The Ark: 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). That will give you a volume of 1,518,750 Cubic feet or the space available in 102,618 Sears chest freezers. That is enough room for about 50,000 steers, cleaned dressed and packaged just to give you an idea of the volume we are talking about. That would pack the Ark from bilge to rafters with meat.
75,000,000 Pounds would be the cargo weight or 375,000 tons of cargo. 564,763 is what a fully laden oil tanker weighed in 1970. This on wooden home built roughly a 3rd of the size of the Queen Mary and around half the size of the Titanic.
2007-07-17 18:21:50 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How the hell do you KNOW all that for sure?
How the hell do you KNOW Noah existed?
How the hell do you expect ANY of us to answer this truthfully?
No one knows.
2007-07-17 18:28:09 · answer #1 · answered by Me Being Me 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You've done a good job in explaining how difficult it would be if we were to use the biblical measurements literally. I am not a literalist and I admit there are things in the Bible which seemingly do not make sense or are unclear. However, this does not change in any way the fact that I believe the Bible is God-inspired. Nor does it have any effect whatsoever on my faith, my devotion to Christ or my conviction that God is real. My personal faith does not need exact measurements to keep it afloat.
2007-07-18 01:49:25 · answer #2 · answered by Michael B - Prop. 8 Repealed! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Curious where you got your numbers for a cubit? Cubit is unknown quantity. No one has been able to quantify the Ark nor the Temple based on the numbers given.
2007-07-18 01:28:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A railway stock car (2,670 cu.ft.) can carry about 240 sheep. Noah's ark (1,518,750 cu.ft.) would have the capacity of about 569 of these railway cars. Remember that Noah would not have had to take all the sea-based animals. Nor would he have had to take ADULT animals. LaHaye and Morris estimate that about 35,000 vertebrates would have to go onto the ark, but let's call it 50,000, just to be safe. All these animals would have occupied less than 40% of the ark's total volume, according to your measurements.
2007-07-18 01:50:54 · answer #4 · answered by Y10K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need a lot of imagination to really believe in this story. I don't know what is more weird the construction of the vessel or looking for the animals to fill the interior (including the recent addition of the herbivorous Tyrannosaurus and other monsters).
...and don't try to explain the logistic of feeding the animals.
2007-07-18 01:32:22 · answer #5 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There have been some ship designers look at the stats in the bible. A mini model was made of the ship and tested. It was determined the ark would work.
2007-07-18 01:32:07 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it took him 120 years to do and he had the power of God...
Genesis Chapters 6 and 7
2007-07-18 01:28:48 · answer #7 · answered by sbql77 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Ark was created by God not Noah. I hope this helps. Best Regards, M.G.S.
2007-07-18 01:26:46 · answer #8 · answered by Mettle Gnosis Seraph 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He used a compression algorithm, an industrial strength version of Win-Zip
2007-07-18 01:28:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
He had help obviously. Do you think he could have attempted it by himself? The Architect was there providing.
2007-07-18 01:34:03 · answer #10 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DO YOU KNOW WHY THEY DIDNT PLAY CARDS ON THE ARK ? NOAH KEPT SITTING ON THE DECK. THIS ARK THING IS A TOUGH PILL TO SWALLOW= = = AT LEAST FOR ME.
2007-07-18 01:34:02 · answer #11 · answered by woolly worm 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋