Ark Encounter nest in them. Much of the wood used to build the Ark Encounter was sourced from renewable forests or trees infested by beetles. During construction, former President Jimmy Carter toured the Ark Encounter, accepting an invitation from LeRoy Troyer, president of the Troyer Group. Ark Encounter opened on July 7, 2016, a date (7/7) chosen to correspond with Genesis 7:7: "And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood." AiG also announced that, for the first 40 days and 40 nights of Ark Encounter's operation – an
Captain Noah and His Magical Ark Sunday morning leading out of ABC Sunday-morning cartoons and into the "Al Alberts Show". The show also featured four cartoon shorts per day during the week. These included Gumby, Popeye (the made for TV cartoons from the 1960s only), Porky Pig (pre-1940 and post-1947 episodes), and Bugs Bunny (post-1948 episodes). In 1975, when ABC began their morning show "Good Morning America", WPVI-TV opted to preempt that in favor of "Captain Noah and His Magical Ark." Starting in September 1976, WPVI began running the 7:00 a.m. hour of "Good Morning America" and scaled "Captain Noah" back to the 8:00 a.m. to