"It's surprising to me that folkies have such difficulty accepting the Ark story.?"

I don't think anyone has difficulty accepting the ark as a story or as middle-eastern folklore, the issue comes when it's presented as historical fact and used as a vehicle to peddle falsehood.

I terms of folklore, it'd be far more interesting if we looked to our own ancient traditions rather than those of bronze-age bedouin tribesmen who lived ion the desert. Isn't that what many of us as folkies do? Give me Beowulf and Taliesin over the New Testment any day of the week, or the stories and legends from my own little patch of the world, which perhaps stretch as far back as any bible story, and retain relevance in the landscape I live in.

"Were I to say evolutionists were liars"

Well, you have implied that in the past Pete, and suggested the people involved in science were themselves dishonest, which is I have to be robust in the defence of science, art and free thought. I'm not implying everyone who believes in creationism is a liar, but the people who created Ark Encounter and the Creationist Museum certainly are. But I'm not interested in attacking the people themselves, rather the lies they peddle and the falsehoods they propagate in the name of their god.

Gilgamesh! Thanks for the reminder!