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CINCINNATI — This year crowds are flooding back to the massive life-sized display of Noah’s Ark. Attendance at Ark Encounter has rebounded from last year’s pandemic and has equaled 2019’s record year.
“Our post pandemic numbers are better than our pre pandemic tours, and that is without our bus tours,” says Ken Ham, President of Answers in Genesis (AIG).
Celebrating its five-year anniversary this past summer, the Ark Encounter announced it will add a Tower of Babel exhibit and begin fundraising next year. The new exhibit will help people understand what genetics research and the Bible say about the origins of the people groups of the world and tackle the racism issue.
“The Tower of Babel was an event in the Bible after the Flood where man rebelled against GOD and GOD divided the people and gave different languages and people spread across the Earth forming different cultural and ethnic groups,” says Mr. Ham.
Ham hopes to demonstrate to people that all the different people groups came from a a common ancestry.
“Even in a secular scientific literature, they have been saying for years that there is only one race and the differences on the outside are minor and the major differences are cultural and the Bible’s history explains those cultural differences.
“The Tower of Babel was an event in the Bible after the Flood where man rebelled against GOD and GOD divided the people and gave different languages and people spread across the Earth forming different cultural and ethnic groups. Even in secular scientific literature, they have been saying for years that there is only one race and the differences on the outside are minor.”
Ken Ham, President of Answers in Genesis
Ham hopes to bridge those differences with the Tower of Babel exhibit.
“The real person is on the inside and we need to be teaching people that. We want them to understand, we are all one family, we are all one family.”
Answers in Genesis owns the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter and employs seven hundred full-time staff and six hundred seasonal staff. Ham says that his research shows that over ninety-two percent of those who visit the two attractions are coming from outside Kentucky. Ultimately, the attractions have added millions of dollars to the state’s treasury, local schools and libraries.
“A man who manages ten hotel properties in the region recently thank us for being great partners and driving immense amounts of tourism to the Northern Kentucky region. The head of tourism agency of North Kentucky reported an incredible number of visitors coming to the Ark and Creation Museum and that hotel occupancy in the region is reflecting that,” says Ham.
In May 2021,nearby Florence, Kentucky hotels had a seventy-seven percent occupancy compared to the national average of fifty-nine percent.
View the 2021 promotional video of the Ark Encounter below.
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The Bottom Line:
The Bible says in The Book of Genesis, “Therefore its name was called Babel, because the the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.”
