Noah's ark project in Ky. to move forward
Noah’s ark project in KY to move forward
“Creation Museum founder Ken Ham announced Thursday that a municipal bond offering has raised enough money to begin construction on the Ark Encounter project, estimated to cost about $73 million. Groundbreaking is planned for May and the ark is expected to be finished by the summer of 2016.”
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The worldwide flood itself was a miracle. The head’s up Noah got was a revelation from heaven. And as you mention, getting two or seven of every kind was probably the result of divine intervention. Plenty of the miraculous all around.
My point was not to dispute the miraculous, but to question the basis for Chris’s claim that the boat was a miracle. There doesn’t appear to be anything miraculous about boat being seaworthy for a year.
Fair enough. Guess I didn’t read Chris’s post as pertaining only to the pitch and gopher wood.
[dgszweda] I have been going to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry ever since I was a little kid.
We were home on furlough when I was in the 11th grade and one of the BMM Tri-Annual meetings was at a large baptist church in Hobart, IN (I remember an announcement about the correct way to pronounce it - bert not bart). They had activities for all of the MK’s each day and 1 of those was a trip to the museum. I still remember how impressed I was with it, and a return visit is on my bucket list.
p.s. the other 2 things that stand out in my memory from visiting supporting churches that furlough (remember now that I was 16 going on 17) were:
1. We ate really well at folks homes, never went out to eat but church folks made sure the missionaries didn’t leave hungry.
2. Pretty girls - every weekend a different church with lots of them. I was the visiting MK from a foreign country so got some attention!
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[Larry]The worldwide flood itself was a miracle. The head’s up Noah got was a revelation from heaven. And as you mention, getting two or seven of every kind was probably the result of divine intervention. Plenty of the miraculous all around.
My point was not to dispute the miraculous, but to question the basis for Chris’s claim that the boat was a miracle. There doesn’t appear to be anything miraculous about boat being seaworthy for a year.
Well for nothing to have approached its size until the Titanic was created was pretty remarkable or even miraculous 4,000 years earlier. The fact that we have no record anywhere of shipbuilding taking 60-120 years is also miraculous. The fact that no ship has had the capability of staying out at sea a whole year, until nuclear boats were built and even those don’t stay at sea a year is pretty miraculous. The fact that each one of these was pulled off flawlessly, without a loss of life, animal or problems with the ship is even miraculous by today’s technology. The USS. Enterprise only lasted 54 years from start until retirement. Wooden ships even last less time. All seems miraculous to me.
even with modern manufacturing tools and our vast ship-building knowledge, it’s not possible to build an all-wood seaworthy cargo vessel with those dimensions. closest thing ever made to a big all-wood seaworthy cargo boat was the wyoming. it had 90 diagonal iron cross-braces along each side of its 330 foot long hull and steam-powered pumps that ran constantly to keep water out. it still sank in 1924 and took its 14-person crew to their grave.
now take out the cross-bracing and pumps; replace 14 experienced sailors with 8 first-timers; and add 120 feet to the hull length and cargo that probably required some tending instead of just being inanimate like the wyoming’s load of coal.
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