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Creationist group to ask Kentucky taxpayers for help building Noahs ark theme park
There's already a Noah's Ark water park in the Wisconsin Dells.
The project coordinator told the newspaper that Ark Encounter meets all criteria for the tourism act, which allows eligible tourism attractions a 25 percent rebate of sales tax collected on ticket sales, souvenirs, and other sales over a 10-year period.
The rebate could be worth as much as $18.25 million for Ark Encounter, which is affiliated with the Answers in Genesis ministry that operates the Creation Museum about 20 miles away, in Petersburg, Kentucky.
When completed, Ark Encounter will feature a 510-foot wooden replica of the biblical Noahs ark as its main attraction.
I picture a really bright kid going there and thinking to himself: "This has has got to be a fairy tale, there's no way to fit all those animals in that square boat -- and the lions would eat the zebra."
And if Noah's just a Jewish fairy tale -- begs the question...
From a purely business standpoint, I don't see a real problem with it. It will bring tourists to the state and increase sales taxes, so that would be a good thing. It's not as if the state is supporting the business directly. It is just allowing them a discount on their sales taxes for a period of time.