Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Awesome! I'd love to see this!

 Awesome!
 Working Replica of  Noah's   Ark opened In SCHAGEN,   Netherlands .
     Man Builds Noah's Ark  to the exact scale given in the  Bible.


The massive  central door in the side of Noah's Ark was opened

and the first crowd of curious  townsfolk beheld the wonder.

This replica of the  biblical Ark was built by Dutch Creationist
Johan Huibers as a testament to his faith in the  literal truth of the Bible.   



The 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-sized models of giraffes, elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras, bison

and other animals greet visitors as they arrive in the main  hold.     



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 with 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 beyond 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!'

There is enough space near the keel for a 50-seat film theater where kids can watch a video that tells the story of
Noah and his ark. Huibers, a Christian man, said  he hopes the project will renew interest in
Christianity in the Netherlands, where church going has fallen dramatically in the past 50  years.  



Now that I am  old and gray....

give me the time to tell this  new generation (and their children too
about  all of Your mighty  miracles.
Psalm 71:18

 

 

 

 

 

 

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