Thankyou Rod for sharing the story of Noah and the flood on Friday.
Your cardboard model was very interesting and not what I really imagined the ark to look like.
This guy from Hollands gone a bit further : http://www.arkvannoach.com/language/en/index.htm
Unfortunately a very topical subject given the dreadful flooding that has affected many people in this country these past few weeks.
This is triggering much debate on climate change again. You might be interested in this campaign from the Christian Ecology Link. http://www.operationnoah.org/
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The pictures on theat website from Holland are amazing!
Well spotted!
I agree - the scale of the building task for Noah (given the tools available at that time) and the sheer bulk makes the whole ark thing much more incredible. He could not go down to the Euphrates Timber Merchants and buy ready planed planks, each one would need to be hewn from trees cut down using, by our standards fairly crude axes - no Black and Decker in those days!
In my checking I found that the shape was exceptionally good to withstand heavy seas. For those not there on Friday the ark was about the size of a cross-channel ferry and no ship of the same size was built in the world until 1884.
For me this makes the miraculous nature of it all even more startling.
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