t is difficult to imagine the true scope and magnitude of Noah's Ark and how it managed to fit in a pair of every animal in the world, but the Ark Encounter built by the Creation Museum aims to do just that.
According to CBN News, the real-life ark is so huge that it takes the length of two football fields. "This is 510 feet long, 85 feet wide, 51 feet high," said Answers in Genesis founder and Creation Museum head Ken Ham. "It's built 15 feet off the ground. One of the things people say when they come here, they stand and look at it and they say, 'Wow, we never realised this was so big.'"
Ham explained that the feeling of awe is what he wants to elicit from visitors since this will inspire them to delve deeper into the story of Noah and learn more about God's magnificence. "That's really what we're doing here: showing the feasibility of this: how could Noah feed them? How could they get rid of the waste?" Ham said.
"What we want people to take away from this is 'I didn't realise Noah's Ark was so big and wow, they answered a lot of questions,'" he added. "And we're not forcing the Christian message on them, but it's going to be there for them. And if people just go away saying 'hmm, maybe I need to look into this. Maybe I need to consider what the Bible says,' then to me, we've accomplished a lot."
They will be opening their doors on July 7, and Ham explained that there is a good reason why they chose that date. "In Genesis 7:7 it says that's when Noah and his family entered the ark," he said. "So we thought the 7th of the 7th would be a good time to open."
Meanwhile, Mark Looy, who is the co-founder of Answer in Genesis, revealed that they will not stop with just the Ark Encounter.
"Over the years, we're also going to recreate other events from the Book of Genesis and even the Book of Exodus," Looy said. "We'll get into other events of biblical history like the Tower of Babel and also Exodus and the parting of the Red Sea."
