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.

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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”
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Thanks cro, Let him be. He'll learn...one day...

Good for YOU, alibubba,
But you have to understand: Critics like you 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.

heather, not for God.
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.
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Kitty, That's what I'M TALKIN' about!!

Greag, I truly AM sorry for your delusion and the confusion many "religious" folks have placed before you; but that doesn't have any bearing on the TRUTH.
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.
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timesup, What you don't realize is that YOU can't comprehend the full power of God. EVERY man/woman has to humble himself/herself in order to come to God. Peace.

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god is amazing

Answer 2

"Perfect dimensions" for an ark of fiction is still fiction! Your story doesn't hold water. There was no great flood - that is sheer ignorance and fairytale.

"Noah's ark is 450 feet long. The largest wooden ships ever built were just over 300 feet, and they required diagonal iron strapping for support. Even so, they leaked so badly that they had to be pumped constantly. Are we to believe that Noah, with no shipbuilding knowledge, was able to construct a wooden ship longer than any that has been built since?

but not only was the ark too big to be seaworthy, it was far too small to be able to contain the earth's millions of plant and animal species." SAB

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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 .

Answer 4

So, uh, did Noah pick up two kangaroos off of the Australian continent and then drop them off again before coming to rest on Mount Ararat? If not, then how did the kangaroos, Kuala bears, panda bears and every other animal not native to the middle east survive the flood? I have the answer, but you’re not going to like it. I'll give you a hint. The flood, like most bible stories, was nothing more than the heavily fictionalized story of the birth of the Jewish people. It functions much in the same way as the Iliad did for the classical Greeks.

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Two of every species of living things on this planet weighs over 100 million tons. Noah would have needed an Arc a few miles long. The ignorant people who wrote this story didn't know that, but we know it today. Religions know that this story is not the word of God (unless God didn't know better). But they insist that you believe that it is, while they pass around a collection basket.

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In the original version the Ark was simply a pontoon bridge made of barges that allowed animals to cross to higher ground before that bank flooded...

Answer 7

Did you know that Noah's ark didn' really exist?

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Just amazing. Now what does that demonstrate? You realise that you still would not fit 2 of every species of animal into it and God ordered 7 of each type for many of the animals

Answer 9

Don't let anyone else tell you differently, sonny, I was there paddling along and I know how big it was. Wait a second, I think that could have been the Titanic. Who knows?

Answer 10

And what was your point again?

Have you seen the wonder of the pyramid? (same time frame)

You think it would have been hard to build a seaworthy boat? come on now!

Answer 11

This is dogmatic religious rubbish