Noah's Ark replica

[Johnny Slick]

This article really begs the question, is it seaworthy? I like how it appears to be perched in such a way that it will never, ever get into the water.

[Nick Theodorakis]

Originally Posted by Johnny Slick

This article really begs the question, is it seaworthy? I like how it appears to be perched in such a way that it will never, ever get into the water.

If it's full scale, then no. No pure wooden sea-worthy ship was ever built that large, and those much over 300 ft even had problems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...t_wooden_ships

Nick

[Joostik]

Originally Posted by Nick Theodorakis

No pure wooden sea-worthy ship was ever built that large, and those much over 300 ft even had problems.

But then this isn't a real wooden replica. As mentioned above, it has a steel substructure.

Originally Posted by Andrew of Ware

I don't know any Christian who believes that 4,004 BC is the creation date of the earth - certainly not in my church which has a lot of scientists in it (Glaxo has a big site in Ware).

Unfortunately, the Netherlands has a small but pretty influential (they are part of the current government) Christian fundamentalist minority. There have been efforts to propagate creationism in Dutch schools.

[Don Enrico]

Originally Posted by Eddylizard

[hijack] Where does this 6,000 year number for the age of the Earth I keep hearing actually come from?

Originally Posted by Andrew of Ware

The person who first said that age of the earth was created in 4004 BC was Dr. John Lightfoot, a seventeenth century Anglican clergyman - yes the good old Church of England (my church!) is to blame. Bishop James Ussher made the same calculation about ten years later and now gets all the credit. Very decent of him.

I had to look it up, but the Jewish calendar is counting the year 5770, and that is "from the beginning of the world". Does anybody know how they arrived at that date?

Don Enrico

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Originally Posted by Eddylizard

I also reckon Noah and his family had a lot of mucking out to do on the voyage.

Nah, they just taught all the animals to go to the poop deck.

[Cyrano]

Originally Posted by fitz1980

Oh and don't forget that if the story is literally true than there was a global flood and somehow Noah had to be able to deposit all of the marsupials in Australia.

As I once told an Australian friend who brought forth the same argument (we were making fun of Creationism):

Heresy! There's not a single word about Australia in the Bible, ergo: Australia does not exist!

[Andrew of Ware]

Originally Posted by Don Enrico

Does anybody know how they arrived at that date?

Ussher - and maybe Lightfoot - was even more precise about the date. He said that God began creating the world on Sunday, 23rd October, 4004 BC.

I have been told that Lightfoot used the genealogies in the Bible, especially the one at the start of Matthew which traces Jesus' family tree back to Adam. He had to use several of these lists as many are not complete. The fact that often the Old Testament often does not say how old people were when they had their children does not seem to have worried him Lightfoot.

Quite how the 23rd of October was reached I have no idea, but I have also heard that God began his work at 09:00. Well obviously - God works a nine to five day.

[obxbaby54]

Ever since at least 1973, when I had to travel from the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia west to WVU in Morgantown, along then Route 40 and now I-68 somewhere in Maryland was a sign that proclaimed that a replica of Noah's Ark was going to be built.

I haven't been that way for a while, but the last time I traveled that road, the ark was still MIA.

Guess Wal-Mart was out of cubits.