Posted on 08/24/2016 8:13:47 AM PDT by fishtank
Lower figure is Matthew Pooles 1669 drawing of the Ark in water.
Figures and captions from CMI article.
The Ark Encounter has a whole section of museum dedicated to the theme of “cartoonifying” the biblical account.
>Lower figure is Matthew Pooles 1669 drawing of the Ark in water.
That boat won’t float for long.
I can’t imagine how difficult it would have been to lay the keel on that vessel. No wonder it took a hundred years to build.
Do you know how many ‘days’ the ‘boat’ floated? 150 days 5 months. A time signature. The number 5 means ‘grace’.
Especially with all the dinosaurs on board.
The rampant, flippant, sophomoric humor that has found a permanent home behind most pulpits is one example. Seriousness is derided, a constant painted-on smile is the standard (look up Chuck Swindol for an example.)
I somehow think that Jesus seldom smiled, the weight of his mission so pressed upon Him.
Genesis 1:2 - "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters."
How do you get a "flood" out of that? It says the earth was formless and empty.
So, Jesus was humorless.
I never said such a thing, and you are just being deceitful to suggest I did.
I implied that Jesus didn't project the constant joke-teller persona that most preachers today aspire to.
Honestly does it really matter what it looks like?
What kind of God would leave without the unicorns, but make room for mosquitoes?
I kid, I kid - don’t answer that.
The objective dimensions clearly stated in Scripture do matter: how many animals can realistically fit in that space? with what degree of “life support”? Validity of that passage hinges very much on whether one could actually get enough animals, of enough genetic variety, in there to re-populate the earth as we know it now.
Not just dinos, but all the freshwater (or saltwater?) fish on board. One or the other must have been on-board or they would have died (too much salinity/not enough salinity).
Not to mention the food for the elephants alone would have consumed 2% of the entire net volume of the ark. That doesn’t include food for other big animals like rhinos, giraffes, zebras, horses, etc.
And that’s at a 50% food consumption rate (half their normal daily consumption) AND assuming the hay is packed as tight as a wire-bound bale of hay; if it was loose-stack (which it most likely was), you’ve got 5% net volume devoted to just food for only the elephants.
Oh.
No mention of any animal life until Genesis 1:20.
Did you miss the Spirit of God was hovering over the ‘waters’?
Don't forget the waste generated by all these animals.
And how would it have been possible to keep the predators from attacking their fellow travelers?
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