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Meet the man who’s re-creating Noah’s Ark
Today.MSNBC ^ | June 22, 2011 | By Michael Inbar

Posted on 06/22/2011 10:47:48 AM PDT by Bed_Zeppelin

While Noah will likely always remain the first name in arks, tourists are chomping at the bit to climb aboard “Johan’s Ark,” an ambitious re-creation of the biblical boat that’s attracting gawkers galore along a waterfront shipyard in Dordrecht, a city in the western Netherlands.

Dutch builder Johan Huibers is expected to complete work on the massive vessel sometime next month in what has been a staggeringly ambitious project to bring one of the best-known stories of the Bible to life. It’s taken three years of his life and $1.6 million out of his pocket, but Huibers, owner of a successful construction company in Holland, says the project is a dream come true — literally.

“I dreamed a part of Holland was flooded,” Huibers, 60, told Janet Shamlian in a report that aired on TODAY Wednesday. “Then, the next day I get the idea to build an ark of Noah.”

(Excerpt) Read more at today.msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackseaflood; catastrophism; creationism; creationist; current; godsgravesglyphs; holland; johanhuibers; johansark; lightofsevendays; netherlands; noahsark; schagen; thedutch; yec
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To: Responsibility2nd

Thanks for the pics and to the rest of you for the links and videos!

Moved out here to rural Maryland 17 years ago. Not far from here, off the freeway, there’s a sign indicating the recreation of Noah’s Ark. Zero progress has been made in all of that time. What an embarrassment!


21 posted on 06/22/2011 11:13:54 AM PDT by Bed_Zeppelin
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To: dfwgator

“so I spit on him!”

Gold.

Mr. Cosby became a strange sort of figure — so correct on demanding that the Black community police itself and create values in support of America and success, but so liberal in many many ways.

But isn’t it amazing that his material is still funny 40 years later? Most comedy today isn’t even funny 40 minutes later.


22 posted on 06/22/2011 11:17:57 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: freedumb2003

I still die laughing watching “Bill Cosby: Himself”, when he talks about going to the dentist.


23 posted on 06/22/2011 11:19:12 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Bed_Zeppelin

Man...that's a lot of work...

24 posted on 06/22/2011 11:19:29 AM PDT by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: BubbaJunebug

It doesn’t look like it will float.. huge boat and 1/2 inch thick planks on the outside?


25 posted on 06/22/2011 11:22:54 AM PDT by rokkitapps ( Hearings on healthcare waivers NOW! (If you agree make this your tagline))
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To: dfwgator
I still die laughing watching “Bill Cosby: Himself”, when he talks about going to the dentist.

RINSE!

26 posted on 06/22/2011 11:23:35 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
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To: freedumb2003

I have all the Cosby Albums on my Ipod. My 9-year old son loves listening to them. The Noah skit is his favorite as was mine when I was his age.


27 posted on 06/22/2011 11:24:39 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: freedumb2003

Still hilarious without being disgusting and vulgar.

I love the “Lone Ranger” bit.


28 posted on 06/22/2011 11:25:10 AM PDT by greatplains
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To: Puppage

That’s what I was going to mention. Beat me to it.


29 posted on 06/22/2011 11:25:48 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: dfwgator

I’m pretty sure a cubit is the measurement from your fingertips to your elbow.


30 posted on 06/22/2011 11:38:36 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Bed_Zeppelin; All
From the Bible in Genesis the Art is described to have NO windows on the sides, but only ONE window in the TOP of the roof of the Art. The builder is in ERROR with his windows on the horizontal sides, and too many windows, and there is NO window on TOP, which is prescribed in the Bible.

Some may ask why on TOP? Because GOD instructed Noah to LOOK UP to HIM in heaven for trust and praise, so GOD instructed Noah to build ONE window on TOP. Any other configuration is simply man's viewpoint horizontal platonic fashion, e.g., looking horizontal around, not up to GOD for trust and praise.

Some may simply say, oh, what's the difference...where the windows are located. Yeah, and those who have this viewpoint probably never look up to GOD for all their trust, like Noah did.

31 posted on 06/22/2011 11:54:34 AM PDT by bibletruth
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To: Bed_Zeppelin

“I dreamed a part of Holland was flooded,”

Parts of Holland are flooded?

That’s a wild dream.


32 posted on 06/22/2011 12:19:11 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: trumandogz
Yeah, and those who have this viewpoint probably never look up to GOD for all their trust, like Noah did.

Ri-i-i-ght!

33 posted on 06/22/2011 12:57:49 PM PDT by Misterioso (A liberal is a communist, but too stupid to realize it.)
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To: rokkitapps

From the photos, it is built atop steel barge.


34 posted on 06/22/2011 1:04:40 PM PDT by ThirdMate
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To: dfwgator
"I still die laughing watching “Bill Cosby: Himself”, when he talks about going to the dentist."

Me, too, when I think of having "My libbbbbbit in my labbbbbbit..."

35 posted on 06/22/2011 2:32:16 PM PDT by redhead (Don't bother to impeach the miserable SOB, ARREST him!)
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With modern power tools it took over 300 man-years of labor to build each of the Ark 'replicas'.

36 posted on 10/28/2018 11:18:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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