Quotes about Ken Ham
Using the shorter cubit (18 inches), Noah's ark would have been about: • 450 feet (137 meters) by 75 feet (22.9 meters) by 45 feet (13.7 meters) Whereas using the longer cubit of about 20.4 inches, Noah's ark would have been about: • 510 feet (155 meters) long by 85 feet (25.9 meters) by 51 feet (15.5 meters)
— Ken Ham
Using the maximums discussed, the Ark Encounter estimation is about 1,400 kinds. This is translated to about 6,700 individuals on the ark. This number maximizes the animals but should likely
— Ken Ham
Creationists hold to an Ice Age that was triggered by the Flood. The Flood occurred about 2348 b.c., which is about 4,300 years ago.1 The secularists' most recent ice age was supposedly about 10,000 years ago (by their dating system).
— Ken Ham
The first thing you will notice is that Simms' ark is much closer to the biblical proportions that were given: 300 by 50 by 30 cubits (Genesis 6:15). Mr. Simms simply squares them off. I'm surprised many illustrators and researchers today have failed to attain this basic information, considering it is given in the Scriptures. Instead, they proceed
— Ken Ham
While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.
— Ken Ham
More than a century later, Athanasius Kircher published his Arca Noë in 1675, with lavish illustrations depicting a rectangular ark of biblical proportions. Kircher ark depiction In 1707, a German Bible had an image of Noah's ark that also had been carefully considered. Famed Baptist commentator Dr. John Gill included it in his commentary on Genesis in 1748—63.4 The John Gill ark depiction
— Ken Ham
Therefore, during creation week when everything was good, there would be no need for any rebuking. If Psalm 104:6—9 were referring to creation week (specifically day 3), then why the rebuke in Psalm 104:7? This implies an imperfect, not very good creation. But if Psalm 104:6—9 is referring to the Flood, then of course a rebuke would exist in a fallen world where the judgment of water had overtaken the earth.
— Ken Ham
If we take ocean basins and bring them up and take mountain ranges and continents and bring them down to a level position, there is enough water to cover the earth 1.6 miles deep (2.57 km deep), so there is plenty of water on the earth for a global Flood. Yet there was only the need for the highest underwater peak during the Flood to be covered by 15 cubits (22.5 feet or ~6.8 meters based on the small cubit to 25.5 feet or ~7.8 meters based on the long cubit) per Genesis 7:20.
— Ken Ham
Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were made on day six, and people try to make fun of us for believing that dinosaurs lived with people, but there are a lot of animals living today that evolution says lived with dinosaurs.
— Ken Ham
according to the text, numbering the people was nearly a year-long process, and there is no clear indication that God had suspended the initial
— Ken Ham
What are the minimum figures for animals on the ark? Researcher Arthur Jones, writing in the Creation Research Society Quarterly in 1973, simply put these qualifications at a family level and did the numbers.4 He arrived at about 1,000 families (and equated this with kinds). This would be about 2,000 individuals taken on the ark.
— Ken Ham
Cudi is much lower in elevation, being about 6,800 feet high, so it would not have been so difficult to herd animals down the mountain. There would have been no problems with low oxygen levels, and this mountain is not a volcano that is resting upon the top of the mountains of Ararat (like volcanic Ararat is).
— Ken Ham