We Protested Outside Ark Encounter On Its First Anniversary

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We Protested Outside Ark Encounter On Its First Anniversary
July 9, 2017 by Hemant Mehta

I spent yesterday afternoon in Williamstown, Kentucky, where a group of about 75 science supporters (including a handful of religious people) were protesting outside Ark Encounter on its first anniversary.

The point wasn’t to shut down the attraction or bother the families visiting the Ark on a Saturday in the summer. It was to remind the community that Ark Encounter had taken advantage of them — with tax breaks galore and without the jobs for everybody that they initially promised — and that the story it offered was about as far from science as anyone could get.

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Many thanks to the Tri-State Freethinkers for organizing the wonderful event. I loved seeing their Adopt-a-Highway sign just outside the Ark:


Now that’s clever marketing — and, unlike the Ark, it’s actually helping the community.