Creation Museum in financial trouble

[Smartmarzipan]

Two phrases I like to see together: 'Creation Museum' and 'Financial Trouble'
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/ ... l-trouble/

In a developing story from Kentucky, the Creation Museum is running out of money due to declining attendance, bringing their "Ark Encounter" project to a stand-still because of a lack of funding.
Interestingly, the reason for the slowing traffic seems to be creationism itself, since the main exhibit has literally not changed in 5 years. Most museums' exhibits change as new discoveries are made, as artifacts travel from other museums to visit, or as adjustments in scientific thinking are made.
Another reason could be the demographic that creationism's proponents target.
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.

Ah hahaha!  =D>

[the_antithesis]

Will they be adding a water slide?

[Elohim]

But...didn't they recently add a cool dragon exhibit?

[stromboli]

Let's see..... hand millions of dollars to people who are just smart enough to believe in Creationism and expect advanced financial forecasting and creative thinking? Sure, that'll work.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Just you fuckers wait till the tooth fairy exhibit is put in and MILLIONS flock to see the miracle of a nickel under a childs pillow! :shock:

[surly74]

not evolving the downfall of the creation museum.

[Smartmarzipan]

not evolving the downfall of the creation museum.

LOL...the irony of selection at work.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Uncle daddy and aunt mama are to broke youngins. They had to pay to much for pill snorting.. Maybe next year if they come up with Cost Cutter beer rebranded as tap water..

[surly74]

another example of christian arrogance.

where is their god to save them from financial ruin?

paintball...paintball will bring people in.

[SGOS]

A roller coaster ride would be nice.  They might be able to work it in somehow with the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

[surly74]

they could explain that if the roller coaster had a creator then there must be a creator for the univere.

[Smartmarzipan]

Okay, okay, okay.

How about.....Irreducibly Complex bumper boats!

Or.....find the missing link in the Fossil Record! (no one ever wins this game)

Or.....Carbon-14 Dating is a Sham tram rides! Woot woot!

[surly74]

Pin the tail on the Darwin.

[Hydra009]

*imagines a Pirate Ship type ride with a stylized crocoduck as the ship's figurehead*