On December 1, Governor Steve Beshear announced that Answers In Genesis (the people who brought you the Creation Museum) will partner with the Ark Encounter Group to build an amusement park in Grant County based on Noah’s Ark. “We are excited to join the Ark Encounter group as it seeks to provide this unique, family-friendly tourist attraction to the Commonwealth,” Beshear said in a press release. The story, which thanks to the Governor’s comments makes us look (even more) like a state full of backwards flat-earthers,  has already been snickered at by MSNBC and made the Fortean Times web site’s weird news of the day page. I’m sure there’s more ridicule to come. Even better, it looks like the the theme park’s going to get about $37.5 million in tax breaks and subsidies. Based on 2009 census numbers, that works out to a little over $8.50 for every man, woman, and child in Kentucky. Personally, I’d rather the Governor just take us all to see Cowboys & Aliens or something. But there is a bright side: at the press conference announcing the upcoming park, Lexington blogger Joe Sonka of Barefoot & Progressive asked whether there would be dinosaurs on the ark, to which an Answers in Genesis representative responded “Well you know the position of Answers in Genesis so you can probably answer that yourself. We’ll have appropriate animals on the ark based on--I’m sure we’ll have representative kinds of animals on the ark, to include dinosaurs.” So I think it’s safe to say “Road Trip!”