Now This is a Boat!
It’s actually a replica of Noah’s Ark, built to one-fifth scale according to the specifications spelled out in the Bible.
It took Johan Huibers, a Dutchman, two years to build it with modern technology. Imagine how hard it was for Noah to build it by hand.
Of course, it’s only a replica of the biblical Ark, built by Dutch creationist Johan Huibers as a testament to his faith in the literal truth of the Bible.
Reckoning by the old biblical measurements, Johan’s fully functional ark is 150 cubits long, 30 cubits high and 20 cubits wide. That’s two-thirds the length of a football field and as high as a three-story house.
Life-size models of giraffes, elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras, bison and other animals greet visitors as they arrive in the main hold.
“The design is by my wife, Bianca,” Huibers said. “She didn’t really want me to do this at all, but she said if you’re going to anyway, it should look like this.”
A contractor by trade, Huibers built the ark of cedar and pine — biblical scholars debate exactly what the wood used by Noah would have been.
Huibers did the work mostly with his own hands, using modern tools and occasional help from his son Roy. Construction began in May 2005.
On the uncovered top deck — not quite ready in time for the opening — will come a petting zoo, with baby lambs and chickens, and goats. And one camel.
Visitors on the first day were stunned.
“It’s past comprehension,” said Mary Louise Starosciak, who happened to be bicycling by with her husband while on vacation when they saw the ark looming over the local landscape.
“I knew the story of Noah, but I had no idea the boat would have been so big.”
In fact, Noah’s Ark as described in the Bible was five times larger than Johan’s Ark.
Read the rest of the story.
Written by ~J~
Big Mo Says:
April 29th, 2007 at 6:54 pmVisit Big Mo
I regularly converse with someone who insists the flood never happened because science tells him so.
But he said this today, without any comprehension of the incredible irony of what he was writing:
“We know Noah’s Ark and the flood never happened. Since the Devil is the father of lies, what if that story was created to make people afraid of God? Prove it isn’t so.”
He had no answer.
~J~ Says:
April 29th, 2007 at 7:24 pmVisit ~J~
Big Mo, tell your friend that what we believe to be the remnants of the ark have been found on Mount Ararat, just where we were told by The Scientist it landed.
smh10 Says:
April 29th, 2007 at 10:03 pmVisit smh10
Just got a chance to link over and read to whole story.
What an accomplishment!