Noah’s Ark Theme Park Gets Final Go-Ahead In Kentucky
Via AOL Travel:
Things are about to get Biblical in Kentucky. On Thursday, the Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority gave final approval to grant $40 million in tax rebates to build a biblical theme park called “The Ark Encounter.”
The controversial museum, backed in part by Mike Zovath, a co-founder of the Answers in Genesis ministry which previously built Kentucky’s 70,00 square-foot Creation Museum, got the funding after months of back and forth over the legitimacy of a religious attraction being funded by a state government.
No matter, the Kentucky Tourism Development Finance Authority voted unanimously to grant more than $40 million in tax rebates for the project, which is scheduled to cost $172 million.
Zovath told the Associated Press: “This was the last real hurdle for us as far as I’m concerned.” Zovath’s purpose, he claims, is to dispel doubts about the biblical event…
There is more (and some videos) here.
This is the 10 Plagues exhibit:
