Ken Ham Says 'Ark Encounter' to be Completed by 2016

Ken Ham, CEO and president of the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, recently announced that the life-size Noah's Ark project is set to be completed in 2016 despite "naysayers" and an "enormous amount of false information."

The project, known as the Ark Encounter, is reportedly being built in Williamstown, Kentucky by a nonprofit group owned by Answers in Genesis. The ark is meant to be a lifesize replica of the same wooden ark used by Noah in the Book of Genesis, and will include various historical attractions for visitors.

Ham announced via Facebook this week that the Ark Encounter is slated for completion in 2016.

"Despite all the naysayers, and the enormous amount of false information certain people and organizations have spread about this project — it is moving ahead nicely toward the opening in 2016. We just praise the Lord for this," Ham said in his Facebook message, posted Thursday.

Ham also shared photos of the construction site where the ark will be built.

The Ark Encounter's website describes the project as a "historically themed attraction."

"The Ark Encounter is a one-of-a-kind historically themed attraction. In an entertaining, educational, and immersive way, it presents a number of historical events centered on a full-size, all-wood Ark, which should become the largest timber-frame structure in the USA," the website states.

"Additional future phases for the attraction include a Walled City, the Tower of Babel, a first-century Middle Eastern village, a journey in history from Abraham to the parting of the Red Sea, a walk-through aviary, an expanded large petting zoo, and so on," the website adds.