guest post by Chicken John
Noah’s Ark no longer a myth…
In 2005 a Dutch contractor made a replica of Noah’s Ark, built to half scale. The creationist fanatic built a roadside attraction 8,000 miles from Route 66… and it’s kinda epic…. biblical even…
This thing is the size of a football field but I can’t tell if it’s a boat or if’s built on a dock. It probably doesn’t actually float.
The builder, Johan Huibers, believes in the LITERAL TRUTH of the bible. I’m glad someone believes in something. I’m having a hard time believing someone built a friggin’ ark!
I want to let visitors visualize what the Ark looked like to bring the account closer to those who believe but also to those who don’t. Noah’s story speaks to them mostly because of the animals on board.
There are many realistic polyester animals! Children can view various films, visit the Bible story displays and follow the footprints of the elephant while searching for the answers on the questionaire.
I think Mission Hipsters should take it over, call it the Elitist Ark. Cool animals only.
Is it starting to rain? Uh oh….
For more on the project see: http://www.arkvannoach.com
images via arkvannoach.com
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Maybe *that’s* why the Dutch bumped off the Dominican in the Baseball Classic. They were on a Mission from Gad.
That thing, like the “real ark” and the purported 150+ yard wooden Chinese Treasure ships can’t float for long due to hogging and sagging.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogging_and_sagging
That thing in the water would be a maintenance nightmare, even if it could get a seaworthiness certificate.
If this guy believes in literal truth of the bible, then i have a few questions:
If Johan Huibers has to weld 25 barges together to make said Ark, how did Noah build this ark way back when?
How did Noah keep two of every animal on this ship? And who corralled all these animals? Where were they kept? How were they fed for 40 days and 40 nights?
just trying to be literal
The ship is build on a flat barge. So it does float but not by it self. Judging from the picture even he could not escape the many dutch safety regulations: emergengy exit sign (which is kind of funnny if you thing about it), firehose and obligatory signs.
And if there is a flood the Netherlands will surely be the first in need of an arc :)
Well, cool or not, I am one of those “creationist fanatics” (not that fanatic is synonymous with creationist), and I think it may be pretty amazing to tour the thing. The original described in Genesis was the size of 522 train-cars, so this one must be massive as well even at half the size. After reading the story so many times a visit probably would make it that much more real.
It would have been great to figure out a marketing campaign for this ark too. I would have loved to work on the design end of it. I can’t imagine Noah was that great of an ad guy since only 8 people made it onto the ark. Heh.
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Read about the mathematics of Noah’s flood:
http://thetruthiswrong.com/indeed/belief/logic/about-the-mathematics-of-the-great-flood/
Funny how you never see Johan Huibers and Sir Ian Botham in the same room.
http://www.speakers.co.uk/csaWeb/media/pix/h250/IANBOT_h250.jpg
Not to be an elitist douche but it says right on the website that the thing is not full scale. Actually more specifically it says it is a 1/2 scale replica. Whether or not you believe it to be true, it’s still an engineering feat. Not to mention the fact that archaeologists found the remains of the ark in the ararat mountains in iran in 2006 and satellite photographs have confirmed it’s size. On top of all of that the ark was about the size of a small aircraft carrier… if metal aircraft carriers can float, i think a wooden one could. Plus the thing wasnt exactly designed to travel the world as much as just float and keep people and animals alive right?
John Doe (what a clever name, maybe I’m talking to a corpse), you’ll notice that that date on that information is March 17th, which after this post come out. My guess is that will all the new attention, they decided to make the information about the project easier to find. I went ahead an updated Chicken’s post.
Being that I love Our Father in Heaven I believe every thing in the Bible and I am happy to see this done.
First to understand how Noah built the ark you have to understand that God the creator of the universe had a hand in it. The animals where brought by God to him and the ark, He created them lol . im sure he could tell them where to gather. But to understand any of that you have to except the fact we are created and there is a Heavenly Father who has power ver all. and that one day before him all knees shall bow and tongues confess that Christ is Lord. believer or not and i pray you find salvation timmmii honestly. Hell is a terrible place and God doesnt want to see you go there. i thinkn its tight that somebody felt that they should make a replica half size. God bless