SHE WON'T GO!
Kentucky has a lot of awesome things. A state park called “Big Bone Lick” is just one of them. A crazy-ass Governor who’s willing to slash education by $50 Million while handing $43 Million to a creationist theme park that will build a giant Noah’s Ark complete with dinosaurs adorning the boat alongside men is another.
We’ve also got some cool rivalries. The Hatfields and McCoys. UK and Louisiville. Our coal-bought politicians and the lives of real human beings in Eastern Kentucky.
But one thing Kentucky has until now lacked is a great inter-tourism rivalry.
No more!
Ken Ham, the fully evolved brain behind the Creation Museum and the Biblically accurate Dinosaur Ark Park, recently lashed out at the Kentucky Horse Park because horses are actually bunnies or something which basically boils down to, yes, Ken Ham lecturing scientists on how evolution really happened.
Yes. The guy who believes dudes used to live 8 centuries as recently as like three millenia ago is also an expert on horse evolution.
The most excellent Ms. Blackford has the story:
Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, wrote a blog post published Saturday titled “Kentucky Horses Will Lead You Astray,” which challenges the validity of a permanent display.
Ham contends the idea of horse evolution is false, and he particularly disputes the line of prehistoric horses that scientists link to the modern horse.
Ham writes that in the display, two early horses, Miohippus and Merychippus, grow steadily bigger.
“What’s the problem, though, with the belief that horses somehow evolved into larger and larger animals? If that were true, shouldn’t we see only very large horses today? But we don’t — horses vary in size from the Clydesdale to the much smaller Fallabella (just 17 inches tall).”
Served!
Obviously the very best part of this (there’s more, read it all) is that Steve Beshear is giving tax breaks to Ken Ham’s theme park and Ken Ham is picking fights with the established state industry theme park.
That’s a great rivalry that is sure to increase Kentucky’s tourism brand and just goes to show you that you can give the crazy pretend Bible “literalist” $43 Million in taxpayer subsidy, but you can’t domesticate him. He is no horse, certainly not a very large one.
THE DAILY YONDER
the terms ‘Ken Ham’ and ‘fully evolved brain’ represent an oxymoron. Ham needs to keep his grimy mitts off the Horse Park, it’s finally starting to become a true success. He is ignorant AND greedy, a bad combination but oh, so Kentucky in other peoples’ eyes. Ham is a horse’s a**. Remind him that there is a Noah’s Ark themed animal sanctuary in Monticello and they seem to be doing just fine without $43 million of taxpayer’s money. Get him to improve on that.
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Ham may very well be part of a horse.
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I am sorely tempted to throw a saddle on Ham and ride him into the 21st Century
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