Even today that boat wouldn't float.
What was the secret? Magic God Power?
2006-06-29 08:18:37 · 13 answers · asked by Kenny ♣ 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Are you referring to "hogging" or the tendency of a ship to bow in the middle and sag towards the bow and stern. If you are, this occurs because of differences in bouyancy over the length of ship and, without being an expert, I would guess that by building a vessel of the same width throughout its entire length, one would greatly minimize this problem. Also, the designer of the U.S.S. Constitution addressed this problem by installing diagonal supports, called "diagonal riders" between the ribs of the ship decreasing the deformation: who knows, Noah and his family may have done the same. In any case, as another respondant mentioned, "With God all things are possible."
Note: Anything that displaces more than its weight will float.
2006-06-29 09:47:30 · answer #1 · answered by tom d 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Practically every culture in the world has a story dealing with a great flood. This just happens to be the one favored in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Noah probably took the things and people he could, but the likelihood of a flood covering the entire earth is nearly impossible unless all of the ice caps melt and the land suddenly flattens to let more water settle, so a lot of animals probably survived on their own. When it says Noah took two of each animal, it means the animals that were in his area of the world, and probably only domestic animals, at that. This shrinks the boat considerably and makes a more historically plausible version of this story more likely.
2006-06-29 08:25:22 · answer #2 · answered by Cat Loves Her Sabres 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Noah made the ark
engineers designed the Titanic..look what happened to it ! !
The engineers made a comment that God couldn't even sink the Titanic
2006-06-29 08:58:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure that God kept it from splitting, just like he kept Noah's descendents (which, if that flood did cover the ENTIRE planet, is every human alive today) from being inbred freaks straight from a creepy episode of the X-Files.
2006-06-29 08:22:43 · answer #4 · answered by spb1968 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would have split under its own weight, not to mention the thousands of tons of cargo is supposedly held.
Furthermore, the flood never happened. A flood of such magnitude as described in the bible would have left completely consistent global traces. Also it would have provided sufficient buoyancy to lift the ice caps and break them apart.
2006-06-29 08:23:49 · answer #5 · answered by RED MIST! 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I surmise that that would depend on one's faith on the Strength of Materials. Hehe...
Don't sweat it, man. Come on, you can't base an entire belief system to pledge your SOUL on a slide-rule or a scientific calculator, can you?
Peace be with you!
2006-06-29 08:26:00 · answer #6 · answered by Arf Bee 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
According to science, there is no explanation for why our planet exists as it does.
If you move us just a tiny bit closer to the sun, we all fry. A little further away, we all freeze.
Take the moon away and we all perish. Even move it a little too close or too far, and we suffer enormous disasters.
There is no logical explanation for why it all fits so perfectly together...but it does.
There is only one explanation.
2006-06-29 08:21:14 · answer #7 · answered by truebeliever_777 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The secret is a good imagination to write believable fiction.
2006-06-29 08:31:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God does His own thing. We can't explain it in our limited Human terms. God knows how things are done and promises to answer all of our questions in time. God bless and guide you to the Truth.
2006-06-29 08:23:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gullible christians.
2006-06-29 08:23:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋