 people per day Hamm hopes for two million visitors in the first year which they reckon they got on the opening week but even at that you can tell just from the car lot size in the cars this wasn't exactly a raging success hell even the pictures taken by Answers in Genesis were taken to conceal the fact but there's an entire empty car lot you know the one that the drones hovering over and that was opening weekend hell even by their own numbers they're three-quarters the way through their first year their big year and they've only had about 600,000 visitors a staffer said they have had about 600 45,000 to date that puts them on target bigger than less than a million visitors in the first year if they're lucky and assuming they're being honest about their numbers looking at the bookings for the future and looking at the group bookings I would say we're well on target to hit our minimum of 1.4 million up to 2.2 million as the research has suggested just honestly if that's opening weekend it's not quite drawing the crowds now sure part of this might be that creationists cannot live on faith alone and so entry for an adult into the park is about $40 and 30 for a kid of the ark cost 42 dollars forty two dollars to get in which means for a family of four you'll be looking at about a hundred and fifty dollars just to go see the Ark Encounter and they spared no expense on incredible restaurants then of course there are folks who have actually turned up and videoed the queuing area which seems a little over designed for the actual number of people who in turning up nobody here so they got all sorts of video screens down here in the queue area I guess they expect quite a few people because this is a pretty large queue but they got a nice sound system so below the Ark is this very large queue which really is not it's not a lot of people in the queue line and we also have a 1,500 seat restaurant so here we are at the art park dining room it's just after noon [Music] nobody's here no quite the big four that been praying for now before all of this came seemed rather opened the idea of inviting atheists to come ham hopes for two million visitors in the first year and scoffers and critics be damned well night I can sculpt all they want they can be critical all I want you know what I invite them all to come here however later on this seems to be the change of heart about this is gonna go backstage [Music] yeah that's not going to happen it's a telephone yes sir I understand and there's a lot of people taking video and you're pulling me out okay I am back in my truck they escorted me off the property he put me in a police car and drove me about one mile back to my truck yes this was that first year which should have been their big year you know opening weekend stuff so why would Ken kick an atheist out of the park I he was well apparently he thinks that God's plan for the Ark Encounter has been derailed by unfavorable coverage by atheists recently a number of articles in the mainstream media on blogs and well-known secularist group websites have attempted to spread the propaganda to brainwash the public into thinking the Ark Encounter is a dismal failure incident weekend I had layoff words like propaganda and brainwashing if I were you this time somebody says millions of years ago what do you say to them we're dinosaurs on the ark that creation would notice it was my thanks day hey can you happen to use it in the Bible if there really was a global flood what would you expect to find billions of dead things buried Rock life laid out by water but what happens when somebody's dead millions of years I think we've thoroughly sadly there are influencing business investors and others in such a negative way that they are preventing Grant County Kentucky from achieving the economic recovery that its officials and residents have been seeking yes apparently atheists laughing is all the dinosaurs on the ark encounter put your hand up if you agree dinosaurs went on Noah's Ark that's great here's the thing 46% of Americans believe the story of Genesis is true the why the Bible is true exhibited the Ark encounters newest exhibit a graphic novel version of the Christian message called why the Bible is true so taking God at His Word in Genesis dinosaurs lived beside people about 6,000 years ago and the Bible tells us that there was a global flood and two of every kind of land dwelling air-breathing animal went on board the boat that Noah built you believe that Noah took one of these on through the ark well the Bible says now it took two of each behind this seems like if you took one of those on board everything else might as well stay home yes apparently the unfavorable coverage over the secularist was enough to completely scupper God's plans discover the plans are the most powerful being in the universe well I guess that is actually kind of biblical seeing is the God the Bible couldn't even overcome people lion chariots so amazed too at the way in which God has brought together hundreds of talented people in a miraculous way to make this happen [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 13min 23sec (803 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 02 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/CoolHeadLuke]

I like the video. It has one flaw though. There were never a thousand men working there at the same Time. Probably never more then fifty or a hundred. And some weeks just ten or twenty. I'm a contractor.

[u/pantstuff]

I mean, I'm all for people spending money on dumb shit, but spending tax dollars on this bullshit. Fuck that.

[u/rabit1]

In a way I'm glad he built this stupid ark. Just like we predicted either it would bomb or at least it would actually show how stupid his idea was, and more importantly how stupid and ridiculous noah story is.

Just by visiting the ark should be enough for anyone in the right mind to question the bible stories. In fact I think this stupid ark has actually created more atheists. Thank you Ken Ham.

[u/tommytimbertoes]

I LOVE this series. Watch all of them!

[u/dtabitt]

I'm confused....it says in the Bible not to worship false idols...and yet they want this Ark to compete with Universal Studios and Disney World....