Posted on 04/03/2014 7:23:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Noah’s Ark would have floated even with two of every animal in the world packed inside, scientists have calculated.
Although researchers are unsure if all the creatures could have squeezed into the huge boat, they are confident it would have handled the weight of 70,000 creatures without sinking.
A group of master’s students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Leicester University studied the exact dimensions of the Ark, set out in Genesis 6:13-22. According to The Bible, God instructed Noah to build a boat which was 300 cubits long 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high—recommending gopher wood for the enormous lifeboat. The students averaged out the Egyptian and Hebrew cubit measurement to come up with 48.2 cm, making the Ark around 144 meters long—about 100 meters shorter than Ark Royal. Using the dimensions, the Archimedes principle of buoyancy and approximate animal weights, they were astonished to find out that the Ark would have floated. …
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Interesting post. It should be noted that Noah is reported as having one wife, the number of wives each of his sons is not reported, except that it was apparently at least one each.
See no reason why whales would need to be in the ark. They could have been swimming around just fine.
Good point.
Here’s the problem. You just can’t go around making calculations about the probable size of the Ark to “prove” that it was capable of floating the purported weight of all the animals, and then when someone points out some of the other logistical issues Noah would have to deal with suddenly revert to miraculous help involving animals in suspected animation or their food/water being provided (and waste disposed of) by miraculous means.
You can logically claim either scientific/logical support for all aspects of the Bible story of Noah, or you can claim that the whole thing was a miracle outside the normal bounds of science. You cannot, IMO, logically claim that science supports your position on aspect A of the issue and therefore the story true, while abandoning science and going to the unknowable powers of God on aspect B when you cannot support your position by science/logic.
Or, more accurately, you can claim anything you like. But you damage your own position when you mix science/logic and divine intervention as convenient to you in a single argument. Or at least that’s how it looks to me.
Well put.
Since mosquitoes breed and grow in water, they weren’t on the Ark.
They were allowed to live so the mosquito eating birds and bats would have something to chew on when they left the Ark...duh! :-)
Apparently Cain's son ate them.
Nice try but you don’t get to make the rules. For believers it is obvious God made the rules for us - He [who can create out of nothing and knows all things past, present, and future [b/c He also created time itself!]] can bend or break any rule He darn well pleases.
Also for all of us true believers it’s obvious that true science will agree completely with God’s infallible word.
But any true atheist will readily admit science does not, can not, and will not ever have an answer for everything.
Seeing as how these ‘sciencey’ answers still come from man it is also obvious that a good portion of them will continue to proven and dis-proven ad-nauseum.
Very.
Nice try, but neither do you.
I was not making up rules, like you did, merely pointing you to the rule maker.
I’m trying to wonder what the food stores amounted to? Did Noah know how long he’d be at sea? With only two of each species, good thing none of them died except maybe the unicorns and the jackelopes. The lamas from Peru must have arrived in time, same for the marsupials from Down Under. So where did the water go after it covered pretty much everything? Did it pour into the underground caverns of Hollow Earth? Apparently it didn’t extinguish the fires of Hell. Where did the rain come from, BTW?
God works in mysterious ways.
Mount Everest is 29029 feet tall.
29029 / 40 = 725 feet (per day of rain; small adjustments should be made to correspond to the slightly larger number of cubic feet of water needed as the water deepens)
725 feet would cover the Giza pyramids, and everything else built by pre-Flood humans up to perhaps 700 feet elevation. Most people now (and then) live within 700 feet of sealevel.
All that's required is, all 70,000 animals be fed into a juicer and stored in one large container, then the cubic feet figures will work. That would also solve the problem of having to feed them for six months. Of course, all of them would be dead...
With modern power tools it took over 300 man-years of labor to build each of the Ark 'replicas'.
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