Ken Ham has been planning to build this colossal boondoogle in Kentucky, a life-sized replica of Noah's Ark. Except they've hit one little snag.
Their groundbreaking was pushed back from spring, to summer, to fall, and the most recent media report was to next spring. Meanwhile, their fundraising goal of $24.5 million appears to have ground to a halt at just over $4 million, where it has been for quite a while. They had reached the $3 million mark all the way back in May.
I don't know what the problem is. $4 million is more than enough to hire one old man with a wooden mallet and a bronze axe for a year.
$4 million is also a lot of moolah for Answers in Genesis to walk away with if their Ark project flops.
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