Noah's Ark Being Rebuilt

[Garrette]

I know it's claimed to have been rebuilt elsewhere, but I drive past this particular Noah's Ark rebuilding at least a few times a year for the past several years.

The website says construction began in 1976, but I have seen no progress on it beyond what is shown in the photo on the web. This despite the website claims that god has been providing all the building material required.

I'm also wondering where cement and steel are mentioned in the Biblical specs.

Finally, they mention the dimensions (450' x 75' x 45') as if it's enormous. I wonder how many container ships or naval vessels they've seen.

Which leads to my pointless questions: Do people such as this honestly convince themselves that they are doing something of value? Or that they are doing something that demonstrates biblical truth?

If so, how can they maintain the facade in the face of simple facts like gopher wood does not equal concrete and cement?

Website here: http://www.godsark.org/

 

[I less than three logic]

Rebuilt?

 

[Freethinker]

If Noah could do it, why is it taking them so long?

 

[I less than three logic]

If Noah could do it, why is it taking them so long?

Probably just procrastinating. They don't have the motivation of knowing you'll drown soon if you don't finish.

 

[Tanstaafl]

WTF?

They're making a steel-framed building with a wood ship facade, and this is supposed to demonstrate...something?

Am I missing something?

 

[Marquis de Carabas]

I have a strange urge to procure the adjacent lot and build me a Tower of Babel.

 

[Tricky]

If Noah could do it, why is it taking them so long?

According to their site, they only build when they get a donation, i.e. they are not borrowing money. If you look at their construction pictures, they have only a tiny fraction completed. It could be a loooooong time. The architectural sketch is very impressive though.

 

[Tanstaafl]

I have a strange urge to procure the adjacent lot and build me a Tower of Babel.

I think a Center For Inquiry next door would be good.

 

[webfusion]

The Ark has already been reproduced ---
in miniature, at the Biblical Zoo, in Jerusalem.
http://www.snunit.k12.il/sachlav/zoo/english/upload/tour/noah.html

 

[logic]

How about a hospital for the mentally insane!!

 

[H'ethetheth]

And of course, there's this loony in the Netherlands building one with more authentic materials. However, the thing will be one third the size and unable to float, so it's going to be towed on a barge and function as a silly bible theme park.

It's mostly in Dutch, but it has some nice pictures and an English movie.

 

[Ladewig]

WTF?

They're making a steel-framed building with a wood ship facade, and this is supposed to demonstrate...something?

Am I missing something?

It is supposed to demonstrate God's love for mankind. Of course, the irony of using Noah's Ark (a symbol of God's killing 99.999 % of the world's population) as a symbol of God's love appears to be lost on this man.

I am also surprised that a preacher would ignore Luke 14:28 - 29

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

 

[triadboy]

Wasn't there only one window on the original Ark? That really ups the stench factor.

 

[Darth Rotor]

If so, how can they maintain the facade in the face of simple facts like gopher wood does not equal concrete and cement?

Website here: http://www.godsark.org/

If they wanted to do this right, they'd have gotten ahold of Bill Cosby. "What's a cubit?"

As to dimensions, I think the keel is longer than a clipper ship's.

IIRC, Nelson's Victory is not as long as this ark.

DR

 

[Ysidro]

Hey guys. First post and I'm making it to the Religion and Philosophy forum. I must be crazy.

Anyway, I used to live down there and I've passed the "Ark" many a time. It really is just a skeleton of a ship right now. Kind of sad really.

 

[snooziums]

Why is there an image of Jesus on the front page of their site? Jesus was not born until about 3,000 - 2,000 years after the ark was "built," according to Bible history.

And why does the ark have a pointed bow and a sloped roof? I thought the "original" one was supposed to be rectangle, like a barge?

Once completed, the Ark will house a Christian school, Bible college, 1,500 seat auditorium, conference facilities, a Noah’s Ark historical room, counseling center, and facilities for radio and television.

Darn, I had no idea that those were on the "original" ark. I must have missed something.

...was to be built as a sign to the world of God’s love and the soon return of Jesus!

Yay! Jesus's love involves drowning people, what fun!

Night after night in April, May and June of 1974, Pastor Richard Greene had a vision in which he saw a large ark located on a hillside and people coming from all over the world to see it.

A bit too much weed or something?

Steel reinforcement rod was needed and God spoke to a man to donate it.

God never speaks to anyone about donating to needy causes, I guess.

Oh well...

As they said on their site: "God loves you" (as he brings about the end times and destroys us all).

 

[Darth Rotor]

As they said on their site: "God loves you" (as he brings about the end times and destroys us all).

Tough love, perhaps, on a cosmic scale.

DR

 

[Marquis de Carabas]

Tough love, perhaps, on a cosmic scale.

DR

Revelation 6:1 (CarabasCorp Revised Version)

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder: Behold, this shalt hurt me, yea, more than thee it shall hurt.

 

[Mercutio]

Their own drawings show that a giraffe can't fit through the door.


Myth busted...

 

[GregC]

I didn't know that Noah was a big hoops fan. I think a half court would have been big enough for a game of 2 on 2 or even a coed game of 4 on 4.