This man has built an educational display for the purpose of enlightening people on the prospects of God’s intervention in the affairs of man. God is apparently important to this fellow, and he chose to spend his own money and resources to express that fact.

I venture he spent less money on it than is spent every week on porno, drugs and gambling. However, the right to “do as they will” with their own would never be questioned for those pursuits.

Noah had a wife, 3 sons and their wives to help build the ark. Perhaps a few power tools equalled the playing field a bit.

The roughly 1.5 million cubic feet could have easily housed the 30,000 species of mammals, ampibians, reptiles and birds described as passngers on the ark. A large majority of the animals are smaller than 50 pounds in weight, and 10,000 of the species would have been birds.

Yes, the Bible is an interesting book, full of outlandish stories. However, the history and future of man is plainly written there. As we approach our single global governance and a single currency (news stories abound regarding these two facts) the words of Revelations 13:16,17 are seemingly much more possible than we ever imagined.

Do not be afraid. Yeshua lives.

1. It’s precisely because I did the research that I was able to pull not only Mr. Huibers’ ark’s dimensions, but also those of the original.

2. The same research uncovered the fact that he used power tools. I should, perhaps, have been more explicit on this point.

3. Point well taken re: crawlies.

4. I don’t know about your family, but if Noah’s family was like anybody I know, I’m sure there was plenty of talk. It’s easy enough to get a bit cross after a long car ride, to say nothing of weeks bobbing around in a large boat, so I can also picture Noah yelling to/at one or more of his family, “Don’t make me come back there!”

5. I’ll confess that I haven’t dug a single well in Ethiopia. But if I had the kind of money that’s already been spent on these projects… Let me be clear on something: I don’t take exception to someone wanting to witness to their faith. But let me be equally clear on something else, by way of repetition: I think that using the same time, effort, and money that’s built an ark (and the additional funds that will now, apparently, go to building yet another as if the point wasn’t made the first time) could’ve gone to anything from digging wells in Ethiopia to providing drinkable water in India, or even just helping the less fortunate in, say, Rotterdam.

Finally, you say, “Building a boat to the dimensions of the Bible is a grand answer to the cynics who say – the animals couldn’t fit, or a boat that big wouldn’t float etc. It shows the Bible true.”

It might do that, but if someone’s that cynical (ie. they’re going to pin the veracity, or lack thereof, of the Bible on a single point), one gets the feeling they’d just find some new thing to nitpick. What do you do then? Reconstruct the Tower of Babel?

We don’t need such grand gestures, cynics be damned.

2. We don’t know what sort of tools they would have had in Noah’s time. Metal working had been around for several hundred years so it would not be a stretch to think they may have used hammers and nails etc, or tools that we don’t even have!

3. Crawlies don’t take up a lot of room! Besides Noah’s ark only specified pairs of land animals & birds – but for sure crawlies would have been inadvertantly on the ark (hard to keep them off!). Many would also have survived on floating vegetation etc.

4. It doesn’t say whether Noah & his family spoke to each other on the boat also – so I think they were mute the whole time. ;P

5. According to BBC – Mr Huibers said his wife was not very keen on the idea. “She always says: ‘Why don’t you go dig wells in Ethiopia?’,” he said. “I’ve been involved in projects there before but she understands this is my dream.”

How many wells in Ethiopia have you dug Paul?

Building a boat to the dimensions of the Bible is a grand answer to the cynics who say – the animals couldn’t fit, or a boat that big wouldn’t float etc. It shows the Bible true.

Of course, with that said, if our roles were reversed, I’m guessing I wouldn’t be comforted by the fact that you got better service than I did. As with any review, the usual disclaimer applies: Your mileage may vary.

My review is fair and realistic. I am not a kid and I am very serious about my dining experience. About a week ago, I might have given them 4 stars, because the food is pretty good and the service is ok. A little noisy for my taste, but fine, I am not a old man who can’t stand some loud music, but here is the problem.

We went out Saturday to celebrate my wife’s birthday. I can understand that they don’t take reservations and I knew that, but when most of the party was already in and waiting to suprise my wife, they were not allowed to sit unless we were there. Not to mention they were treated rude and unfair. When I arived, I approached the manager who had a extremely nasty tone for no apparent reason and he refused, I repeat refused to give us a table. Basically we were told to leave. For what? There was no problem up to that point and there was no attitude from our side. The only attitude I noticed is from the girl at the front desk and the manager. When I asked him if the owners knew how he manages the place, telling a party of 20 to leave. His reply was ‘I don’t care, you have to leave now!!’. I have never been treated like that in my life. That only tells me one thing, the place doesn’t care about their customers. You will not want to waste your time hoping that the management might be in the good mood. You do not want to bring your friends and family only to embarass yourself and hope that someone, like a manager will do you a favor. This is not some kid that causes problems. We are all professional adults with the families, kids, good careers and it was uncalled for.

Now, while we started telling this unfortunate experience to some people, we realize that it is not an isolated incident and strongly advice for people not to go Cuban Pete’s. Do not punish yourself and your party. Find a place that cares about you and your money. You will not be sorry you read this. It will ensure you avoid the same rudeness that we had to encounter.

–The crew had not, as you mentioned, been trained properly. The equipment that was onhand wasn’t deployed effectively, and the hydrants, when abandoned, weren’t usually turned off or capped. At a certain point, abandoned hydrants were sapping pressure from the system as a whole. Water pressure, especially on decks A through C, was effectively reduced to that of a garden hose.
–The extent of the fire upon its discovery was already, perhaps, larger than the ship’s firefighting equipment could handle in the hands of an untrained crew
–Acting Captain Warms’s actions (namely, steering the ship head-on into a gale, fanning the flames) served to further worsen the situation.
–Finally, the explosion of the black powder used as a propellant for the ship’s Lyle gun (which had been stored in a false ceiling over the fire’s probable point of origin) not only fed the flames, but also caused structural damage that served as a further source of oxygen for the fire.