Ark Encounter - Noah’s Ark Replica Theme Park 

Wonder World there is one big difference, the ark is there to indoctrinate children with lies. It looks different than the facts are. Ken Ham build this to let his religion grow. More and more are becoming creationists and that is not a good thing. The average level of education in the USA is declining fast with creationists growing. The USA dropped from nr 1 to 39 and it does not stop there. Every year it gets worse and the biggest factor is religion. Creationists are removing evolution out of schools, start church schools where not educated people teach children what they find important and as this all us not possible, parents keep there children home and home school them with there view on the world and with what they want there children to know. All this showed a big decline in knowledge what effects companies in the USA. Because of this, many big companies in the USA are getting there people from other countries and many important jobs where you need a high education for, are now taken over by people from other countries. Smaller companies can't afford them and grow less. Also the amount of development of new things is declining. The USA was world leader, but lost that spot and not only that, it is declining. As you remove all foreign students, than the USA drops out of the list of western countries on education level. As you remove all workers on high places in the USA, Google, apple, Microsoft and so on, will loose a lot of knowledge and will have a very hard time to do what they do now. This is all an effect from letting religion, control your schools. That they can do this, is because more and more politicians in the USA are religious where more and more Americans become atheïsts. But the group of Atheïsts is still very small and even with the growth, it can't fight against the 42% creationists that also grow. You see also a growing number of flat earthers in the USA. Even that number is higher than the amount of atheïsts. And yes, the USA must have it from the Atheïsts that have by average by far the highest education. Ad you want to see the results of religion, just look ad the Bible belt and see the numbers. Education level is lower. Higher unimployed numbers. Higher crime rates and than a specially with murder and sex crimes. Lower income. This all because of religion. So no the ark is noting like Disney and ad you are smart, you keep your children away from it. Children raised religious score lower than non religious children and that has noting to do with iq and all with religion!

@@emiel1976ep The fact on home school children is they score much higher on tests then public school children do.

@@emiel1976ep I'd be very interested to see where you got those numbers from. Remember.... Correlation does not equal causation. That's a pretty fundamental tenet of science there, big guy. The "rise of religion" only exists in your atheist mind. If it were real abortion, which has to be the biggest slap in the face of God in the history of the world, would be outlawed again. Or, we would be marching in the streets protesting until it was. Churches that were once full are now struggling just to keep the doors open. I know a lot of "Christians" and very few of them actually go to church. I know several "pastors" who drink, for Pete's sake. "Oh, it's no big deal man... God doesn't care if I drink or even get high once in a while" sure it doesn't.... That's why your church is empty, right? Lots of them don't actually believe what they preach. Millennials are buying your BS and dropping out of "organized religion" because they seem to think Google makes them too smart for that "uneducated pastor" over there... The whole country has become over sexualized. I don't know why anyone is even surprised that the teenage pregnancy and illegitimacy rates and skyrocketing. Children performing provocative dance moves, dressing up like hookers for hallowee - actually for school now. I have 3 teenage daughters and the things I see other girls wearing to school would make the dog blush! Sex is everywhere. It's disgusting how everyone now thinks it's not only ok, but to be admired when a woman utterly destroys her husband in divorce court. When she cheats on him and then falsely accuses him of getting violent with her... All because society tells her it's ok and that she should go for whatever makes her happy. And she's met with applause for it everywhere she goes. The nuclear family is being attacked from all sides. All that you see like poorly educated kids, violence in school, teenage pregnancy, etc. is due to the destruction of families. If for no other reason, 1 man and 1 woman raising children together became a thing many centuries ago, because it works. Sickening. Oh, and it's spelled "unemployment".

@Rolf Lampa To all Above especially emeil, I am not into religion, I just thought this was a unique theme park, regardless of it's hidden agenda, people in general are smart, if they go for a fun day out and feel pressured into believing something they don't believe , they will usually grab there kids and leave and won't come back. no one forces you to go, no one forces you to stay and believe. it's all about choice.

@Rolf Lampa The geological record is evidence of no global flood. But is evidence of several regional floods that have thousands of years of variance. And when investigating individual claims of similarities of civilizations, you find they are not as alike as Christians would like them to be.

It is anchored to the ground and would just collapse if surrounded by actual water.

There was a flood in Kentuky following some heavy rains. Ironically the ark was damaged by it.

@@donbeadling5426 lol

The people in Kentucky are diluted and stupid enough to do just that. Religion is POISION!

Considering it had been damaged by rain already .. it would be fun to watch them sinking

The fact that you put Sheps image for you tells us all we need to know. I have studied all the dips in history all had something to do with people believing lies. Some people love to be lied to. Lies that start small. Turning water into wine, healing the sick that will get better anyway. Walking on water, (he learned how to surf) Then after he was gone 200 years of embellishing stories and the lies really got bigger and bigger, Finally the biggie, Everlasting life. Well, that kind of like brought some real money in, Kings came with gold, so these words used to control the masses. Editing must have been a pain in the ass because the king always had the final say or off with their heads. So, they pull in all these stories from every other religion that got the biggest attention over the years. I love the talking snake one, I'm guessing here but I bet it was mushrooms, not an apple. Just a theory. The book would have been so much better if it was sold as parables, cautionary tales for possible a better life and avoiding the potholes we all see even today. Had they billed it that way I would probably be a bible salesman. But no. They had to push it as all facts. I was brought up in a catholic boarding school and wanted to believe it all to. But even after getting kicked out of second grade because I had questions that didn't make sense of the answers they gave, Yet I stayed with it and at some point, you have to stop lying to myself about that stuff. I grew up. Not believing in Santa eventually and seeing the world as it is. Please grow up. The world has real problems, and we need everyone on board to help this place get on track or we are done for. Stop complaining about electric cars. sure, there are issues but it's a starting point and it's blowing away gas cars. It just is It's a fact. Unlike some other text.

The ark is near its end. Bank is taking it over. We are taking it over and making it into the biggest Rave destination in the country. We will have several different rave music style areas. There will be executive suits, large rooms with wall-to-wall mattresses for the orgies. I'm (Dave L. Worship) and heading up this operation. Financing is provided by (Lou Safer) . (please don't stare at his horns, he is very self conscious about them. And he usually has pants on so you hardly notice the tail. He may even develop area 9 floors under the ark. Those will be mostly for indentured servitude; you know the people that are coming to this country for a better life. They will start at the bottom and work their way to the top. At that point they are welcome to stay and work with the regular staff. We love them all. All colors, races, sexual preferences. We will also have several different rooms for taboo deviances. After all we are a religion so we can do what we want and say its protected and keep all the money with zero taxes. What a country.

Lol ffs tell me you are joking

@@RedDevil_Joe No. I believe God created everything,Humans are a creation from a God. A spirit . I believe in a after life, after human death. I dont think life happened by chance by itself . I believe some how God created the animals.. I wasnt there to see but i believe theres an intelligent spirit being,God, Jesus was real and telling the truth, i believe theres a devil and demons ,like the bible says..

@@RedDevil_Joe Ive got to see a spirit being made of light once when i was 6 years old,in a dark hallway..Face to face.. So theres another deminshion of existence.

@@RedDevil_Joe In this world you are seen as crazy to believe in Jesus. Im actually right about God being real. I stick by that ill never change my mind about that.

@@Pray-4-Me you quite literally cannot say “I’m actually right about god being real”….

Yea, like the pyramids.

Lol no need, they had giants.

Do you mean cranes? Large machinery used to lift and lower heavy objects?

@@marilynblake2188 yes, cranes, I meant, I'm sorry.

Its not Graden its Garden ok

@@roysmith9819 I think they should throw a bunch of dead bodies and cats and dogs around that lake and let the kids do a little drowning animal zoo.

Yep, built more things that never existed.

Slam dunk !!!

The gift shop would be a church or a chapel

I don't think it floats

I just got back. I believe in evolution, but was totally impressed.

there's no mythology, this young earth nonsense is just something really recent and local, there were no people saying those stupid things in the past and the catholic church fully embrace evolution, so it's only a bunch of idiots with too much moneys and time in the south of the united states believing this.

@@AndreaRoll There is mythology, they may not be the truth, but they still exist

Y'all are just denying God's mighty work just like denying Christi's lord and king

@@spiritualwartv Yes we don’t believe in such nonsense

Correction: noah

wow I did not know that, thanks.

"The Ark of Noah (also known as the Ark of Johan ) is a wooden and STEEL reconstruction of the eponymous biblical ark , built by the Dutch contractor and carpenter Johan Huibers. Huibers built the ark with eight helpers in four years; 12,000 trees were used. The exterior is made of PINE (not gopher wood) that is weather-resistant, but which is aging due to sun and rain. The construction costs were 4 million euros. The ark was opened to the public in Dordrecht in 2012 . In 3.5 years time the ship attracted 280,000 visitors. The ark moved to a temporary berth in Krimpen aan den IJssel in 2016 , and has since been closed to the public. The ark can be towed by tugboats over the inland waters, but is not seaworthy. Huibers wants to go to overseas destinations with the ark, the ark will then be transported by sea on a large pontoon or transport ship. Elsewhere on the world there are two other large replicas of Noah's Ark. In 2009 Noah 's Ark was opened in Hong Kong , and in 2016 Noah 's Ark in Kentucky . They are not boats but buildings on solid ground, in contrast to the floating Ark of Johan" Wikipedia.

Huh. Never heard of it. And i live close by. Like town close by not country closeby. If you live in the netherlands everything is relatively close by.

Everything in the Netherlands is either on or under the water.

You're in luck. There's never a line up!

You may change you mind when you see how expensive tickets are. Why don't you spend that money feeding and clothing the poor? Seems that's what Jesus would do.

@@pontifixmax yep, guess why.

@b1itsjustme Reading comprehension fails you, I guess you are "educated" above your intelligence .

Yeah but god, why kill off the animals? What did they do?

@@harrygearhart4520 Uhm...If God did "Kill them off", why are they still here?

@@edenspalace3156 What is with you religious nuts? GOD DID MURDER OFF THE ANIMALS THAT WEREN'T ON THE ARK. Drowned puppies, kittens, baby birds still in their nests, Oh but you don't see it, DO YOU!! In WWII about 50 million people died, BUT WE ARE STILL HERE! So of those 50 million about half were murdered. SOMEBODY MURDERED THEM!!!!!! This is called critical thinking, something you Christians can't do!

The modern version also includes electricity, insulation, plumbing, and a bunch of other modern technology. None of that would have been included in the original ark so it would've taken less time to build. The Bible doesn't say how long it took Noah and his family to build the ark, but according to the timeline of the story it's reasonable to assume it took about 70 years. The Bible also doesn't say if other people helped Noah build the ark, but I find that unlikely.

@@KappaHunter yes and it doesn’t say that anyone was helping them .. plus in modern ark they just brought the materials … and back in the day they would still have to find a proper trees cut then , prepare them ant transport … and also most of the time which people spend back in the day was to try to sort out some food .. so there is that

Noah also was 950 years old when he died

@@spritecarton625 And he and his wife were 482 when they conceived all 3 sons at once...

Read the bible. It took Noah 120 years! Goes to show how little you know when you don't even read the biblical account. ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS IS HOW LONG IT TOOK NOAH, HIS SONS AND ANY OTHER HELP HE MIGHT HAVE HAD. SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU GET THE 500 YEARS FROM?? Genesis 6:3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.God gave the human race 120 years to repent. Noah used that 120 years to build the ark. You reckon the people repented? NOPE! Only 8 souls went into the ark.Noah's ark is a type of the Tribulation that is coming very soon. This time we had 2000 years to repent, and believe on Jesus Christ. But, once again, most don't want to hear it. So, most will wind up going through the 7 year tribulation, run by the antichrist in a One-World global communist-style government.See anything happening in the world that highlights this?In this 7 years period, the bible says food will be scarce. Disease will kill billions of people. Wars and rumors of wars. Natural disasters, floods, earthquakes, droughts, high temperatures.Covid-19 is a disease that will result in millions and millions of deaths. Not Covid itself, but the "vaccines".Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, etc, etc are on the brink. Cash is disappearing. No cash will exist in the tribulation. Noone will buy of sell without the mark of the antichrist on his right hand or forehead.Look around the world for the floods mand earthquakes and tsunamis, and hotter temperatures. Jesus is coming right at the end of the 7 years. If you're not save by the blood of Christ, YOU'RE STUFFED!!! 1 Corinthians 15:1-4

Hope that's private school and not my tax dollars wasted in support in a titanic of slander.

No lol he refused people on the boat and watched them drown. He probably would have charged $20 for 1 Coke.

@@raquiely Right, right, Noah didnt just make that part up after the fact to cover his ass, nope not at all

Yeah if God built it and collected all the animals. Why was he punishing animals?

Especially evil

@@imateapot51 To save them from the flood...duh!

Well ofc, that's how magic works 🙄

@GOD IS AN OPIATE FOR THE MASSES I rebuke you by fire and by force in Jesus name.

@GOD IS AN OPIATE FOR THE MASSES Why is it your concern first of daylight? Devil behind me.

God?

He hired other workers to help him build it.

With God, all things are possible

read the bible it tells you the true story of Noah and the ark rember he had gods holy spirit that's why Noah and he's family 8 people could complete this mammoth task and the name of the trees he used and tarmac and measurements every thing was designed by the grand designer god so could never fail

@@edenspalace3156 no it dies not say this in the bible if that was the case their would have been more suvivers rember their was only 8

Double Twelve *don’t *having

@@morgan3437 thanks

Dumbass,shame on you for using our flag as your profile.

Very funny. No this one won't float. There are three emergency exit stairwell towers. Building safety codes enforced. It was built to show that it could be done.

c b do people not understand this is a model of it it‘s not built to go on water even though the real one could the just used the measurements in the Bible of course it’s not gonna look completely accurate no one has seen it!

@@morgan3437 So it's just a one hundred million dollar pile of wood then. A model of something no one has ever seen. Now I get it, thanks for clearing that up.

trees in thousands of years ago was in abundance

@@naomimincher2205 well today we are running out of trees because of Man chopping down huge areas of forests and tree's are critical to our survival because they are the lungs of the earth and they make the oxygen we breathe and every other living thing on earth and without any trees the human race will simply die!

Steve Mikre it does

You said it.

@Graham Rathbone Is this statement using your logic as irony to prove the top comment. ? It certainly does.

@Graham Rathbone Yet, you wouldn't address *it. Funny no? < Address what as funny ? What is the* it ? So - you didn't spot that ANY comment criticizing *it would be ironic because the comment itself is about criticism? I think the top comment was ironically saying that the comments show how ignorant people are . Whether the Believe the Kin Ham view of the Ark story or not. Is that how you understood my comment ? Maybe i didn't understand yours either. .

@Graham Rathbone So i can't tell if you are against the Ark replica of not . That is what i meant by are you using irony .

@Graham Rathbone "why you guys" Sorry to bug you again but what do you mean or who do you mean by you guys . You mean Me and the top comment. Whoever Top comment is how can you tell what they believe. ? And again are you supporting the ark exhibits portrayal of the Ark narrative from the Hebrew Bible ?

Vincent Atkins haha

This wasn’t for God, he told Noah to do that not these guys. This is just a replica

Before the flood there was only one landmass. Remember your science classes...tectonic plates?

I doubt it's water tight, the base is probably built onto a concrete slab and not an actual keel of a boat.

@@WonderWorldYTC yeah, the entrances are ground level which would basically flood the whole structure and apparently there are normal building built onto be back of it

The so called ark was damaged by the rain … so go figure

This was built to show it could be done. There are three towers connected to it containing stairwells. Building code for emergency exits.

@@user-xv3gl8kh2u it was built with modern tools. Proves nothing.

C Nault nope sadly not it’s built standing on stilts

Most Christians don’t really believe this also it could be kind of true ( the flood part that is as it is believe that there could have been a flood at the time the story take place in

Read Genesis 6:1 and on i know you guys probably don't believe there is a God but He is coming soon the end is very near and a lot of people are more focused on what we seem is right not what the Bible says and our own understanding is not taking us anywhere, please read the Bible you don't know when your last day will be and you don't want to spend an eternity in hell just because you didn't want to believe. There is a lot of people who are probably regreting not listening to people who talk to them about God and our job as christians is talk to people about God because otherwise if we dont do it we can be condemned as well for not sharing the word of God! God bless you all!!!☺️

Daniz G90 Christianity was made up by man darling.

@@danizg9081 If you read the bible tell me what month the ark ran a ground in the mountains of Ararat and the waters abated ?

@@mstawse2966 Yes the ark exhibit creates more atheist than Christians , The English is misleading as well . Even if it did have an original source it was viewed by the people living then .

Savage rabbit Life NO WAY

Was it crowded it few people?

Are you sure it is a piece of silliness? Really? You won't know the truth from Bette Midler or La Vegas.

@@raywinsor3948 ??

@@raywinsor3948 Yes, it is. The NOAH' story was lifted-almost verbatim-from the Epic of Gilgamesh. The EXACT same. Raven and dove stories. So do they have the rafts and lifeboats the wombats, kangaroos and platypus obviously needed to get to now-ocean surrouded australia? And how did Fatther Noah know which beasts were 'unclean' when dietary laws wre not given till Moses?? So without any other people on Earth Noah's grand-kids each married their 1st cousins (also forbidden in Leviticus)? You do realize that after four generations of this ...sorry. My mistake. I am obviously dealing withba direct descendant.

An expedition found the remains of a wooden structure on the slopes of Mt Ararat under the ice. It's on You Tube. Whatever it turns out to be it does not change the impossibility of the Noah's Ark tale ever happening in the world I've lived in for 70 years. You know, the real world governed by Natural Laws and taught in science classes?

Check out the history. Several have claimed to have seen the Ark. If \god created the world, it is no problem to conceal that Ark until He wants to reveal it to the world at Christ's Second Coming in judgment.

It’s supposed to be on the top of Mt Ararat somewhere. Of course the wood would be long decayed

I can't wait to go see this replica! I love Jesus so much and His return is coming soon!

A baby T. rex yes

You want to give it a test?

Soon enough my friend.

Right. And we keep wondering how Moscow Cocaine Mitch keep getting re-elected. The same people that think a replica of a fictitious ark sound like a good idea.

It wouldn't float in the ocean for any longer than a minute before it broke apart.

Colin12475 that’s because it’s a museum lol they used the measurements in the Bible if you have been they have a section where they show what wood they used to make it stay in water

you kniw the ark never exiated buddy ?

A cubit is 18 inches

That is a very interesting point.

since they need tourism dollars, they probably took creative licence to make it look more like a boat, as if all they made, was a big wooden box, i doubt anyone would visit it.

If they made a wooden brick, people who don't know much about it would probably be confused because they would think it's supposed to be a boat and not a brick

The sheer size of a giant wood brick would amaze me since its dimensions specified in the bible were so enormously magnificent

Oh absolutely. They are actually using the same technology as captain hook!

Pretty fucked up that both this and the creation museum has so much aimed at children. Feels really icky.

@@kasperpedersen1527 Yes. And just imagine that you take your children there and they ask how babies were still born afterwards and you'd have to say that people "married" their cousins.

Death is a reality that all must face life is death death is life

@@haveaniceday5693 I don't have a problem with children knowing that people die. I do have a problem with telling children a story that is basically about a genocide. I also have a problem with it when people who literally believe in that genocide approve of it.

@@spike1670 Hi Spike, my answer is yes, I do feel bad when a murderer is put to death, even based on undeniable proof, even the kind we would never have in practice. I believe that murderers belong in prison, some perhaps for life. They should not be killed. If we kill murderers, we become murderers ourselves. And if you believe Noah's story literally, then God committed genocide on everybody but Noah's family, including children of all ages. That's not a glass is half full perspective, it's the literal truth. The reason this exhibit bothers me so much is not that it teaches nonsense. What bothers me is exactly what I see you doing here: you're defending mass murder at a genocidal level and worship the deity who committed that genocide. And that terrifies me. If you defend genocide, you are no better than the one who committed it. Please stop doing that and hold yourself to a higher moral standard.

Yep, $100 million could have helped a lot of poor people, but what did Jesus know with all that "sell your stuff, give it to the poor, and follow me"?

And what have u done to help the poor?

This argument is so old and boring. So, only religious people (christians) are limited to only giving money to the poor? They aren’t allowed to create things or invest in other activities because... reasons? You know, religious organizations still distribute massively more charity than any other entity, save perhaps for some governments. So, to demand that all money in the hands of christian evangelicals or other religious folks needs to be put to the poor is narrow-minded and lazy thinking.

@@HoudiniVictim There are lots of religions that aren't Christianity which also promote a selfless lifestyle. Defending this gross misuse of capital is absurd.

Patrick Spoon maybe so, but not for the reason you seem to espouse. This Ark museum (in my opinion) is a tone deaf, ridiculous waste of resources on something that is not of enough importance to justify the massive investment that was required. But I am a catholic who doesn’t think it is all that crucial whether one believes the Ark story is literal or a parable. However, I really dislike it when folks tell others what they ought to do with their resources. Even when Judas scolded the other disciples for “wasting” a jar of perfume (worth a year’s wages) on Jesus’ feet, Jesus even replied “The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me,” indicating that it is reasonable in certain cases to use resources for good causes not necessarily focused on the poor. There are plenty of legit reason to criticize the monstrosity that is this Ark attraction- not using the money to support the poor is not one of them, in my opinion.

It is not a ship its a building try to get a glimpse of the other side.

@Graham Rathbone YOU are fantasy and meaningless.

@Graham Rathbone Not crying because God doesn't believe in you either.

@Graham Rathbone Your reality is knowing you'll never see any deceased loved ones again.

@Graham Rathbone What's the matter? You can't have it both ways. Either you believe or you don't. I choose to believe and that antagonizes you to name calling. You don't seem sure of the choice you make. If you're certain of your disbelief in God and I'm a fool, you shouldn't be so unsettled by my personal spiritual beliefs. You follow your heart, I will follow mine.

How much to get in?