What do you think about the Ark Encounter? (445)

hmm daisyfox...Just don't eat those daisies!

Hey Mr Scott...have you been on the ferry?

Noah is told to make an ark that is 450 feet long (Genesis 6:14-15). The largest wooden ships ever built were just over 300 feet, and they required diagonal iron strapping for support. Even so, they leaked so badly that they had to be pumped constantly. Are we to believe that Noah, with no shipbuilding knowledge and no shipbuilding tradition to rely upon, was able to construct a wooden ship that was longer than any that has been built since?

Whether by twos or by sevens, Noah takes male and female representatives from each species of “every thing that creepeth upon the earth” (Genesis 7:8). Now this must have taken some time, along with expert knowledge of taxonomy, genetics, biogeography, and anatomy. How did Noah manage to collect the endemic species from the New World, Australia, Polynesia, and other remote regions entirely unknown to him? How, once he found them, did he transport them back to his Near Eastern home? How could he tell the male and female beetles (there are more than 500,000 species) apart? How did he know how to care for these new and unfamiliar animals? How did he find the space on the ark? How did he manage to find and care for the hundreds of thousands of parasitic species or the hundreds of thousands of plant species? (Plants are ignored in the Genesis account, but the animals wouldn’t last long if the plants died in the flood.) No, wait, don’t tell me, a miracle happened, millions of them.

All of the animals boarded the ark “in the selfsame day” (Genesis 7:13-14). Since there were several million species involved, they must have boarded at a rate of at least 100 per second. How did poor Noah and his family make sure that the correct number of each species entered through the door and then get them all settled into their proper living quarters so efficiently? I wish the airline companies could do as well!

The flood covered the highest mountain tops (Mount Everest?) with fifteen cubits to spare (Genesis 7:20). Where did all the water come from? Where did it all go? Why is there no evidence of such a massive flood in the geological record?

When the animals left the ark (Genesis 8:19), what would they have eaten? There would have been no plants after the ground had been submerged for nearly a year. What would the carnivores have eaten? Whatever prey they ate would have gone extinct. And how did the New World primates or the Australian marsupials find there way back after the flood subsided?

Noah kills the “clean beasts” and burns their dead bodies for God (Genesis 8:20). According to Genesis 7:8 this would have caused the extinction of all “clean” animals since only two of each were taken onto the ark. So why is it that we still have “clean” animals?


So I don't believe that their was such a thing as an Ark, so the Ark encounter is a wast of money that better can be spend on some useful and more realistic things.

Well I suppose we could send a few more people to the moon.

hmm no ferry here. hahaha

but this is more like it

Cripple creek, Colorado Founded in 1887 largest gold camp in the world at that time :)

9,494 feet above sea level.

It doesn't work for Atheists ......

Yikes $100 just for a peg??? Noah must have been seriously rich!! to build the original all by himself!!

Could be that you're using GodBlock:

..and where did all that water come from and where did it go afterwards ?

You're not getting me again.

Oh Now you have me wanting to explore Caves :)

Lol, apparently some atheists decided to make a web filter that screens out religious content. That was the joke :)

Do you know how much water is in the Oceans? Like, really?

Not exactly, why what is the relevance of that ? ...