[Hermann the Cherusker]

300 cubits by 50 cubits @ 21" per cubit * 3 decks = ~138,000 sq. ft.

@ 15 cubits high = ~ 3,620,000 cu. ft.

One railway stock car = 10 ft. x 40 ft x 15 ft. = 6000 cu ft.

The Ark had a cubic space equal to 600 stock cars. Stock cars come with at least two decks to carry animals (unless they are small like chickens. Only two of every animal are needed. A typical stock car holds 240 sheep. If a sheep is the size of the average animal onboard, there was space for around 70,000 pairs of animals. Considering that there are only a few thousands species of birds, for example, and all are smaller than sheep, it seems as though all land animals could be readily accomodated, along with food.

[PatrickHenry]

A Spanish galleon was about 150 feet long, and it was the largest ship of its time. If the ark were 300 cubits long, at 21 inches per, that's almost 600 feet long, or four times the length of a Spanish galleon. A remarkable feat of shipbuilding.

I don't know the size of a slave ship, but it probably wasn't bigger than a galleon, and it may have been much smaller. This slave ship could hold 600 slaves. The ark could hold 2,400 of them if it were four times as long. That's really packing them in, like the African captives. I don't know how Noah could have done it.

[Thatcherite]

The Ark had a cubic space equal to 600 stock cars. Stock cars come with at least two decks to carry animals (unless they are small like chickens. Only two of every animal are needed. A typical stock car holds 240 sheep. If a sheep is the size of the average animal onboard, there was space for around 70,000 pairs of animals. Considering that there are only a few thousands species of birds, for example, and all are smaller than sheep, it seems as though all land animals could be readily accomodated, along with food.

Try keeping 240 sheep in a railroad car for a year and get back to me with the results.