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Life-sized replica of Noah’s Ark 'will sail'


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Ark builder extraordinaire Johan Huibers plans to sail his “copy of God’s ship” from Holland to Israel – all 2,500-ton of the life-sized replica.

One major hurdle to overcome first, though, is that the Dutch carpenter’s vessel has no motor, so he’ll need to rent tugboats to sail it.

However, tugboats don’t come cheap and will cost the businessman, who made a fortune constructing storage spaces, more than $1.3 million to hire for the journey.

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/life-sized-replica-of-noahs-ark-will-sail-to-israel-says-dutch-carpenter-who-built-it

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Boxes may float, but they can't sail .....   It would last no more than a few minutes on the ocean.

There's a reason modern boats have keels :) 

(Those who wrote the Biblical story had no concept of sea going vessels, hence they described an ark rather than a boat.  An ark is a wooden box - but the "safest" thing they knew as it was what held the covenant.  So must be safe from anything, right?)

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I think of the story of Noah as their version of the older flood stories, but also as a sort of parable about the Ark of the Covenant as well. Maybe they latched onto it for that reason. So many flood stories from that region, there must have been some big ones in various places.

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{quote] The big ark is made of a steel frame [/quote]

I don't remember that being mentioned in the Bible.  Cheat! :P


Of course, in the original stories on which Noah was based, it was the terrific winds and tidal surge wot did the real damage.   Would you sail that boat into a hurricane? :o

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30 minutes ago, seanjo said:

Life size?

It would be close- ish. There seems to be major variations in how long a cubit actually was. 300 cubits in length can give you anywhere between 4 and 500 feet depending on the source. 

Dad used to go on about it when we were kids. He worked for Ken Ham ( to give you a clue as to his strength of beliefs) so we had a never ending source of biblical um....'science'.

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On ‎11‎/‎28‎/‎2018 at 12:27 AM, Still Waters said:

Ark builder extraordinaire Johan Huibers plans to sail his “copy of God’s ship” from Holland to Israel – all 2,500-ton of the life-sized replica.

One major hurdle to overcome first, though, is that the Dutch carpenter’s vessel has no motor, so he’ll need to rent tugboats to sail it.

However, tugboats don’t come cheap and will cost the businessman, who made a fortune constructing storage spaces, more than $1.3 million to hire for the journey.

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/life-sized-replica-of-noahs-ark-will-sail-to-israel-says-dutch-carpenter-who-built-it

Dumb.

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On ‎11‎/‎28‎/‎2018 at 12:34 AM, Not A Rockstar said:

I think of the story of Noah as their version of the older flood stories, but also as a sort of parable about the Ark of the Covenant as well. Maybe they latched onto it for that reason. So many flood stories from that region, there must have been some big ones in various places.

The Genesis version just copied from older stories and the writers created their own version of the story.

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1 minute ago, Truthseeker007 said:

The Genesis version just copied from older stories and the writers created their own version of the story.

What I said, yeah. That it seems to echo the Ark of The Covenant model probably made them like it all the more.

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On 11/27/2018 at 4:35 PM, XenoFish said:

Can we load all the furries on it and see what happens?

Don't know if it can catch fire ? purifying fire ! :devil:

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12 minutes ago, Jon the frog said:

Don't know if it can catch fire ? purifying fire ! :devil:

Isnt there something in the bible about giving riches to the poor. Instead of building this boat. Why didn't he just donate the same amount of money he wasted to charities? Would've been a better use for it.

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Is there going to be dinosaurs? Real Christian dinosaurs? With saddles? I wanna ride the Velociraptor!

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What a waste if money and resources. Why not build some homes, feed some people, do something for society if you have money to p*** away

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1.3 million? A go-fund-me set up would probably bring that in in a couple days. Considering all the fundamentalist Christians in the US who are strong Israel supporters.

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i guess the next natural step is to fill it with two of a kind of every animal.

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7 hours ago, Captain Risky said:

i guess the next natural step is to fill it with two of a kind of every animal.

To bad all the Christians can't get on the boat and sail on out of here.:lol:

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What's up with the obsession with a fictitious boat? Think about how much good this guy could have done if he donated all that money/effort to a proper charity instead of building some bible BS?

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8 hours ago, Seti42 said:

What's up with the obsession with a fictitious boat? Think about how much good this guy could have done if he donated all that money/effort to a proper charity instead of building some bible BS?

I suppose the same could be said about the obsession with disney and a fictitious mouse. 

The sad truth is money breeds money. So rather than use excessive amounts of money for good, moral purposes. The objective is to build crap that other people will pay to see, so you get more money. 

If any good came out of it, hopefully it employed some people to build it ( not charity i mean) to put food on their tables.

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On 11/30/2018 at 7:58 PM, Jon the frog said:

lol, building and moving something that's insanely dumb while a lot of people are starving... for god yeah ! :hmm:

Insanely dumb is believing that by trying to feed the hungry, that no one will be starving or that anything will change. Food is just a temporary fix to hunger, education is however permanent.

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On 11/30/2018 at 8:32 PM, trancelikestate said:

What a waste if money and resources. Why not build some homes, feed some people, do something for society if you have money to p*** away

Because it's his money, not yours. How would you feel if someone told you how you should use your money? That's just ridiculous. You sound like a politician.

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10 hours ago, Trenix said:

Insanely dumb is believing that by trying to feed the hungry, that no one will be starving or that anything will change. Food is just a temporary fix to hunger, education is however permanent.

Yep, there will be people starving all the time, never insinuated otherwise, education quite good yeah, probably better than food but without food, try to learn buddy?

But was it dumb is wasting resources for nothing... and that thing is wasting resources for nothing.

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5 hours ago, Jon the frog said:

Yep, there will be people starving all the time, never insinuated otherwise, education quite good yeah, probably better than food but without food, try to learn buddy?

But was it dumb is wasting resources for nothing... and that thing is wasting resources for nothing.

They're starving because they're uneducated, they're not uneducated because they're hungry. Those resources are not wasteful, someone is benefiting from it whether it's economically or through inspiration. Unfortunately the fact of the matter is, you came just to virtue signal. I heard this starving crap since forever, always coming from the people who are no better than those they try to shame. Maybe he does donate to local charities which he has no obligation to do whatsoever. Explain how any of that has to do with you? Do you donate to charities? Do you feed the people in starving countries? Do you house the homeless?

You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. (Matthew 7:5)

At the end of the day, what he owns and does with his resources, is none of your concern, nor is it wasteful. Stop pushing this communistic agenda.

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