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Creation Museum Petering Out

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You'd think with all the faithful we have here in God's Country, this Christian Nation as some refer to it, a museum about Adam & Eve, the Ark and who knows what else the good book sells, would thrive.

Well...apparently not.
Kentucky’s ‘Creation Museum’ in Financial Trouble Due to Declining Attendance (VIDEO)

Mark Joseph Stern from Slate.com writes:A spectacle like the Creation Museum has a pretty limited audience. Sure, 46 percent of Americans profess to believe in creationism, but how many are enthusiastic enough to venture to Kentucky to spend nearly $30 to see a diorama of a little boy palling around with a vegetarian dinosaur? The museum’s target demographic may not be eager to lay down that much money: Belief in creationism correlates to less education, and less education correlates to lower income.
In hopes to draw repeat customers, the museum has added zip-lining and sky bridge courses to their attractions this summer. But when confronted by critics who wonder what the zip-lining and sky bridge attractions have to do with the museum’s message, Mike Zovath, the museums co-founder and vice president, says that the extra activities are irrelevant.

Gee. I can't imagine what could have gone wrong...
 
They charge $30 a ticket. I wonder if its tax deductable.
 
It couldn't evolve to survive changed market conditions. Oh the irony!
 
A museum full of cartoonish fables pretending to be actual science has no place in a rational, intelligent world.

Religion..sure..LOL
 
More Obama welfare candidates, liberals love it.
 
They asked the wrong spokesman.....

 
The funny thing about the Creation Museum is that it also drew a lot of atheists who determined that giving them $30 was worth the laughs. Other than that it only had appeal to a limited market.. creationists with children that subscribed to that particular brand of dinosaurs-walked-with-man creationism. Not only is it only appealing to a subset of the population, but also to a subset of that subset. It comes as no surprise that attendance would tumble after several years. It comes across as a "been there, done that, got the t-shirt" kind of attraction. You take the kids, and then a few years go by and they are too old for it to have much appeal to them.
 
More Obama welfare candidates, liberals love it.

Boy, this is a stretch even for you. But it is true that conservatives and rightwingers tend to need help getting along in our complex modern society.
 
You'd think with all the faithful we have here in God's Country, this Christian Nation as some refer to it, a museum about Adam & Eve, the Ark and who knows what else the good book sells, would thrive.

Well...apparently not.
Kentucky’s ‘Creation Museum’ in Financial Trouble Due to Declining Attendance (VIDEO)



Gee. I can't imagine what could have gone wrong...

It was doomed from the start. After the initial curiosity died out and atheists stopped going for laughs, it couldn't last for too long.
 
Boy, this is a stretch even for you. But it is true that conservatives and rightwingers tend to need help getting along in our complex modern society.

Hey, you're rubbing off on me as sick as that sounds. :lol:
 
god is very mad!
 
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