[cloudmountain]

Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.
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It would have taken his family 500 years to build the craft... makes sense.

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The problem with that is the first planks put in would have already ROTTED away long before the 500 years needed to build it.

What? Did Noah have the "rock people" working hard for him?

[OneWingedShark]

The problem with that is the first planks put in would have already ROTTED away long before the 500 years needed to build it.

Well, unless he was sealing it, inside and out, as he built it.

[Neidermeyer]

The problem with that is the first planks put in would have already ROTTED away long before the 500 years needed to build it.
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Language has changed and in particular numbers and time in the bible are symbolic to a great degree ,, I’m not the brightest bible scholar but I know enough to understand that the number “40” doesn’t mean 40 ,, it simply means A LONG TIME ,, my 500 year guesstimate was just based on the sheer immensity of the job , that it was one families work , they couldn’t devote all their energy to it and the lack of modern tools. You should take it to mean “a long time”.