How big was the ark?

Question

The zoo in my city covers an area of 15 hectares and houses approximately 1/450,000th of the animal species on the planet.
So that means the Ark would have to be about the size of florida. One would think that would make this boat the easiest historical object ever for archaeologists to find and positively identify. Hiding in the basement of the Vatican, perhaps?

Pwwatson, your information is in error. There are about 10 million animal species which fit your description. So for them to fit on an arc the size you describe, they would have to all be shrunk to microscopic sizes. This also assumes they dont need to do things like eat.

Answer 1

How many times do I have to tell you? It doesn't work if you add reality and mathematics ; )

Answer 2

Noah's Ark was taller than a 3-story building and had a deck area the size of 36 lawn tennis courts. Its length was 300 cubits (450 feet, or 135 meters); its width was 50 cubits (75 feet, or 22.5 meters); it had three stories and its height was 30 cubits (45 feet, or 13.5 meters).

The total available floor space on the ark would have been over 100,000 square feet, which would be more floor space than in 20 standard-sized basketball courts.


Assuming an 18-inch cubit [45.72 centimeters], Noah's Ark would have had a cubic volume equal to 569 modern railroad stock cars.The total cubic volume would have been 1,518,000 cubic feet [462,686.4 cubic meters] --that would be equal to the capacity of 569 modern railroad stock cars.

Now comes the question, how many land dwelling air breathing animals would have had to be taken aboard the ark to survive the flood?

According to Ernest Mayr, America's leading taxonomist, there are over 1 million species of animals in the world.


God only provided the Ark for the protection of humans and land-dwelling, air-breathing creatures. A huge number of animals would not need to be taken aboard the Ark because they are water dwellers. Representatives would be expected to survive the catastrophe. With God's protection against extinction during the Deluge, survival would have been assured. (Scene from The World that Perished, a Christian motion picture about the Flood)However, the vast majority of these are capable of surviving in water and would not need to be brought aboard the ark. Noah need make no provision for the 21,000 species of fish or the 1,700 tunicates (marine chordates like sea squirts) found throughout the seas of the world, or the 600 echinoderms including star fish and sea urchins, or the 107,000 mollusks such as mussels, clams and oysters, or the 10,000 coelenterates like corals and sea anemones, jelly fish and hydroids or the 5,000 species of sponges, or the 30,000 protozoans, the microscopic single-celled creatures.

Answer 3

That is not possible, if there would have been ark so big it would have been revealed till now.

Actually Noah only took such animals which would have been of some use to HIm and not every animal. Furthermore the Flood was not Universal but local. This has been confermed by the recent archalogical survery. Quran conferms it too...

Answer 4

The ark measured 133.5 m by 22.3 m by 13.4 m (437 ft 6 in. × 72 ft 11 in. × 43 ft 9 in.), less than half the length of the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2.

Answer 5

the Arc was bigger than a dream, and not just any dream, but the dream of the man who was the first to find out about the use of grapes in the production of wine.
I tried once to measure such an arc, with enough red wine to help me, and my measurements showed that it was the size of California

Answer 6

17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. (Genesis 6:11-21)

How wrong you are pwwatson8888! It stated clearly that your god destroyed all life under the heavens. Your god told you that everything on earth will perish be it land dwellers or sea creatures.

Remember whales, turtles, dolphins breathe air and all of them are sea creatures. Or is this another long list of mistakes in your bible?

Answer 7

noah's ark is quite big because how will the the big and many animal will can enter if is small tha!!!!

Answer 8

Are you assuming Noah took ADULT animals? Or are you assuming that he also took roaming space with him? I wonder.

Answer 9

Hahahahahaha....... It seems to me you've already answered the question man!

Answer 10

You try to put Man-made calculations and logic to the all-powerfulness of God.
Can't do it. Just believe. You'll be saved.