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Journey Through the Ark Encounter
Step back in time and explore one of the best-known biblical events at the Ark Encounter!
Take an amazing tour through he pages of this book as the world's true history is shared through unique, world-class exhibits. Experience the reality of Noah’s Ark, an immense wooden ship built to biblical dimensions to survive the violent forces of the global Flood. See common-sense solutions that would have enabled eight people to care for the animals. Discover the Ark’s remarkable animal kinds, based on a multi-year study of both living and extinct creatures.
Now experience a special overview of the 120,000-square foot Ark Encounter that
Far from being a fairy tale of a myth, the Ark Encounter challenges believers to realize that the Book of Genesis accurately records the history of real events. Every inch of this timber-framed structure challenges the secular attacks on Scripture. Featuring designs based on clues from ancient cultures, the Ark Encounter brings the biblical account to life and shows that humanity does have its roots in the courageous, faithful family that trusted God.
Take an amazing tour through he pages of this book as the world's true history is shared through unique, world-class exhibits. Experience the reality of Noah’s Ark, an immense wooden ship built to biblical dimensions to survive the violent forces of the global Flood. See common-sense solutions that would have enabled eight people to care for the animals. Discover the Ark’s remarkable animal kinds, based on a multi-year study of both living and extinct creatures.
Now experience a special overview of the 120,000-square foot Ark Encounter that
Far from being a fairy tale of a myth, the Ark Encounter challenges believers to realize that the Book of Genesis accurately records the history of real events. Every inch of this timber-framed structure challenges the secular attacks on Scripture. Featuring designs based on clues from ancient cultures, the Ark Encounter brings the biblical account to life and shows that humanity does have its roots in the courageous, faithful family that trusted God.
96 pages, Hardcover
Published June 21, 2017
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September 16, 2024
A wonderfully detailed book with all kinds of pictures and facts about the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky. My husband and I have been to the ark twice, and this past time we went it was way more crowded than usual so there were quite a few exhibits we missed. This book, however, filled in all the blanks and showcases EVERYTHING. It shows every attraction and exhibit (both inside and outside the ark), as well as details of what this ark was made out of and some other creative decisions that were made when building this life-size replica.
This is perfect to show family and friends everything you got to see and learn at the ark! It’s also fun to have to reminisce on the sheer beauty of it.
This is perfect to show family and friends everything you got to see and learn at the ark! It’s also fun to have to reminisce on the sheer beauty of it.
December 31, 2019
Beautiful pictures with a walk through of the encounter.
February 17, 2020
My sister-in-law grew up in a fairly conservative Christian family and, having had some negative experiences as a kid, has no desire to visit the nearby Creation Museum with her son, my nephew, under any circumstances. I grew up in a more agnostic/nominally Christian home, though, and I don't have strong feelings about Ken Ham and his museum, or its sister site, the Ark Encounter.
"Journey" is a solid objet d'art that shows how the makers of the replica Ark used the details provided in the Old Testament's story of the Flood to create a faithful facsimile of the ship spoken of in the Good Book, which, according to some historians, is an accretion of earlier Babylonian myths (see Atra-Hasis and the more widely known Gilgamesh saga for examples).
In addition to the reconstructed Ark itself (built in the Bible of "gopherwood" whose modern variant we can only guess at), the book features interactive displays and those animatronic Biblical Figures who have a preset list of responses programmed into their hardware for any questions the kids and adults visiting the facility might have. I remember encountering a couple of these in the Creation Museum and being struck, especially by the Methuselah, by how lifelike the thing was. It's certainly more sophisticated than something from Madame Tussaud's, but be careful walking up to the thing in the dimly-lit chambers where they appear to be real people. It's true uncanny valley stuff, as the sociologist Bernadette C. Barton notes in her study, "Pray the Gay Away," about the lives of Bible Belt gays.
It goes without saying that the book itself and the experience upon which it is based (located in Williamstown, Kentucky) will have different effects on different people. Young Earth believers will find both the exhibit and this book most edifying, with those of a more Menckian no doubt finding it to be a monument to Boobus Americanus's limitless depths of credulity.
As for whether or not yours truly will ever make the trip in person, and behold the Ark in situ, maybe in the future. For now, though, the book and the virtual tour will suffice. This book can be read as a companion piece to "Noah's Ark: Why it Worked." Recommended.
"Journey" is a solid objet d'art that shows how the makers of the replica Ark used the details provided in the Old Testament's story of the Flood to create a faithful facsimile of the ship spoken of in the Good Book, which, according to some historians, is an accretion of earlier Babylonian myths (see Atra-Hasis and the more widely known Gilgamesh saga for examples).
In addition to the reconstructed Ark itself (built in the Bible of "gopherwood" whose modern variant we can only guess at), the book features interactive displays and those animatronic Biblical Figures who have a preset list of responses programmed into their hardware for any questions the kids and adults visiting the facility might have. I remember encountering a couple of these in the Creation Museum and being struck, especially by the Methuselah, by how lifelike the thing was. It's certainly more sophisticated than something from Madame Tussaud's, but be careful walking up to the thing in the dimly-lit chambers where they appear to be real people. It's true uncanny valley stuff, as the sociologist Bernadette C. Barton notes in her study, "Pray the Gay Away," about the lives of Bible Belt gays.
It goes without saying that the book itself and the experience upon which it is based (located in Williamstown, Kentucky) will have different effects on different people. Young Earth believers will find both the exhibit and this book most edifying, with those of a more Menckian no doubt finding it to be a monument to Boobus Americanus's limitless depths of credulity.
As for whether or not yours truly will ever make the trip in person, and behold the Ark in situ, maybe in the future. For now, though, the book and the virtual tour will suffice. This book can be read as a companion piece to "Noah's Ark: Why it Worked." Recommended.
March 1, 2021
Written as a guide through Kentucky's life-size replica of the biblical ark. It looks like an awesome place to visit to learn all about the life and times of Noah. The organization clearly considered many things about the reality of the biblical story and laid out what it possibly was like. I really appreciate this kind of living history. Hope I can visit in real someday.
March 30, 2021
After exploring Ark Encounter as a family, this book was the perfect memoir of our experience. Will love having it to reference for years to come. The pictures are beautiful and really capture the encounter. The recap of each area is concise and informative. Makes a great coffee table book, too, as it is a nice size.
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June 14, 2019Fabulous book about the biblical ark and its remaking. A colourful picture book showing the live size ark built in the USA. a must go see.
November 4, 2020
If you cannot get to the Ark encounter this is your next best thing.
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