(August 28, 2017 at 11:14 pm)Astonished Wrote:(August 28, 2017 at 11:08 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: No. 5000 years of experience in the construction of wooden ocean going ship finally culminated at the end of the long wooden ship era in the mid 19th century in the largest wooden ships that were reliably documented. These ships were about 300 feet long, 60 feet wide, and displaced around 5,000 tons. Those ships didn't work very well, flexed like a noodle in heavy seas and leaked like sieves because of limited strength of wood, and ships didn't get bigger until they inserted iron bracing into the hull.
Well, shit, that just means they WILL proclaim that gopherwood IS magic and would not have the limitations of any other earthly wood.
They can argue the ark didn't need to be ship shaped because it didn't really need to navigate, only float. So it could be square, or round. It also didn't need to worry about draft or windage, so can be built much deeper than practical navigable vessel. So in theory an ark could be much more commodious than the largest practical wooden vessel that actually had to navigate.
But the same practical thinking that might lead to this alibi would also note the impracticality of every other aspect of the story. In other words, any creationist who can think up practical ways to increase the plausibility of an ark wouldn't have been dumb enough to be a creationist in the first place.
