I was reading today some of the atheist/science blogs that I frequent, and I came across something I found both hilarious and disturbing. From what I can tell, and admittedly I haven't gone out of my way to learn more about, it seems the state of Kentucky is funding, by way of 37 000 000 dollars in tax incentives, a creationist museum featuring a life sized replica of Noah's ark.
First the funny bit:
The ark was supposedly 300 cubits in length ; 50 cubits wide; 30 cubits tall with three levels . This works out in metric to: 135 meters long by 22.5 meters wide by 13.5 meters tall. now if you take the length and multiply it by the width, you get the area of the floor in side, structural integrity aside you get 3037.5 time 3 floors equals 9112.5. Wow huge... but there's the animals, currently over 1.7 million of the worlds species have been cataloged. take away the plants and fish and bugs and so on, and leave just the land vertebrates that's still 31000 species. take those 31000 and multiply those by 2 because the bible says there was two of each animal. so now that's 62000 animals. take those 62000 animals and dive them by the available space an that makes about 7 animals per square meter. not to mention food and water for the animals, bedding, space for the 8 people. Crazy.
next is the angering part:
Why is Kentucky giving 37 million dollars to a creationist theme park? I promise that if I wanted to build an atheism theme park I'd be told where to go, and in a hurry. Where is the separation of church and state in this one? or any where in the states? I guess I don't really get to complain, as i am in Canada, but as a concerned neighbor, I'm just sayin...
C'mon people why can't you see how insane all of this is? I mean seriously, 7 animals per square meter, One and a half per square foot, and that is being generous, omitting all internal structure. I don't get how can anyone remotely believe that this is possible? Not to mention where did all that water come from, and where did it go? and what about the plants, I don't think they like salt water, nor do fresh water fish. I could continue but my head hurts.
wake up people.
