Noah's Ark--Funny Stuff?

Question

In fact, we know its exact size - it was 450 x 45 x 75 feet, with an approximate volume of 1,518,750 cubic feet.
How did they get this number? Very simple - it's stated in thebible.
Conservatively, there were 3500 species of mammals, 6000 species of reptiles, and 12,000 species of birds. Add this all up and you get 21,500 different species. Of course, there were two of each, or 43,000 individuals on the boat.
Now let's do some quick math: 1,518,750 divided by 43,000 is about 35 cubic feet per animal. Wow! That sounds like ample space. Wrong! It is about the size of a human coffin! (6 x 2 x 3 =36 cubic feet)
Uh, Oh! We forgot about food and water! This would take up quite a bit of space, as they were supposedly on the ark for at least 275 days. Water storage is a big problem. After all, you can't drink the salty seawater. If we figure an average of 1 quart per day for each animal, Noah would have to store away 1,263,125 gallons of course, it was raining heavily, so not.

Let's not forget the space needed for cages, partitions, and passageways.

We need even more space for any offspring produced along the way.

If we take into account all of these factors - we can make one conclusion: the ark must have been extremely cramped, unsanitary, and oppressive.

Even worse, there were only eight humans and some 43,000 animals screaming for their attention.

This means that each human was responsible for feeding, watering, and cleaning 5375 animals each day. If they slept four hours a day, they would need to care for 270 animals each hour. Wow! Simpler said than done.

Some may argue that these numbers suggest that the ark was an impossibility. On the other hand, some would say that these calculations are meaningless due to the power of the almighty. I'll let you decide for yourself.

One thing that we can be sure of though - a trip on the ark was not like a honeymoon on The Love Boat.

http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/noahs_ark/index.html

That site craps me up. The way it's written is pretty funny. Thoughts?

Yea craps me up lol. Cracks me up is what I mean to say.

Reading is fun. At the end I put thoughts? As in what's your thoughts about the article I posted. If you don't have any thoughts then you're probably a corpse.

Answer 1

People often try to discredit the Noah's Ark story by focusing on the boat and/or the animals. Personally, I prefer to focus on the source of the water. I've heard of three sources for it.

1) A great canopy of water existed in the sky and collapsed to cause the flood.

If this was the case, a canopy of water sufficient to cover Everest would have increased the air pressure to over 800 times what it is today. That's like being at the bottom of one of the deepest trenches in the ocean. Not even nuclear submarines can withstand that pressure. Just think what it would have done to all the people and animals who were supposed to have lived under that canopy of water for generations.

2) Huge geysers spouted water into the sky from deep underground.

The problem with this isn't pressure, it's heat. The deeper you go, the hotter it gets. To bring forth enough water to cover Everest, it wouldn't have been like Old Faithful. It would have been more than every volcano on the planet going off at once and continuing non-stop for 40 days. Everyone would have been boiled alive before they could care about being drowned.

3) Comets brought water from outer space.

That would have required a lot of comets. Craters around the planet show what one comet can do. If you need a more visual explanation, you can try watching one of those comet impact movies like Armegeddon or Deep Impact. We'd have been far better off trying to live through the global water volcanoes than trying to survive through a global bombardment by comets.

Answer 2

It worse than that.
it's seven pairs of each of the birds and each of the "clean" animals. (Genesis 7:2-3)
So your figure for birds is way off:
nearer 168,000 individual birds.

(fourteen by fourteen instead of two by two has been largely overlooked. Possibly helped by lobbying by toy manufacturers. Except verses 9 and 15 do not mention the seven pair category)

Answer 3

that's a whole lot of math. however... fundies dont believe in math or science so it doesn't matter how many accurate numbers you put there FROM there own texts. they will never believe you even if it is what they believe

Answer 4

it's a good children's bedtime story

Answer 5

whats your point