The Pharaoh's Ark?

Today I ran into an encounter of my own with the latest project by the "Answers In Genesis" foundation run by the dominionist Ken Ham. It's called the Ark Encounter. This group is building a "life-size ark" from the Genesis story of Noah. (Notably not the Book of Jubilees version of Noah, I guess since it's apocryphal to Ham's tradition that's a no-no. Besides, that Noah is commanded by God to not consume the flesh of animals.)

I just have one question, specifically about the art direction. In the "big" and "little" Genesis stories, Noah only takes his immediate family with him, and it isn't that many people. And yet here's this picture:

I count over twenty individuals... Even in the apocryphal version there aren't that many people on the ark. See, this looks to me like an Egyptian pharaoh's use of slaves to build his tomb. I think that's a little bit of not paying attention to the source material, and since that's the rallying cry of this group, it's just a tad disingenuous.

Color me shocked. Humans lie with images and words, trying to make their view appealing to others? Huh.

Daren Aronofsky caught a lot of shit about "Noah", especially from fundamentalists. I'm willing to bet that most of them (in addition to many on the faith/anti-faith spectrum) don't even know about the Book of Jubilees, or that it's actually part of ongoing Christian belief systems (namely the Ethiopian Orthodox). The giant rock angels were a surprise at first, but that was just the confirmation for me that this wasn't the Genesis Noah story.

For my part, as a work of fiction, it was fairly entertaining. My brother asked me the other day if I thought that maybe Tubal-Cain ate the dodos. Heh.