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从孩子们夏令营结束到新学期开学之间有一个半星期的空档，于是我和慕南姐妹决定一起带孩子们去看看传说中的诺亚方舟。
Noah’s Ark， 开放之际就迅速被朋友圈所刷屏，无论是主内还是主外的朋友们都纷纷表示，一定要去，会去看看，有机会要去，很想去。。。等等等等。
为什么这么火？
因为它经历了太多的批评与非议，最终凭借着坚定的信念，完整呈现给世人，挪亚方舟不仅仅是一座建筑，更是一个最有力的见证。
方舟公园离我们算不上太远，它位于Kentucky的Willamstown，距离芝加哥市区4小时，我们因为在北郊，所以需要5个半小时车程，加上休息，总共单程花了7个多小时。
我们周二中午出发，周三深夜回来。我负责开车，慕南负责祷告。
真的是很感谢神，我从来没有单独连续开过这么远的路，中途虽然吃饭加油稍作休息，但是接连两天的游完和驾驶，我居然没有感觉到累没有丝毫的睏乏，感谢神保守和看顾着我们的行程。
初到方舟的时候，我并不觉得震撼，外观上就是一个船型的建筑，除此之外，我看不到什么更多特别之处，我对这座人工建筑的热情完全来自于对建造者执著精神的感动。
可是，当我们进入到方舟里面的时候，我真的惊呆住了！
方舟按照圣经描写的尺寸来复制打造，长300腕尺，宽30腕尺，高50腕尺，全部主体结构没有用一根钉子！一根钉子都没有用！整整4层，全部是木匠活，137米长23米高，从底层贯穿到屋顶的支撑是巨型树木，所有的接合处都是木楔和木齿严丝合缝的结结实实咬合在一起。真是非常震撼，它不仅是世界上最大的木质结构建筑，它更是一座用虔诚的心摆上的敬拜。
方舟总耗资近亿美元，是AIG（answers in genesis）所兴建，创办人 ken Ham特意选择在7月7日这天对公众开放，以此呼应《创世纪》第7章7节所描述的挪亚进入方舟躲避洪水。挪亚方舟所要传递的是神的慈爱，怜悯和救恩。
Ken说，他希望看到数以百万计的游客参观方舟之后，能感受到大洪水提醒我们神施行审判，但神也为挪亚一家人预备救恩的计划，而对我们现代人来说，耶稣基督就是现代版的挪亚方舟 ，在耶稣里面有救恩，祂施行拯救。挪亚方舟所传递出的信息正是这世界所需要的，尤其在日渐黑暗的属灵文化中，这信息格外绽放出耀眼的光芒。
2010年当Ken 提出建造挪亚方舟的想法的时候，很多人都认为他疯了，遇到了很多反对与挫折，正如挪亚曾经面临的各种挑战，各种冷嘲热讽。有人说他是一个投机分子，也有人说他是打着宗教的名义去牟利。耗时，耗力，饱受争议和批评，工程也受到影响和滞后，差点就烂了尾，但是Ken从未想过放弃，一直祷告并坚持，他相信神会开道路，并且理性的与反圣经者用科学方法，从考古的角度，人类学和宗教的角度来展开辩论与探讨。
方舟里面有各种动物，再现了方舟的结构，动物栩栩如生，还有很多的化石展示和标本，生动而科学的回答进化者的质疑.
很多圣经中的经典场景被再现
这座方舟博物馆科学和历史的完美结合，非常有说服力
当我的眼光专注于建筑格局的时候，慕南的眼光被工程的浩大所吸引。
慕南说，这么大的工程！古代，各种机械化设备缺乏的限制，只有挪亚和他三个儿子建造，不仅要大，质量一定要过关，有一处不合格这船就白造了，全家和所有不会水的动物性命就会全丢。这工程一定是神启示给人的！
方舟博物馆里有关于换水，排气，排污，喂饲系统的动态展示，慕南非常惊叹船上的换气功能，透光功能，取水喂食功能，处理所有垃圾粪便功能，等等等等。。。这样的工程，凭一个没经历过船上生活的人是无法自己想象出来的！
慕南说，感谢神与我们一路同在，这是一次非常愉快的旅行，孩子们和我们俩都看到和思想到神对人的拯救和能力，难得我们有这么美好的经历！
谢谢收看！
Great question! But honestly, I don't know. :)
I found the below online article for you, and hopefully it can answer your questions.
https://biblescienceguy.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/were-mosquitoes-in-the-garden-of-eden/
Were Mosquitoes in the Garden of Eden?
After wiping dripping blood away, I thought more carefully about the question,
“Were mosquitoes in the Garden of Eden before Adam sinned?”
I concluded that they were in Eden, because Yahweh created mosquitoes just like everything else, and He finished His work of creation in six days.
And maybe Adam did not even name them, because insects are not in the category of creatures that the Bible says Adam named:
Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. (Genesis? ?2:19-20)??
But I think that in Eden mosquitoes were not the annoying pests that they are today, because when Yahweh finished His work of creation, He pronounced everything “Very good.”
God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. (Genesis? ?1:31)
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Mosquitoes — Adam’s Fault
So why are mosquitoes pests today? It is Adam’s fault.
After Adam sinned, Yahweh cursed all of creation. This curse physically changed many things. The ground no longer brought forth only good crops, but now weeds, thorns, and thistles proliferated. Childbirth for women became much more painful. Snakes no longer traveled upright but were condemned to go on their belly. (Genesis 3:14-19)
Yahweh also put enmity between men and snakes. Later after the Flood He changed the brains of animals so that they would fear humans (Genesis 3:15; 9:2).
Another change is that man and animals did not eat meat before the Fall; all were vegetarian. Only after Noah’s Flood did Yahweh authorize man to eat meat (Genesis 9:3).
Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food;” and it was so. (Genesis 1:29-30).
We know very little about what animals were like before Adam’s Fall. One thing we do know is that Creation has been severely distorted by God’s Curse as a result of Adam’s sin. (Romans 8:20-22) But nobody knows how much things changed compared to before the Fall. The full extent of the effects of the Fall and Yahweh’s subsequent curse is unknown.
Thus we have no certain information about what mosquitoes were like before the fall, but I suspect mosquitoes were changed from a benign insect into a pest when Yahweh cursed all of creation because of Adam’s sin. Before the Fall, mosquitoes were a beneficial part of Yahweh’s very good ecosystem. Since then they have become the World’s Most Dangerous Creature through transmitting deadly diseases such as malaria, encephalitis, yellow fever, and dengue fever.
Even today many mosquito species do not suck blood. They feed on plant nectar and are active in pollinating plants. Pollination was probably the function of the very good mosquitoes that Yahweh originally created.
Before the Fall, female mosquitoes probably got protein for their egg production from certain plants instead of from blood, just as vegetarians today get protein from a plant-based diet. For example, leghemoglobin is a protein similar to hemoglobin that’s found in plants such as soybean and alfalfa.
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Were Mosquitoes on the Ark?
Some people criticize Noah for letting the pair of mosquitoes off the Ark. If only Noah had smacked them, it would have saved untold agony for millions of Noah’s descendants.
But we don’t know whether mosquitoes were on the Ark. The Bible does not specifically say that mosquitoes were on the Ark. It says Noah took “animals and birds and everything that creeps on the ground.” (Genesis? ?7:8)
Mosquitoes could have survived the Flood in egg, larva, or pupa form either on the Ark or on floating vegetation mats outside the Ark.
I think it’s likely that mosquitoes plagued Noah and his sons and their work crews as they labored building the Ark. The increase in exhaled carbon dioxide, body heat, and perspiration due to their physical exertion would be key attractive factors for mosquitoes (see Mosquito: World’s Deadliest Creature). So I don’t think Noah would have been favorably disposed to voluntarily board mosquitoes on the Ark.
Thus we can’t really blame Noah for mosquito bites. We have to blame Adam.
One insect that probably was on the ark is the bee. But where did Noah keep the bees? In the archive of course. How could Noah see to take care of them? He used flood lights!