claim: A Noah's Ark exhibit at a Christian theme park in Kentucky was destroyed by a flood.
origin: On 21 April 2016, the web siteÂ The Good Lord Above published an article reportingÂ that a Noahâ€™s Ark Christian theme park then under construction in Kentucky had been destroyed by a flood: < The new â€˜Noahâ€™s Arkâ€™ Theme ParkÂ in Williamstown, Kentucky, was destroyed in a flood earlier today. The sudden flash flood only seemed to affect the location of the Ark Encounter Theme Park, which was in the final phases of construction. â€œFrom a meteorological standpoint, this is quite confusing,â€ said Dan Schmidt, a forecaster with the National Weather Service. â€œThere were no storm clouds in the area. Weâ€™re calling this flood an act of God.â€ > While itâ€™s true that a Noahâ€™s Ark-themed attraction was built in Kentucky, the project was not destroyed by a flood. TheÂ reporting of such was a spoof fromÂ The Good Lord Above, a web site responsible for several other religiously-based fake news stories, such as anÂ article proclaiming that Donald Trump had called Jesus a â€œsocialist loserâ€ and aÂ story reporting thatÂ Bernie Sanders savedÂ three children from a house fire. To their credit, The Good Lord AboveÂ makes the siteâ€™s humorous nature very clearÂ on their â€œAboutâ€ page: < God made the world. Then he flooded it. Then God went to sleep for 2000 years or so. Anyway, eventually God woke up and felt pretty bad for what heâ€™d done in the past. In 2011, after years of therapy, God started his Divine God Facebook Page to restore his good name. In his infinite wisdom, in 2015 God launched this Holy Website, TheGoodLordAbove.com. Thou shalt remember that The First Amendment protects satire as a form of free speech and expression. TheGoodLordAbove uses invented names in all of its stories, except in cases where public figures are being satirized. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental. TheGoodLordAbove is not intended for readers under 18 years of age. > The Ark Encounter Christian theme park finally opened in Kentucky on 7 July 2016, with a fully intact ark as one of its exhibits: