(July 30, 2014 at 8:58 am)Esquilax Wrote:(July 30, 2014 at 8:36 am)Revelation777 Wrote: Have you ever built an ark to see if it wouldn't float?
Sorry Rev, it physically can't: wooden ships less large than the ark was purported to be- with the benefit of iron braces, I might add, and sailed in tranquil weather- proved to be not seaworthy. Wood simply isn't structurally capable of that; it flexes and separates and eventually floods.
For further information, check how many of the ships substantially over three hundred feet long have the word "sunk" in their eventual fate. The ark is purported to be substantially larger than all of them, made of inferior materials, operating for a longer period of uninterrupted sailing with no hope of repair, in conditions far worse than those that sank every ship smaller than it.
The ark would not float.
Also, a Dutch Christian recently built a full size replica of the ark and had to mount it on two steel barges because it didn't have the structural integrity to float by itself.
He apparently failed to see the irony implicit in this.
If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71.