Hey, everybody. This is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the Heidi St. John podcast. Today, I am honored and thrilled to be here at the Ark Encounter with my friend Ken Ham.

Many of you know, Ken is the founder and CEO of Answers in Genesis. And we're going to be talking all things related to Genesis and the culture today. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

Thank you. and the culture today, stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

All right, you guys, so I'm going to jump right into this because I don't often get to podcast from the Ark Encounter.

Ken, welcome to the podcast.

Hey, it's great to be on with you again. It's wonderful to have... It's wonderful to have these. It's been millions of years. It's been millions of years. What is behind us out here? Because this is not my usual backdrop. No, it's not. And that is the biggest freestanding timber frame structure in the world. Wow. So it's Noah's Ark, 3.3 million board feet of timber, one and half times

a length of a football field, half the width of a football field. You stand seven stories

high at the midsection, 10 stories at the Bayer. You can walk through all three levels and there's

130 exhibits answering all sorts of questions about the Bible. And it's an incredible tourist attraction here in Northern Kentucky,

along with the Creation Museum, which is 45 minutes away.

And you can actually see people walking behind us here because we're doing this while it's open.

Yeah, it's wonderful. It's an awe-inspiring thing.

I remember the first time I came to the Ark encounter.

It takes your breath away.

The, just the scope of it and how large it is. It's very awe-inspiring. And to think Noah answered

God's call and built an arc like that. Yeah, it's interesting. There are times when I've actually

come across in one of the shuttle buses from the parking lot and the people in the shuttle bus. And as they come up around the hill there and then they see the arc for the first time, I remember one little boy, you hear him sort of gasp and then he says, wow, Noah could fit the animals on that. Yes, right. Because, you know, that's a big stumbling problem for a lot of people. How could Noah's Ark be true when he couldn't fit all the animals on board? That's right. And atheists have used that to actually try to create doubt in regard to God's word. That's why it's important to have answers. And that's what we do in the Ark encounter and the Creation Museum is give a lot of answers to the most asked questions today that are used

to create that doubt that leads to one belief. And you have people of all backgrounds, all religions,

the major world religion, atheists come through the Arach encounter. And it really is life-changing

for, because you're not making excuses for the word of God. You're saying, this is what the

word of God says, and it can stand on its own.

Well, you know, it's interesting. You know, Noah's Ark really is known all over the world because there are flood legends all over the world. On the third deck, we have a flood legends exhibit. And so people have heard of Noah's Ark. Actually, when you visit other countries, we had someone who did this, actually, they bought one of those model Noah's Harks from every country he visited,

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