Did you know that Noah's Ark had perfect dimensions?

Question

In Genesis 6:15, God instructed Noah to build an ark that was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. This is a ratio of 30 to 5 to 3 (length to breadth to height). Until about 1858, the ark was the largest floating ship ever created. In terms that we understand better, the ark was about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. In 1844, a man named Isambard K. Brunnel built his giant ship, the Great Britain. He used almost the exact ratio of the ark—30:5:3. As it turns out, these dimensions are the perfect ratio for a huge boat built for seaworthiness and not for speed.

What is more, shipbuilders during World War II used approximately the same ratio to build a ship known as the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien (one of a group of ships known as the Liberty Ships, which were referred to as “the ugly ducklings”)—a barge-like boat built to carry tremendous amounts of cargo, just like the ark.

NOW THAT'S COOL!!!

That's right!

bif, How did Noah know the perfect seagoing ratio to use in building the ark?

cpt, Brunnel and others like him had many generations of shipbuilding knowledge to use, but Noah’s literally was the first of its kind.

Thank you Joe!

abys,
Think again! Where did he get such information? From the Master Builder!

fasdf,
After informing Noah about an upcoming worldwide flood, and commanding him to build a massive boat of gopher wood (approximately 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high), God instructed His faithful servant, saying, “You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above”

tom,
Upon reading about this window in Noah’s ark, many people have contemplated its usefulness (or lack thereof). Since, historically, windows have served two basic purposes (that of lighting and ventilation), inquiring minds want to know what good one window 18 inches square would be on an ark with a capacity of about 1,400,000 cubic feet full of animals.
How cool is THAT!

bognog,
Dennis McKinsey, the one-time editor of the journal Biblical Errancy (touted as “the only national periodical focusing on biblical errors”), once asked: “How could so many creatures breathe with only one small opening which was closed for at least 190 days? [sic]” (1983, p. 1). Other skeptics also have ridiculed the idea that sufficient ventilation for the whole ark could have come through this one window (see Wells, 2001). In fact, anyone even slightly familiar with animal-house ventilation needs are somewhat taken back by the apparent lack of airflow allowed by the ark’s design. Unless God miraculously ventilated the ark, one little window on a three-story boat, the length of which was a football-field-and-a-half long, simply would not do.
God had THAT ALL figured out!

black, Not true. Do your homework.
Critics of the Flood account have argued that the ark simply was not large enough to handle its assigned cargo. Such critics, however, generally have not taken into consideration exactly how large the ark really was, or the cargo it had to carry. As Whitcomb has pointed out: Right?

AJ,
He SURE did!
According to Genesis 6:5, God “...saw that the wickedness of man was great...,” and declared His intent to destroy the Earth by water as a result of man’s willful rebellion. Approximately a century before the Flood, God chose to reveal and explain to a single human being, Noah, His decision. God then instructed Noah to make the necessary preparations for the coming judgment by building an ark that would serve as the instrument of salvation not only for his own family, but also for the seed of all land-living, air-breathing creatures.

howtostopanatheist,
For the sake of realism, imagine waiting at a railroad crossing while ten freight trains, each pulling 52 boxcars, move slowly by, one after another. That is how much space was available in the Ark, for its capacity was equivalent to 520 modern railroad stock cars. A barge of such gigantic size, with its thousands of built-in compartments (Gen. 6:14) would have been sufficiently large to carry two of every species of air-breathing animal in the world today (and doubtless the tendency toward taxonomic splitting has produced more “species” than can be justified in terms of Genesis “kinds”) on only half of its available deck space. The remaining space would have been occupied by Noah’s family, five additional representatives of each of the comparatively few kinds of animals acceptable for sacrifice, two each of the kinds that have become extinct since the Flood, and food for them all

vehement, You're right!

October, A lot people make that mistake when they survey the wonders of the pyrimids. In THIS case alleast YOU'RE missing an undertanding of the power of God.

shew, No problem.

simon,
Not true. For example, vast animal graveyards and fossiliferous rubble shifts have been found worldwide. Evidence of a great, sudden, and recent watery cataclysm—followed by a deep freeze across the entire great north, accompanied by titanic hydraulic forces and crustal upheavals burying a host of elephants and other great beasts in a region that now is almost totally devoid of vegetation—has been documented. Vast numbers of fossil trees and plants, standing erect, oblique and even inverted while piercing through successive beds of water-laid stone (i.e., polystrate fossils) have been discovered.

Answer 1

Guess God knew what He was doing when He instructed Noah to build it and how to build it.

Answer 2

Noahs Ark Dimensions

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Some of you, in trying to debunk the story of the flood, have missed the most compelling question of all. How were the almost universally accepted dimensions of large boat construction mentioned in stunning detail in a manuscript as old as the Bible. Especially as you point out no craft this size, you believe was possible to build or test to confirm it's sea worthiness. The odds of the accuracy are rivaled only by the fact our earth is tilted on it's axis at 23.5 degrees which is exactly what it takes to create seasons and sustain life on this fragile planet. The list of these so-called coincidences is mind boggling if you study to see God's hand in creation instead of stetting out to deny it. The Bible is full of these examples, to which God MAY be kind enough to point out at His Judgement but I do believe you will have quite the opposite reaction of awe and more along the lines of utter terror when you then realize the implications of these revelations now made so clear to you. Until 1926 man thought the Milky Way galaxy was the universe but what a revelation Dr. Hubble gave us all with his discoveries. Be careful about relying on your own wisdom as God will and does make fools of such nonsensical people. Seek ye now or tremble later.............ron
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Answer 5

The reason why no one built ships that big until the Great Britain was that you can not build a sea going vessel that big out of wood.

The biggest wooden ships were built in the mid 1800s and used steel members to help make the hull rigid and needed constant pumping in rough weather.

The Great Britain was made from iron. and was actually a 33:5:3 ratio. She was designed as a passenger ship and was quite fast for her time.


So:
The ark ,if built, would have sunk in the first storm.
Big as it was, there was not room for all the current species.
Rabbits would be extinct because
a) there was nothing to eat from being covered in salt water for months.
b) the two foxes were hungry.
Similarly foxes would have died out from the lack of any more rabbits.
A global flood would have left distinct marks on the world. There are none visible.
There continuous recorded texts throughout the alleged time of this global flood. Not only is there a total lack of the collapse of civilizations, no one else thought it worth mentioning.

Face facts: It's just a story.

Answer 6

What's more important is the allegoric moral.
Seek and find: "Revelation about Noah's Ark".
Legend of the flood is only thing common to man.

The GRACE of our Lord JC with you all. Amen.

Answer 7

Yes I didn't realise the engineering of ships had such an old history, still I suppose man has been making boats for a long time.

Answer 8

Did you know it's all made up? That you could never get all those creatures on there, and distribute them around the earth. I mean how did kangaroos get to Australia if the ark is in Turkey?

Answer 9

That is cool! Shows that boat building is a very old art! Did you know the size of the space shuttles boosters is derived from the spacing of two Roman horses behinds? Tradition!

Answer 10

And were there any evidence of any such ark ever existing outside of Abrahamic based mythology, it would be very cool indeed...