- Did you ever wonder if Noah's Ark could

really have been big enough to keep all

those animals safe fromthe biblical flood?

As Paul Strand now reports from Kentucky,

standing next to an actualaccurate reproduction

of the Ark may causeany doubt to fall away.

- More than a millionpeople a year have flocked

to central Kentucky's ArkEncounter since it opened in 2016.

Sure you heard of Noah and the Ark

but you may have neverreally been impressed

by the scale of what the man built

until you're standing byan exact replica of the Ark

then you realize why it tookhim a few decades to build it.

Not a couple, a few, quite a few.

The Ark Encounter's PatrickKanewske says the length,

width, and height are all accurate.

- It's the biblical proportions.

These are the dimensions from Genesis.

- [Paul] One amazing revelation,

expert nautical engineers brought in

to consult found as theystudied God's design

for the Ark that it wasabsolute perfection.

- It's the perfectdimensions for seaworthiness,

weight distribution, smoothness of ride.

- [Paul] When CBN Newsfirst visited the Ark

as it was being built,it was pretty much a huge

rectangle with hardly anything inside.

Now, the the 10-story-highvessel is crammed

with more than a hundredexhibits and stuffed

with animals in their flood-time cages.

A model showing inside the Ark shows

how they could have all fit.

- [Patrick] Could ithave actually been able

to house six to 7,000 animals?

We think so.

- [Paul] And tourists can ask Noah himself

about such things because versions

of his entire family areonboard and Noahs talks.

- It really wasn't hardto find the animals

since God brought them rightto me just as He said He would.

- [Paul] Noah's familyteaches a great lesson

in racial harmony, reminding visitors,

no matter their color, everyoneon Earth is a descendant

of Noah, all just one human race.

- [Patrick] And from these eight people

actually comes the restof us here in the world.

- [Paul] The exhibits show human history

from the time of perfectionin the Garden of Eden.

Then illustrate thedownward spiral as sin,

death, and destructioncame into the ancient

world bringing humanity finally to a time

of judgment and the biblical flood.

Ark Encounter also gives visitors the hope

that Jesus Christ's life, death,

and resurrection bring mankind.

The main door that Noah's family

and all the animals would have come

through is lit up on theinside with Christ's cross.

- It's a metaphor, if youwill, for salvation, safety.

- [Paul] A lesson youget while moving through

what Kanewske reveals is the largest

timber-frame structure in the world.

- Some people have equated it

to the Eighth Wonder of the Modern World.

- [Paul] Paul Strand, CBN News,

reporting from The ArkEncounter in Kentucky.