Dimensions of Noah's ark are impossible?

Question

As we all know according to Hebrew history, a cubit is the length of one's forearm. If you calculate the dimensions of the ark (300cubits=450feet x 50 cubits=75 feet x 3 decks), you see that it isn't even large enough to fit 40 days worth of food for all animals in the world, let alone all the animals themselves.

Remember, there are MILLIONS of animal species in the animal kingdom (the hundreds of thousands of vertebrates make up only 1% of animals on earth). Assuming every animal took 1 inch of space, and you have at least 2 of each species, you still wouldn't have enough room. This also leaves room to ask, "Why did Christians think the animals of Australia were a hoax if there was already a previous knowledge of them?" or "How can we still be discovering new species of animals?" And finally, if dinosaurs weren't carried on the ark, then Noah didn't fulfill the will of God?

Answer 1

The story of Noah is a myth.
If a boat were built to the proportions in the bible, it would destroy itself under it's own weight.
Besides, if a story of a world wide flood were true, there would be evidence of such. And there isn't.
(and I'm talking about REAL evidence, christian science website made up crap doesn't count in the real world. Sorry christians...)

Answer 2

isn´t it also true that a vast majority of species on Earth live in the Sea, therefore they don´t need to actually get in the Ark, and anyway thousands of those species of things wouldn´t take up an inch each, however, I completely agree you because once you get the Elephants hippos rhinos Bears Large cats in there isn´t much room left, you could try filling up the remaining gaps with species of an ever decreasing size, sort of pack the Ark like a Giant 3D puzzle, they just wouldn´t fit!
As for the dinosaurs
The only ones hat were left around were the Crocs and Aligators, which could probably handle 40 days in water if they had too, and the rhino, (suppose the komodo dragons snakes and lizards would be dinosaurs too) they all got a ticket to ride.

I hate Noah and his stoopid Ark, it´s his fault that we´re all alive now, if only he hadn´t have built that stoopid Ark, we´d be extinct by now, and the planet would be ruled by mutant Sea creatures that had been gifted (By God, not by evolution or anything) the ability to walk on the Earth and create some wierd kind of Death Ray which they fire at the Sun from deep within the oceans, so it gets hotter and the Earth warms up and polar caps melt and then it becomes the almost completely Blue Planet. I´m scared has anyone got a boat!?

Answer 3

Noah was instructed to take all the clean animals.
Just because "we" discover a "new" animal, doesn't make the animal new.
Christians dont know everything. God alone does.
I dont know about the dimensions of the ark; or if your math is correct; but I did hear a rabbi do a message on it one time, and heexplained that the ark was not in the shape of a boat. As for the food issue, I dont believe that storage of food was an issue- we are talking about the same God who fed the Jews coming out of Egypt with Manna (angel food) in their 40year journey through the dessert. He also parted the sea. He has done alot of amazing things. For now we only know in part; but someday we will know in full; right now, we are to trust have faith and believe. There will beplenty of time, for you to ask our Lord this question someday! Shalom!

Answer 4

the whole Noah story is a ridiculous myth as are most of the religious stories. Even if it was true, why didn't God just kill everything in the flood anyway and save Noah the job of building an ark. God could then have just started everything afresh again. Of course, God doesn't always think rationally.

Answer 5

33 million is a close estimate. According to experts it would have taken 50 weeks to load 33 million pairs of animals at 50 per second. Something close to that anyway.

Also a boat that big made out of wood would never have been sea worthy.

Also, if the whole planet had been covered in water, there would have so much moisture in the air that all the humans and animals on that ark would have drowned by just breathing.

Finally, the God that I believe in would not have flooded the earth and murdered people and animals because He got pi$$ed off.

Answer 6

Moses exaggerated the story considerably. The flood wasn't worldwide. Noah didn't take all the species, just the ones he was familiar with. We don't know if the place he came to shore is the same place we call Ararat today. Heck, we don't even know what gopherwood is.

Other cultures have stories of a big flood too, and a clever man who saves himself and some animals in a ship. We don't know if Moses copied off them, or if there was more than one ark.

Answer 7

Christians don't believe in evolution, but remember, we believe in micro-evolution. This is the only type of evolution that has been observed or proven. Noah would only have to take about 8,000 different kinds of animals because these wouldn't be all of the species there are today; only basic kinds such as giraffe or hippo or bear. In the bible, it says he only took animals that breathed through their nostrils (excludes bugs). Also, he obviously didn't take along fish. Noah would take along dinosaurs also, but he would logically taken along babies. I t has been proven that this could work.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

"http://christiananswers.net/dinosaurs/j-... "

This is the biggest load of crap ever. Because there were obviously enough room for all the species of dinosaurs on Noah's arc. (this site didn't provide measurements)

"According to Ernest Mayr, America's leading taxonomist, there are over 1 million species of animals in the world." No. Just no. I don't believe that this is a taxonomist. I mean, what about all the beetles? (over 800,000 species) and ants (20,000)?

Answer 10

You probably couldn't fit the species of earth (with food for 40 days) into the US naval fleet, never mind the logistics of feeding, milking, and grooming millions of animals.

As you can well imagine, my seven year old atheist brain was greatly hated by the local clergy and catechism teachers.

(arewethereyet - so what did god do... kill billions of species and then fart them all back into existence? If so, why bother making Noah save a handful? Your god is a joke.)

Answer 11

According to religious literatures, God can do miracles. So if you bring your mathematical calculations, and present it to any religious priest from Jew to Muslim, on the Ark of Noah thing, they will nod at you and tell you, my friend, with God anything can happen.

Isn't it strange that this Religion forum is filled with atheists and agnostics?