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06-01-2011, 07:13 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/27/world/europe/20110527ARK.html
Though there's little chance that rising sea levels -- a symptom of global warming -- would ever bring an inundation of biblical proportions to the Dutch coast, one man in the city of Dordrecht is building a modern-day ark anyway.
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Johan Huibers, 60, the successful owner of a big construction company, has spent the last few years building an ark, identical in size to the one Noah is said to have constructed in the book of Genesis.
The new ark is 300 cubits in length, or 450 feet; 30 cubits high, or about three stories; and 50 cubits, or 75 feet, wide. Mr. Huibers is building the ark out of Swedish pine because some versions of the Bible suggest God ordered Noah to use “resin wood,” which Mr. Huibers says is pine.
For his part, Mr. Huibers sees a role for the ark far beyond Dordrecht. He has sent a letter to the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, requesting permission to bring the ark there for the Olympic Games next summer. Investors from Texas have visited, urging him to bring the ark to Galveston.
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Though there's little chance that rising sea levels -- a symptom of global warming -- would ever bring an inundation of biblical proportions to the Dutch coast, one man in the city of Dordrecht is building a modern-day ark anyway.
Watch the pictures
Johan Huibers, 60, the successful owner of a big construction company, has spent the last few years building an ark, identical in size to the one Noah is said to have constructed in the book of Genesis.
The new ark is 300 cubits in length, or 450 feet; 30 cubits high, or about three stories; and 50 cubits, or 75 feet, wide. Mr. Huibers is building the ark out of Swedish pine because some versions of the Bible suggest God ordered Noah to use “resin wood,” which Mr. Huibers says is pine.
For his part, Mr. Huibers sees a role for the ark far beyond Dordrecht. He has sent a letter to the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, requesting permission to bring the ark there for the Olympic Games next summer. Investors from Texas have visited, urging him to bring the ark to Galveston.
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