[Drawsing]

However, building an ark with many tens of millions of dollars is extravagant and, in my opinion, wasteful and garish.

Your judgment here, then, is a matter of degree. Ham's vision for this is something really nice and professional looking...like the creation museum... and it will be expensive. I know how you feel. I don't like to see garish expensive church buildings and preachers driving expensive cars.

But then, if I went to see the finished Ark project and it was made of cheap plywood...and there was poor customer service...and the bathrooms were dirty...and the displays looked like bad high school science projects...then I probably would leave early and not come back. ...and all of my preconceived notions of gap-toothed mouth-breathing Christians would be reinforced.

[sauropod]

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. My judgment is indeed a matter of degree.

I agree with you about not going to see a cheap plywood ark.
I also do not want to go to an ark display where they have gold plated fixtures in the washrooms.

Cheers, ‘Pod.