Stop MYTHING the BOAT!! Dan Lietha Cartoonist

A good laugh about this later, right? Yes, we will. Yeah, it's having a good laugh about it right now. Okay, all right. I'm ready now. How's now? Yes, take four. Okay. Okay, Dan Letha was born and raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

He received Christ as his Savior at the age of five or six, and he also started drawing at a young age. Dinosaurs and his love of animals played a key role in his motivation to start and keep drawing.

After high school, Dan attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in Dover, New Jersey, and graduated in 1987. He married his wife, Marsha, in 93, and two years later, illustrated a children's book called A is for Adam.

That project was for Answers in Genesis, and then he continued to do some volunteer work for them with illustrating for two years until he got hired full-time in 1997. While with Answers in Genesis, Dan illustrated thousands of speaker presentation slides, as well as many books and other publications and products.

Some of his most popular work came from his three cartoon features, Creation Wise, After Eden, and Let There Be Truth. After 23 years with Answers in Genesis, last November, Dan joined the ministry team of Reasons for Hope.

His new cartoon feature is Truth Jabs, and it's an editorial-style cartoon that brings a Christian worldview perspective to current events. Dan lives in Northern Kentucky with his wife, Marsha, and their 16-year-old daughter, and he wants you guys to know that content from tonight's presentation was used in developing the Fairytale Arc exhibit at the Answers in Genesis Arc Encounter, and tonight he's going to share some insights and a secret about that with us.

Okay, go ahead, Dan.

The Hidden Artwork and Dan Lietha’s Background

All right, thank you very much, Terri, and now I'm going to share my screen and make sure this thing works okay. There we go, and share. All right. Yay! All right, good. Well, thank you for inviting me to be your speaker for this evening, and tonight's talk is called Stop Mything the Boat, and this is a topic that's kind of near and dear to my heart, being a cartoonist and illustrator for so long, and working in the apologetics area for so long that, well, I'm going to give you a little behind the scenes of how this got started and everything, but we've been to the Arc Encounter many times, and like Terri said, there's a portion of the Arc Encounter that has a featured area that talks about fairytale arcs, and so you zoom in, you go into this place, and you see all these books that are illustrated with these little arcs, and there's a book right in the middle, this particular one, and that actually has my artwork on it.

Okay, so we're going to zoom in. A couple weeks before the Arc Encounter opened up, I got this request for this piece of artwork that I did for a magazine article that I produced on fairytale arcs in Answers Magazine, and so I altered the artwork a little bit before I gave it to them, and so I'm going to show you the secret hidden thing that's in this particular piece of artwork.

Okay, so there's the artwork right there, and I want you to pay particular attention to the elephant and the lion, okay? And so my wife's name and my daughter's name are hidden in this artwork, so I'm going to zoom in just a little bit.

I'm going to zoom in a lot. My daughter's name is hidden in the trunk of the elephant. If you can't see it, there it is right there, okay? All right, so everyone see it. All right, and then my wife's name is hidden on the lioness's jaw right there, Marcia, M-A-R-C-I-A.

So they always like when I hide their names in my artwork, and it's good to make brownie points with your wife when you do that. So I've been working for Reasons for Hope now since November, so I'm the new kid on the block, and I really don't have a ton of new artwork to show yet.

We've been creating a lot of videos and stuff because of the whole COVID thing, and so that's kind of limited the new artwork that I've been able to do, but I've done lots of illustration and lots of cartooning over the past 25 years in apologetics ministry, and here we are, the new Reasons for Hope family that I have, and I love these guys, and it's a blessing to be working for this ministry.

And here's just a few new pieces that I'll show off real quick here. Dr. John Whitcomb passed away recently, and so I did a piece of artwork that's a little bit different from my style and such, so honored him with that.

And then Ravi Zacharias, I did sort of the same type of thing with a different type of style, but wanted to honor these gentlemen with their lives, and we're grateful for their presence here on this earth while they were here.

And then this is my new cartoon, Truth Jabs, and so like I said, it's more of an editorial cartoon. I get to watch the news and hopefully put some perspective on things that are going on around us. And then I've also got some videos on YouTube and Facebook on instructing young artists how to draw, so you can draw like baby T-Rexes, and you can draw along with me, and then sometimes my Draw It and Know It feature is Bible verses, and so I'll draw out a Bible verse, and Proverbs 3, 5 says, trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding.

This gentleman here has been leaning on his own understanding, and he's been adjusting to lean on it because it keeps moving, and it's about to get him in some serious trouble. So it's fun to draw these things and to present the truth from God's Word, so that's been a real blessing.

And then coming up next week, I've got a drawing camp that you can look on the Reasons for Hope Facebook page and find out all about that. So pray for me as I'm doing this thing. It's a first time for me.

Why Noah’s Ark Is Usually Drawn Too Small

All right, so into the ARC topic. Like I said, I spent about 23 years with Answers in Genesis, and I've seen lots of speakers give lots of Noah's ARC talks. And here my good friend, Dr. Georgia Purdom, is giving a talk on Noah's ARC, and she's using some of my artwork in doing so.

Usually the speakers will talk just like a minute or so about that we shouldn't do these fairy tale ARCs. We shouldn't use those ARCs because they're not good. And so it's good that the speaker tells people that, but I can imagine sitting in the seats, a lot of people are so attached to them that they're kind of like, well, okay, that's your opinion.

I'm going to keep, you know, liking them. And so I thought, you know, I could probably flesh that argument out and help people really think through this issue. So like I said, this is probably going to be one of the most layman friendly talks that you've ever had, but I hope it makes you think, and I hope it makes you, that it challenges some things that you maybe have held on for years.

One thing that I do want to make sure that I am clear about is that there are a lot of parents, and there are a lot of grandparents that have given Noah's ARC books to children and grandchildren, and they're very well-meaning in doing so.

They want the next generations to love God's word, and they want them to be involved in thinking about biblical events. And so I've got a collection of Noah's ARC books in my collection. I collect the small ARCs, particularly for artistic reasons, and I open them up, and I see lots of them that have a signature in there similar to this, to my precious grandson, Eric, love grandma Emily.

And so I'm touched every time I see one of these things, but I want to, and if you've done that sort of thing, I'm not here to condemn or point fingers or anything, but again, I want to challenge some thinking about things that we see around us all the time.

These little ARCs are generally marketed to children, but they go beyond that. They're in Christian bookstores, and they're in churches and nurseries, and so we see them all the time, and so a lot of us just don't stop to think that there might not be something good about this.

And like I said, they're just all over the place. You guys are going to see more little ARCs tonight than you've probably seen in the last year and a half, but again, that's the point, that they're all over the place, all right?

So I did this cartoon a while back, and it shows a lady that just loves these cute little ARCs, and again, there might be some people in this audience that are kind of leaning in that direction, and I don't want you to feel like I'm calling you evil.

You're not. Again, this is something that we've equated with. It's biblical, and I just want to rethink that, particularly if you're an illustrator or you're a publisher, a book publisher. These things are very popular, and so some people are just making a paycheck or, you know, this is just the formula that works.

It's a successful thing, and again, I want to challenge that tonight. If you've ever looked at Ken Ham's book, Already Gone, which I would highly, highly recommend, it has some very startling statistics in it, and basically it says that if you take a church youth group and you line up all the kids, this is a conservative church youth group, and you take away two-thirds of those kids, that's actually what's going to happen when they get out into the real world.

They get out into college. They're going to start moving away from the church, and so when people see that, they often think it's college that's the problem. Actually, it's not. There's survey statistics in this book that tell us that kids have questions about the Bible, and those things aren't getting answered even in conservative churches, and so questions about Genesis, about Noah's flood, about creation, all those things are really hot topics, and kids aren't getting answers in the church.

At least they're not getting satisfying answers, and so when they get to college, then they can physically, you know, separate from the church because they're out of the home, and so the formative years, the young years, are very, very important for children to get answers and to be taught right, specifically about origins and Genesis.

All right, so 1 Peter 3 15 is very, very important to our ministries. In fact, it's where we get our ministry name. But in your hearts, honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks for you a reason for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and respect.

And so I really want to do that tonight. I don't want to make anyone feel bad, put fingers, and all that sort of thing, but again, I'm challenging ideas, hopefully with gentleness and respect. What is the most asked Noah's Ark question that I've heard over the past 25 years?

Well, there's a couple forms of it, and they go something like this. Either it's, how did all those animals fit on the Ark? That's a huge question that people have. Or sometimes it's not posed so nicely.

It's more like an accusation. There's no way all those animals could fit onto Noah's Ark. All right, so that capacity is an issue for a lot of people. And a lot of people will say, Dan, get a life. This isn't an important thing.

There's a lot more important things in life. But I'm going to say that this may be a symptom of a problem, and I think it's a piece of the puzzle. And so I think we can take this way of thinking about Noah's Ark and use it to apply to other things too.

So let's keep this in mind that this doesn't only work for Noah's Ark. This type of thinking about being careful about how we teach children and the importance of it applies to other things too. All right, so Noah's Ark is a huge vessel, humongous.

And we are blessed that God in his wisdom and grace and mercy actually told us in his word the size of the Ark. And so if you check in scripture, there's numbers there that tell us exactly how big Noah's Ark was.

And so... Dan? Yeah. All right, so play. Now do you have one.

Slide? Yes. Now it's the whole screen, so that's perfect. Okay. All right, so I'll start again. Robin, are you ready? Yes, please begin. I love that picture. That's so cute.

It is cute. Don't get too attached to it. All right, so the question is, if the Bible is so clear about Noah's Ark, why do we see so many small arks around us? And so that's a question that I want you to ask yourself.

What is the reason for this? And I'm going to reveal my answer at the end of the talk. All right, so it has something to do with children. It has something to do with the ages of children. And so again, these small arks are marketed to children.

But yet, think about it. Disaster movies are very popular these days, and so we get a little taste of what a disaster would be like. And an end-of-the-world disaster happened back in the Genesis times.

And so this was not a pleasant type of thing. This was the world ending. This was thousands, millions of people perhaps dying. Most of the animals on the surface of the earth dying. People fighting for their lives, watching this ark float by that they should have been on, but they weren't.

And the waters are rising up, and horrible terror, just tragic, okay? So not a very good time at all. And yet, if we were to make a movie out of that and really reflect what was going on, this sin-cursed world that God decided to wipe out, and then the horror of the judgment of God coming down on that world, it would at least be R-rated as a movie, and probably even worse if we really wanted to reflect all the things that happened there.

So the problem is, how do you take a story that's horrible like that, and how do you distill that down to something of a G-rating? And then the challenge there is, how do you be true to Scripture? How do you stay true to what you're supposed to communicate about that biblical event?

All right, so here's some encouragement from Psalms, because we are supposed to communicate those things to the next generation. Psalm 78, two through four says, I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings from old, from of old, things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.

We will not hide them from their children, but tell them to the coming generation. The glorious deeds of the Lord and his might, and the wonders that he has done. So God wants us to take the things that are good, and the things that are maybe harder to communicate, to hear, and he wants us to communicate those to the next generation.

And so we're to ask ourselves continually as we're teaching, are we being true to Scripture? That's my encouragement for you tonight. James 3 .1, I get so nervous, or this verse just makes me sit up, because there's many of us that are teachers.

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that those who teach will be judged with greater strictness. So as we're teaching children especially, these things, we're to be very, very careful with how we do that, and honor God's Word as we're doing so.

So keep asking ourselves, are we being true to Scripture? So if we're going to communicate about Noah's Ark in the flood, what elements should we be communicating to be faithful to Scripture? Well, it's an account of man, sin, sinful man.

God saw man's sin. God being a righteous God, judged man's sin. There was a flood that he sent to judge that sin, but there was a warning that went out, and there was a righteous man named Noah, and he found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

Noah obeyed. There was a large vessel that God instructed him how to build. There was a lot of animals that went on this ark, so that's part of the account. Noah's family went on this large vessel. They were saved from the flood and from God's judgment, and then they had a new beginning after they got off, and then there was a rainbow promise.

And so those, I think, are very key elements to the account. On the flip side, though, what is the world teaching? By and large, a lot of the books that I've collected talk about Noah built an ark. They don't give a reason, some of them.

God sent a flood. Oh no, cute animals and a fun boat ride. And that's really how you can sum up the majority of the books that have been produced for children that are supposed to communicate about Noah's flood to the young ones.

And so the problem is we've taken this, you know, horrible story, well, horrible historical account, okay? I try not to use the word story. And we've distilled it down into a fairy tale. We've taken all the necessary needed things out about God, and we've turned it into this feel-good, you know, makes-you-smile type of thing.

And that's not what happened at all. Not that we're trying to scare children, but we've got to communicate important things. So again, we need to ask ourselves, are we being true to Scripture? So we look at Scripture, and we see the real numbers that God has given to us.

And, you know, as biblical creationists in the book of Genesis, we're kind of, you know, known for sticking to the numbers, and we're going to talk about that in a little bit, right? So those numbers are very, very important.

So the rules for Christians really, I think, should be that we need to honor God in giving us those numbers when we illustrate Noah's Ark. On the flip side, what does the world do? What are their rules?

Pretty much, it doesn't matter. We don't care what the Bible says, we're going to do what we want to do. And so I have some samples here that, if you think I'm being a little, you know, flippant about that, you can find Noah's Ark in any shape and size.

You can find it, it seems like it's an artist's challenge to stuff the Ark full, as full of animals as you possibly can. And so in a submarine, really? So these people aren't really even trying. I don't think they even know, maybe haven't even cracked the Bible.

So some people are on that end of the scale. But again, far too many of the Arks are small and cute, and I don't think they're being faithful to the account. Now, I was in a bookstore the other day, and I want to tell you about a book that I found.

But again, in Genesis chapter 1, we find out six days. Six days of creation. Biblical creationists, six 24-hour days, right? So that's what we're sticking to, and anyone tells us anything different, and we get a little, you know, into that.

Exodus, six days. So God's scripture is clear, six days. Here's a book that I saw in the bookstore, and it's marketed to very, very little children. Look at the numbers on the bottom. My first 4 .54 billion years.

The earth. So we're teaching little, little, little kids those big numbers. As biblical creationists, are we, you know, getting a little excited about that? Yeah, I did when I saw that book. I thought that's not right, and I feel bad about that book being in existence.

Okay, so I got a little excited about that. When we see these books, and they don't reflect biblical numbers either, do we get a little excited about that? That's just the challenge I'm throwing out there for you.

All right, so there's problems ahead when we commit to numbers that don't agree with what God said, and we kind of conform to what the world's doing. And a lot of people will tell me, come on, Dan, they're just children.

Lighten up. All right, well, let's think about that. What's one of the first things that we teach children when they're growing up? The concept of big and small. And there are plenty of books on the market that do a really good job of teaching little, little children the concept of big and small.

Very, very important. And you know, there's other books that children like me still, they get my attention even more because they deal with dinosaurs. I love dinosaurs. Dinosaurs, a lot of them are huge.

And that's part of the magic of dinosaurs that, you know, little children will imagine these gigantic creatures, love massive, gigantic dinosaurs. And these books show them as massive, giant dinosaurs.

So why am I bringing this up? Well, think about it. Dinosaurs, kids love dinosaurs. They love big dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are allowed to be big. So why isn't Noah's Ark granted the same type of rules? Why is a giant boat always constrained to be small for children?

And we teach them, Noah's Ark was small, yet dinosaurs are large. Okay, those little Ark books need to go away. That's my bottom line. All right. So think about this too. And I've done a lot of research in this.

What is the second most popular large ship in history? Now, if I could have everyone raise their hands and give me the answer, I think I would be able to say that on the tip of your tongue right now is a ship called the Titanic, right?

We've been to the Titanic Museum down in the Pigeon Forge area. Fantastic place. Please go if you are in the area. But I will tell you that I've looked at lots of children's books about the Titanic. And I have yet to see one book that doesn't show the Titanic as massive and huge, even when it's taught to little children.

So why is the Titanic allowed to be large? But Noah's Ark, it's got to be small. What's the solution to the mystery? Some people will say, well, you're against cartoons, Dan, because it's the cartoons that are showing Noah's Ark is small.

Well, no. One, I'm a cartoonist. I love cartoons. And two, there are plenty of books that show the Titanic as massive, such as this one right here, but yet that's a very cartoony style. And so that's not the solution either.

Well, some people will say, well, let's keep the small arks for the little kids that don't know any different. And then as they grow older and older, we'll make the arks bigger and bigger. And that might seem like a solution, but actually it's not.

Because again, those little arks are focused and they're marketed with all the marketing might to get those little kids to play with them and love them and enjoy them. And just as a little side note here, I went to a Christian bookstore a couple of years ago and I did a little challenge for myself.

I wanted to see how many Noah's Ark books I could find in 15 minutes. These are the books that I found in 15 minutes. I didn't find any ones with large arks in them. They were all small. So that was really, really a sad time, but it was a very eye-opening exercise for me.

But see these little arks that are marketed to these little children aren't just marketed to little children anymore. A lot of people grew up with them. And so that affection remains with you as an adult.

And so you've kind of gained this flavor as a child. And now you see these plates and teapots and lamps and these aren't for little children and snow globes and Christmas tree ornaments and jewelry and even fine art paintings.

And there's some fine artists that make a large part of their living off of making these Noah's Ark paintings for adults. And you know, some of them might end up in children's rooms, but still these are adults making a living off of making a fairy tale out of the account of Noah's flood.

So lots of things that are made for adults. You can go to a Goodwill or whatever and you can just pull Noah's Ark off the shelves. Again, these aren't for little children. Music boxes and all kinds of stuff.

Proverbs 22 .6. Think about it. Train up a child in the way he should go. And when he is old, he will not depart from it. You've heard that. Sadly, I think that that can work the other way around too.

Train up a child in the way he should not go. And he may not depart from that. So getting a good foundation as a young child is a very, very important thing. You can find Noah's Ark merchandise with pretty much anything, right?

There's all kinds of products with Noah's Ark on them that have no connection to anything that's trying to defend scripture or communicate the truth of scripture. It's just a fun thing. Slot machines.

So lots of crazy stuff. When I was working with Answers in Genesis and the Ark Encounter was being built, we heard an accusation. And thinking about the products that I've just shown you, I think it would be safe to say that there's millions and millions of dollars spent on manufacturing those items.

And there's millions and millions of dollars being spent on purchasing these items going in your homes. And so there's a lot of money involved here. And when the Ark Encounter was being built, a lot of people would come to us and they would say, it's a waste of money to spend millions of dollars on the Ark Encounter.

You should spend it on the poor. You know, I appreciate people that have a compassion for those that don't have money and they need things. You know, there's a lot of people that do. And so this argument comes from a well-intentioned, you know, type of thinking.

But my response to it was, it's a waste of money to spend millions of dollars on fairytale arks. We should be spending it on sharing the gospel. And so that's what Noah's Ark Encounter does. You go to the Ark, you find out that it's a picture of salvation.

You find out about the God that is the author of salvation and man's sin and judgment and all those things at the Ark Encounter. So I think it's a very worthwhile place to go to. And it's helping people find their way to heaven.

So in a large way, too, I think it's helping change the perspective of people that have seen these little arks. And now they've got burned into their memory, this massive ship that might cause those little arks to look a little funny now and out of place, which I really, really hope happens because again, Noah's Ark was a massive, massive vessel.

And so you start to think these little arks, they don't, they wouldn't work real well. And so that's the type of image that I want people, I want you to be challenged with this image right here and think about that the next time you see these little storybooks with these little arks.

All right, so I'm going to talk about some confusion, too, when you commit to the little images where we're getting into bad water. Here's a book that's one of my favorites in my collection. It says, How Big Was Noah's Ark?

So I love the title. Look at that image. What's the answer going to be? So let's open up the book. We find out that now these are metrics. So I'm just going to assume that those are the right numbers.

So we're starting good, we got good numbers. But then you back the camera up and you think, oh, they messed it up. And you see someone like me that's visual. I will look at the image. And that's what sticks.

I can look at the numbers, how many people are gifted enough that their brain can visualize what those numbers mean. And then they would realize what it image there. But for me, given a choice, and I think for most children, too, they're walking away with that image.

So how big was Noah's Ark? That's what's in their mind. But it gets more interesting, and it gets kind of worse in the rest of the book. Because just a few pages later, it says, How Big Was Goliath? And if you read the text there, it says that Goliath was over nine feet tall.

Okay, so it gives Goliath's numbers, but it shows a giant man, and he's allowed to be a giant. So I thought, well, what if I took Photoshop, and I did a little Photoshop magic, and I was consistent with what they just did to Noah's Ark?

What would that look like? And there you go. All right. So if you were at the store, and you're buying something for your grandchild or your child, and you saw them do that to Goliath, would that be a book that you would buy?

Probably not, because you know that they're misteaching about Goliath. But again, for so many of us, Noah's Ark just flies right by, and we like it, and we get it. Why do we do that? And then here's part of the thinking, too, I think, especially for artists.

We need to keep the Ark unique. The Ark is unique, and we need to treat it that way. So follow along with me. Here's some images of a cartoon distorted, no, these are highly distorted, okay, cartoon distorted bus, a plane, a boat, and then Noah's Ark.

You remember that game at Sesame Street, one of these things is not like the other? One of these things here is not like the other, and of course, it's Noah's Ark. So which one of these items would be a stumbling block if it were portrayed as a distorted cartoon image?

Well, let's think about that. Would a distorted cartoon image of a bus be a stumbling block for somebody? No, because we've seen thousands and thousands of school buses in real life, so you can distort the school buses all you want.

It's not going to change my perspective about what a real school bus is. The same for the plane, the same for the boat, the big ship, but for Noah's Ark, we don't have the real one, and so we're not treated to common instances of seeing that image, but we see the small ones.

And so the Ark encounter, that makes it all the more exciting for me, because now people are getting to see a realistic image of what the Ark is, and hopefully that image of the Ark will become their default image, the one that when they hear Noah's Ark, they're pointing in their mind to that image right there.

All right, but sadly, for every one of those large Ark, biblical-sized Arks that are in our world, if you go on Google search and you look for Arks, you'll find hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. It's not even close of these little little Arks, and so I'm afraid that so many children, that's their default image about what Noah's Ark is, and that's what they grew up with.

So again, the Ark encounter, highly recommend that you go there. Take your children, take your grandchildren, have them look at that giant vessel and imprint that in their minds about what the Ark really was.

Again, it's not wrong, it's not a stumbling block to have cartoony rockets, because we see rockets in the news a lot, and so there's no question there about what those things really are. All right, here's one that maybe a lot of people haven't thought about.

Why should the church help atheists mock scripture? Do you realize that's what we're doing when we have those little Arks, and we embrace them, and we have them produced so often in our culture? Atheists love fairy tale Arks.

Now that's, there's a lot to think about with that thought, and so you see mocking of creationists with small Arks a lot. There have been protests at the Ark with atheists holding up these little fairy tale Ark signs, and this particular one says, this fable won't float.

We know this never, this isn't real, this never happened, and you know what? I heartily agree with that atheist. It's not often that I agree with atheists, but that one I'm saying, amen, yes, preach it, that never happened, that fable won't float, and you know what the fallacy there is?

The fallacy there is, that's a straw man fallacy. They don't want to show the real Ark during their protest, because that's realistic, that Ark works, but they'll show a cartoon, shrunk down, impossible Ark, and then they'll criticize that, and they'll make their argument against that.

It's like this wrestler here, this, well it's Bill Maher, an atheist, saying you creationists are just wimps and easy to defeat, but he's not wrestling an atheist or a creationist, he's wrestling a straw man, which is just, anybody could beat that, so that's what the straw man argument is, and those little Arks are straw man arguments for the atheists, and sadly a lot of people fall for them, and a lot of people get embarrassed, yeah, that's what I believe, well, you know, stand up against them, point out that's not the Ark that I believe in, and so many times you see articles online, and they're using the little Arks to get in the people's minds, it's a fairy tale, it's not real, they're cute, and sometimes my stuff gets misused too, and I cringe a little bit when I see people taking artwork from creationist websites, and then using it for other purposes, so you get a little thick skin in my business after a while from seeing that so much, and then atheists will take those cute Ark images and mix it with horrible mockery of scripture, and that's what's happened here, they know that the Ark account, the flood account, is horrible, death and judgment and all that sort of stuff, and yet there's so many children's books that try to make it look cute, and so they're having a go at the creationists here with this book, so again I ask the question, why so small, why do we often see Noah's Ark just shrunk down into these little boats with just a handful of animals on it that would never survive anything near a storm, much less a worldwide flood, all right, well here's the answer, do you have your guesses as to what I'm going to say, well the answer is, the main reason I think is, it's the animals, it's really all about the animals, you see the size of Noah's Ark is huge, the animals that went on Noah's Ark, and there are many animals, they're all small compared to the Ark, and so this image right here I think is pretty much how, if you want to show the animals and you have to show the Ark at the same time, this is kind of how you have to do it, because if you put the animals next to the Ark, the Ark just gets to be so big you can't see the whole thing, and so here's a picture of the Ark encounter, just a part of it, you see down at the bottom, there's people down there, and again if you showed animals next to those people, you can't show the whole Ark, and so I think people are just trying to, you know, I want the whole Ark, and I want some animals too, and so we're going to shrink it down so you can see both at the same time, so it's a solution that works, but the consequences are not good, and so we see that a lot, and that's the images that people are carrying around in their mind, that the Ark was small, and so again, good intentions sometimes lead to unfortunate circumstances, so again, if you want to say the animal, show the animals and the Ark at the same time, you have to move the animals closer to the camera and the Ark further away.

Genesis, Creation, and the Need for Accurate Biblical Numbers

Here's something else to think about. The flood account comes from the Book of Genesis. The Book of Genesis, by and large, to atheists and the world, is not a popular, well-loved book, because it talks about a different origin than your science books at school and that sort of stuff, and so people think it's outdated, people think it's a fairy tale, all that sort of stuff, but Noah's Ark is super popular, so how can the world embrace something so heartily as Noah's Ark, because it's from the Bible?

Well, think about this. Scripture says, For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded by water.