How big was Noah's ark? Assuming evolution hasn't happened?

Question

there are/were at least 300,000 species of beetle on there (2 of each is 600,000 beetles!) on the ark! It must have been HUGE!

Answer 1

Once again, the literal fundamentalists have neglected to identify the symbolism in the good book. Noah's ark was actually a space ship and Noah a benevolent alien. The animals were brought aboard in the form of gametes to be started in petri dishes or in the form of other nuclear material that could be stored and cloned at a more convenient time. No fuss, no muss, no poop, and no danger of lions eating zebras. All the species fit neatly into a walk-in freezer. You don't need a Rhode Island-sized boat for that.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The problem is your assumption that he had to take each SPECIES of beetle. He only had to take each genus and speciation would create the other specis after they got off the ark.

"15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. [d] 16 Make a roof for it and finish [e] the ark to within 18 inches [f] of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks." (GEN 6:15-16)

That amount of space was much more than enough for him, his family and the at most 8000 types of animal he had to bring aboard. Now if he only took young animals, he could have saved even more space.

Answer 4

There were no bugs on the ark, read the Bible-only animals with breath in their nostrils. The ark was 300x50x30 cubits. We don't know how big a pre-flood cubit was. The standard Egyptians cubit was about 18 inches, you can do the math. A pre-flood cubit could have been as much nearly 48 inches by extreme estimations. That could make the ark up to 1200 feet long. That is probably an exaggeration. Only two of each kind of animal was needed. A kind would be like the "dog" family-that would include dogs, wolves dingos, coyotes and the like -only two were needed. There was enough information in the gene pool to make everything kin to a dog out of one pair.

Answer 5

The Ark was a huge box: 300 by 50 by 30 cubits. That converts to 437 feet 6 inches [133.5 m] long, 72 feet 11 inches [22.3 m] wide, and 43 feet 9 inches [13.4 m] high. The ark was thus 146 yards [134 m] long—almost half again as long as a U.S. football field. Even such a colossal structure could not accommodate the over one million species of animals scientists say exist. However, I learned that some investigators believe that just 43 “kinds” of mammals, 74 “kinds” of birds, and 10 “kinds” of reptiles could have produced the great variety of species that exist today

Answer 6

The Ark was approximately 450 ft long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet tall, it was built with three floors. It is likely that most of the species of animals taken on the Ark were newly born, or very young. We also know that God called the animals to the Ark, so Noah and company didn't have to go search for them.

Answer 7

Many species of land animal require highly specialised habitat and food to survive. Koalas, for instance, eat one kilogram of fresh Eucalyptus- tree leaves per day, which provide all their water and nutrition (some people have suggested Noah had a year's supply of dried Euc. leaves. But Koalas need the leaves for their water. What did Noah do? Rehydrate them? With what, a desalination plant? Hold them out in the rain every morning?) Also, no matter what time of year it was, many creatures would be hibernating (it's always winter somewhere on the globe). Many creatures are only found on one continent, indeed some are limited to a small island/forest/mountain. It's a neat trick to be able to walk thousands of miles to the Middle East if you're hibernating on a remote island near Alaska.

How could the ark cope with all the specialised requirements of food/environment for millions of creatures? The 320 different species of humming-bird, for example, have very high metabolic rates and have to consume large amounts of nectar throughout the day. The Ark would have had to cater for 640 humming-birds, requiring an almost constant supply of fresh nectar. From flowers. Which wouldn't grow in great abundance in a dark, damp boat.

How could the ark cope with disposing of the waste products of those creatures? It must have had an incredibly advanced plumbing and ventilation system, superior to anything to be found on modern ocean liners or large military vessels (eg. aircraft carriers). One problem that dairy farmers have is that vast quantities of fresh dung produce highly toxic gases (falling into the slurry pit can be fatal because of this), and it would have been many times worse on an Ark. Next time you are at a zoo, ask one of the keepers how easy it is to deal with the needs of the few hundred animals they have for a month, and then imagine scaling that up to a gigantic floating zoo with millions of creatures being looked after by one old man and his family.

Where did Noah find the pitch to waterproof the Ark with? Flood theorists say that all the world's oil / petroleum deposits were formed during the Flood. How could Noah find and use pitch to waterproof the Ark before the Flood, when the pitch was formed during the Flood? Did he have SCUBA gear as well, and kept diving down to gather fresh pitch from the ocean floor and apply it to the Ark while it was floating around? Pitch is a petroleum deposit, which takes more than a couple of thousand years to form. (Some people argue that "wood-pitch" was used instead, although the commonly held belief is that it was petroleum-pitch).

Using modern equipment, it can take a good shipyard years to build a large ship, using hundreds of men. Noah (five hundred years old at the time) apparently had himself, a few helpers and a lot of gopher-wood trees. We are expected to believe that he built the Ark, using crude hand-tools, over a period of many years in a world filled with evil, scheming criminals. ("The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.")

and then there's the incest......

phoenix sl: you just admitted something. they are all variants of basically the same thing. do you know what that means? THEY EVOLVED

Answer 8

How do you know that the 300,000 species of beetles today are not a mere 3,000 kinds. Man has decided what the classification of modern species is not God. In God's wisdom and understanding all the species of today could truly be related and merely be variants of less than a million different types.

Answer 9

The ark had a carrying capacity equal to that of 10 freight trains of about 25 American boxcars each!

Could the Ark Have Held All the Animals?

It is true that encyclopedias refer to over a million species of animals. But Noah was instructed to preserve only representatives of every “kind” of land animal and flying creature. Some investigators have said that just 43 “kinds” of mammals, 74 “kinds” of birds, and 10 “kinds” of reptiles could have produced the great variety of species of these creatures that are known today. The ark had about (1,400,000 cu ft) of usable space—ample for the passenger list.

What would building the ark involve? Jehovah directed Noah to construct a huge watertight, three-story, wooden chest, 437 feet long by 73 feet wide by 44 feet high. (Genesis 6:15, 16) Such a vessel would have had a capacity similar to that of various present-day cargo vessels.

Since the 19th century, there have been numerous attempts to find the ark on the mountains of Ararat. These mountains have two prominent peaks, one 16,950 feet high and the other 12,840 feet. The higher of the two is perpetually covered by snow. Because of the climatic changes that followed the Flood, the ark would soon have been buried by snow. Some investigators firmly believe that the ark is still there, buried deep in a glacier. They claim that there have been periods when the ice melted sufficiently to permit part of the ark to be exposed temporarily.

The book In Search of Noah’s Ark quotes George Hagopian, an Armenian, who claimed that he climbed Mount Ararat and saw the ark in 1902 and again in 1904. On the first visit, he said, he actually climbed on top of the ark. “I stood up straight and looked all over the ship. It was long. The height was about forty feet. Regarding his observation on his subsequent visit, he said: “I didn’t see any real curves. It was unlike any other boat I have ever seen. It looked more like a flat-bottomed barge.”

From 1952 to 1969, Fernand Navarra made four efforts to find evidence of the ark. On his third trip to Mount Ararat, he worked his way to the bottom of a crevasse in a glacier, where he found a piece of black wood embedded in the ice. “It must have been very long,” he said, “and perhaps still attached to other parts of the ship’s framework. I could only cut along the grain until I split off a piece about five feet long.”

Professor Richard Bliss, one of several experts who examined the wood, said: “The Navarra wood sample is a structural beam and impregnated with bituminous pitch. It has mortise and tenon joints. And it’s definitely hand-hewn and squared.” The estimated age of the wood was set at about four or five thousand years.

Although efforts have been made to find the ark on Mount Ararat, the definite proof that it was used to survive a cataclysmic deluge exists in the written record of that event in the Bible book of Genesis. Confirmation of that record can be seen in the great number of flood legends among primitive peoples all over the world.

Answer 10

Noah's Ark was taller than a 3-story building and had a deck area the size of 36 lawn tennis courts. Its length was 300 cubits (450 feet, or 135 meters); its width was 50 cubits (75 feet, or 22.5 meters); it had three stories and its height was 30 cubits (45 feet, or 13.5 meters).

Answer 11

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