Noah's Ark - how much timber would that use?

Question

My reading of the Bible is that Noah had 7 days to both build this boat and find the animals and load them on board. It is generally understood that the days - which have day and night (according to the scriptures) must have been 24 hours.
How did an old man and his children cut down enough trees, cut into planks, season and then build such a huge boat in the time?
How did the animals get there from all corners of the world in 7 days - it takes 5 days to fly round the world by plane! Plus the South American sloth is not the most speedy of animals and cannot walk on the ground - and there was the sea in the way too.
Creationists please explain this one to me.

7 days to prepare: reference Genesis 7:4 "For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth." (every indication that this was from the day of god talking to Noah which happened just once prior to the flood)

reference the 24 hour day: http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v19/i1/days.asp

Plus it states that noah is to gather all the food for himself and his animals - not sure where he got eucalyptus for the koalas, bamboo for the pandas etc.
plus it had to be gopher wood, not sure where that grows.

Answer 1

oh oh...dont forget that Noah was 600 years old too...Im sure his bones ached pretty bad.

Gen. 6:15 says, "The length of the ark shall be 300 cubits(450 feet-ed), the breadth of it 50 cubits (75 feet-ed.), and the height of it 30 cubits (45 feet-ed.)." How could two of every animal survive for approximately 10 months on a boat encompassing1,518,750 cubic feet? The food alone would absorb tremendous space.
Gen. 7:15 says, "And they went in unto Noah into the Ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life." How did water creatures such as whales, porpises, sea snakes, dolphins, and so forth enter the Ark? Moreover, since millions of species of animal exist throughout the world, how could a pair have been taken from each? There are over 500,000 separate species of insects alone.
Gen. 7:2 says "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, male and his female;...." Yet, clean and unclean animals were not delineated until the eleventh chapter of Leviticus. The Mosic law arose 600 years after the Flood. There were no Jews, Israelites, or clean vs. unclean animals in Noah's time.

Answer 2

That's Y it took Noah so long 2 make it, that time was used wisely 2 collect the animals 2gether.
The animals, I think would have had a lil nudge from God 2 get 2 the Ark in time B4 the rain.
The Earth did not have the Body of Water that it does now.
4 corners of the Earth was how big? Do U know ? Because I don't.
It comes down 2 good old Faith.
Sorry U proberly wouldn't understand.

Answer 3

according to my bible and reading it took Noah more like 20-30 years to build it. He used the labor from the surrounding area. Even tho these people did not agree with him, but wouldn't you take a job if you could get it. Plus he took 2 of every KIND not 2 of every animal,, meaning water animals did not need to come on board. Only the first geni of each group came on board. The earth was repopulated again at the time of the tower of BABEL when peoples skin changed, their DNA changed and their speech changed to confuse te people and scatter them around the earth.

The flood took place only in his area ( the known world) at the time and not the whole earth. Therefore some animals did not need to get on board.

Those that did were instructed to by God and it is believed that at that time and only during the year in voyage that the animals and Noah could talk to each other.

Study it again. It is fasinating reading and
studying. People say there is proof of a tablet on the wall deep in the black sea made about that time that details the flood as an actual event.

While no one knows for sure, it was deff a big boat, a big task, done on faith.

btw. dinosaurs are mentioned in Genesis. And they walked with man. Our small animals are direct decendants of those animals, its just that they don't live for hundreds of years anymore to grow to that large as they once did.


Noah was 500 when he had his sons and 600 when the flood hit. Lots of time to build a boat.

Answer 4

Heres some more, how did they house the food to feed all of these animals? How did they keep species from eating each other and thusly extinct another species, you would only have to eat one of the mating pair. How did they gather the over 60 Million different species of insects alone? The problem here is people are regarding myths, and tall tales as truth. How true could the Passion, or the story of Jesus' crucifiction be when it wasn't written down until several decades after it happened. Why isn't the story of Jesus and the prostitute in any Bible transcripts before the 1200's?

Answer 5

The Ark is described as 300 cubits long, the cubit being a unit of measurement from elbow to outstretched fingertip. Many different cubits were in use in the ancient world, but all were essentially similar, and literalist websites seem to agree that the Ark was approximately 450 feet (137 m) in length. This is considerably longer than the largest wooden vessels ever built in historical times: according to certain sources, the early 15th-century Chinese admiral Zheng He may have used junks 400 feet (122 m) long, but the schooner Wyoming, launched in 1909 and the largest documented wooden-hulled cargo ship ever built, measured only 350 feet (107 m) and needed iron cross-bracing to counter warping and a steam pump to handle a serious leak problem. "The construction and use histories of these [late 19th-century wooden European] ships indicated that they were already pushing or had exceeded the practical limits for the size of wooden ships." Literalist scholars who accept these objections—not all do—believe that Noah must have built the Ark using advanced post-19th century techniques such as space frame construction.

Answer 6

How hard is it for the God Who created the entire universe in six days to pull off the part of the universal flood that saved a pair from every species of animal? If a creationist believes in a literal, 6-day creation (followed by a literal seventh day of rest), then the flood is rather easy to explain.

Answer 7

Remember that the bible make no real reference to Dinosaurs, and the Bible dates the beginning of the earth to only a few thousand years ago. So Noah would have had to have Dinosaurs on that Ark too. Pretty damn big Ark.

Answer 8

1 it wasent 7 days it was 40 years and
2 God brought the animals to Noah

Answer 9

If I remember right, God brought the animals to Noah. I dont know about the boat though. It had to be almost 15 stories high to fit two of every animal, insect, and bird.

Answer 10

five hundred was not that old and the flood didn't start until he was six hundred. How long is that? A cubit is about 18 inches. At the end of Genesis chapter nine Noah died at the ripe "old" age of 950 years.