Noah's Ark???

Question

I responded to a question on here stating that according to the Bible, the ark was 110 miles long, 18 miles wide & 11 miles high.No biblical purist has come back & condemned me to hell, and no one has asked how I arrived at these measurements. Interesting!

Answer 1

The bible does say answer not a fool according to his folly....proverbs

Answer 2

I guess it depends on how you answered the question as to whether or not you have been condemned to hell.

As for the size of the arc, how did they measure it in miles? I thought a mile was an imperial British measurement, dating much later than the time of the ancient Hebrew peoples. I strongly suggest a mathematical conversion error is at fault. Someone has slipped a decimal point by several places.

Noahs ark, as we all know, grounded on the slopes of Mount Ararat, SE Turkey, when the flood subsided. If you take the road out towards the Iranian border, it's remains are clearly signposted. This ark (better described as its fossilized upturned hull) is, I guess, at least an order of magnitude smaller that the one you describe, probably only several hundred yards long, and more in line with what we might imagine as a conventional ship.

Note that no-one has ever found any fossilized human or animal remains on the ark, so they cannot prove it was Noah's, but as they all got off alive, that's a non-starter for an argumant really!.

Note also that this ark bears a striking resemblance to a type of naturally-occuring and commonplace geological formation called a "fold". An anticline, to be more precise.

You pays your money and make your choice.

My interest in Noahs ark stems from my son, who is called Noah. We named him thus because when my wife's waters burst just before his birth, the midwife exclaimed that it was like "Noah's Flood" in the maternity ward.

I can supply further details on the fossil ark should you might ever want to visit it. Or I can supply more details on basic geology.

Answer 3

Even the australian aborigines have a flood story, and guess what the guys name was who was in the boat? They called him mr Noh, same with the inuets and every ancient culture of the world, and as a geophysicist myself, I can assure you that there is much evidence for a global flood, eg water tide marks on the side of mountains, fossils found that actually go through the strata and are not just under one layer, indicating a burial in water over a short period in time, also the locations of the fossils which are mostley found on high ground, with species that would not normally have anything to do with one another, all huddled together on the high ground in an attempt to escape a natural disaster, with the sedimentary strata indicating a flood.
The boat itself, we have actually made computer simulations and models of the boat using the specifications used in the Bible, and we found that the design was actually the most stable ship ever to be built, it would survive anything that was thrown at it. Instead of rubbishing everything, why dont you make an objective scientific study yourself, and you will see in the experiments that the results can be repeated to the same degree making it un arguable fact, unlike evolution that is taught as fact but is in actaul fact an unproven theory. When something stands the test of time and repeated experimentation as what the Word of God does then does that mean that it is fact or are you just not willing to accept the truth because that would mean that you are answerable to a higher power?

Answer 4

Do you really think those measurements are realistic?

At that time there was enough time to build what was built, and it wasnt ten years like what would have been required, for a 110 miler!!!

Hmmm how would you steer the thing anyway, and keep it afloat? Or turn it around when needed? Or even see where you're going?

If you had people posted at 50 foot intervals giving passed on signals. It would take a very long time to reach the steerer and have effect.

Do you know the difference between feet and miles. Its quite big ya know!

I think you'll find it was more like 450 feet long.

Answer 5

Genesis 6:15 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society


This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. [a]

Answer 6

Noah's Ark

A symbolic on take of God View of Humanity increase Sins.

The world so sinful, God need to cleanse it.

Now, Jesus have set sword in our house, 3 against 2, 2 against 3. Father against Son, mother against daughter.
Till, when the Lord return, will He still find Faith ?

He has send fire to the world, and He will see that it is ablaze.

Now, as opposed to Noah's Ark. Be it at any measurement.
We have to look at the symbols behind it, and understand God View on Sins of the World.

Just as in last book of the Bible. The Revelation. All symbolic in nature.
Can any Bible Purist disprove it?
Therefore, the beginning book, Genesis, is too symbolic on Humanity Rises and Falls.

Let not read too much.
Have all prepare, to set your heart ablaze on fire for the Lord ?

Answer 7

Interesting indeed! If I believed in god and his crappy man made bible, I might actually give a $hit. As it happens, I don't. But well done on illustrating the point that the bible is riddled with inconsistencies (as it was written by some bloke way after jesus was supposed to have lived) and isn't worth the paper it's written on. It makes a good fire and ar$e paper, but that's about it. Well done also on the fact that you have perfectly exemplified that all believers in any religion are quite happy to ignore these inconsistencies if they conflict with their belief systems. Your question is a little pointless, but you are to be commended on your aitheist actions. Congratulations. You can sleep well tonight.

Answer 8

It isn't important that you read it right, it's more important that Noah heard God right. And by the way it was cubits. Miles weren't used back then. They probably didn't answer you, because they thought you were putting it in terms that we could relate to now.

One thing is certain, the reason for the ark in the first place, was because God was displeased with Man, and used his rath against him. Today, that could be compared to the Tsunami's and Hurricane Katrina, and the other many disasters today that by the way, are becoming more frequent in number. Man is once again, displeasing to God. Gay marriages, using airplanes as human bombs in His name, I wouldn't want to be on the wrong side when he shows us that God is God again.

Answer 9

5 And Noah did all that the LORD commanded him.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. 7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Anyone else see anything wrong with this?????

Answer 10

There was no ark it is a story, something put simply for simpletons to understand. I mean next people on here are going to say how tall was Adam or was he a ginger?
Hmm.

Answer 11

Flood myths appear in most of today's religions. Chances are they all came form the same source with the names and places changed to suit each religion.