From a 2012 Daily Mail article: "As it weighs in at almost 3,000 tons and is made from Swedish pine reinforced with steel, it may be hard to believe that the ark is, in fact, seaworthy."
What's that tell ya?
Where did Noah get the steel?
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- Holds more than 5,000 people at once
- 95 feet wide (29 meters)
- 410 feet long (125 meters)
- 75 feet tall (23 meters)
- 5 decks
- 2,500 tons (5,000,000 pounds)
Tells me they didn’t build it the way Noah built the ark.