Talk:Ark Encounter

Williamstown and Dry Ridge, and indeed Grant County, are relatively very small, with tiny populations. It therefore seems unlikely that the Ark Encounter theme park and the institution Pure Life Ministries, both promoting fundamentalist Christian values, are unrelated enterprises. This especially would apply as PLM requires its 9-month residential program participants to work in the community, and employment opportunities are extremely limited. Pure Life offers to assist aspirants with 'impure' sexual lifestyle temptations and habits, including infidelity, masturbation, porn addiction, ALL homosexual inclinations and activity (as impure and un-Christian), etc. If these businesses are cross-pollinating, 'twould be noteworthy. rags (2Aug19) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ragityman (talk • contribs)

The "Attendance" section is currently three very large paragraphs disputing whether 1 million visitors a year visit, or 850,000 visitors as its detractors claim....which is a silly enough argument to highlight anyways since the numbers are not exactly off by orders of magnitude. And since the park notes that the 850,000 is how many paying visitors attend the park and the other 150,000 are non-paying guests and/or young children, etc...it seems completely reasonable. Which makes this already-lengthy article look even worse that we dedicate space to trying to dispute what appears to be two numbers which are consistent with each other; three paragraphs can be reduced to a single sentence "The park draws nearly a million paying visitors a year", voila. 86.106.90.101 (talk) 20:10, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

::Even that suggestion sort of belies a question of bias in one direction or another. One can say "nearly a million," as you suggest, or "less than a million." Neither would be a neutral term. Perhaps the best way to go would be to find a quote and let that speak for itself. --Icowrich (talk) 17:44, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

The recent opening of a virtual reality theater might be something to note in the article, but I'm not certain and will leave it on the talk page, at least for now: [https://www.christianpost.com/news/ark-encounter-opens-virtual-reality-experience-taking-people-back-in-time-to-noahs-ark.html 1],[https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2020/august/ark-encounters-new-3m-virtual-reality-attraction-takes-visitors-back-in-time-to-witness-the-flood 2] --1990'sguy (talk) 03:03, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Sources from 2016 say that "there are no live animals within the exhibit", and this line is in the "Visitor experience" section of the article. However, an image from 2019 in the article shows live animals inside the ark, and the picture's caption says "A live animal exhibit alternates [...] day to day." This Wikipedia article currently contradicts itself, and I'm not sure what the best way to resolve it is. Dogman15 (talk) 04:31, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

:Good catch. Found a cite explaining that the live animals are brought from the petting zoo. Wracking ^talk! 05:15, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

::Thank you! Dogman15 (talk) 09:51, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

This person is mentioned in 'hiring controversies', but with absolutely no reference as to who they are, or what their relationship is to the Ark Encounter. My editing skills are suspect, but if anyone would like to add context I found information here: https://assets.answersingenesis.org/doc/articles/newsroom/ark-encounter-leadership-team.pdf Canadian Skeptic (talk) 02:21, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

:{{done}} I improved the referencing for that section, as the quotes were not in the existing reference. ID-ed Mike Zorvath in the process. -- M.boli (talk) 04:13, 10 February 2025 (UTC)