The Paradox of Power....

[Huggy Bear]

Here, Huggy. I'm discussing the issue of the power of the storm that would have been required to flood the earth in this thread:

http://atheistforums.org/thread-36296-page-8.html

Read about the basic math (it's really just multiplication and division of simple figures) that will show you why the story cannot be true, and why Boru said to turn firehoses on the model.

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... he said, with no reputable citation.

According to NOVA, the Chinese claim is that the ships were 400' long, not 600', and that it's considered questionable because (yep, no steel structural supports were part of Chinese shipbuilding technology in the 1400s) of the problem of hogging.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/anc...orers.html

The accounts aren't only from the Chinese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_treasure_ship

Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta in their translated accounts described multi-masted ships carrying 500 to 1000 passengers. Niccolò Da Conti, a contemporary of Zheng He, was also an eyewitness of ships in Southeast Asia, claiming to have seen 5 masted junks of about 2000 tons burthen. A 'B' Class trading junk (c.55m long) from Xiamen in the third decade of the 19th century was wrecked in the entrance to Selat Gelasa, Indonesia, carrying c.1600 crew and passengers. Zheng He's fleet included 300 ships, including 62 treasure ships, some of which were said to have been 137 m (450 ft) long and 55 m (180 ft) wide. There are even some sources that claim some of the treasure ships might have been as long as 180 m (600 ft). On the ships, there were more than 2800 people, including navigators, explorers, sailors, doctors, workers, and soldiers. Chinese records assert that Zheng He's fleet travelled extensively, sailing as far as East Africa.

Here's the thing, Just because we don't understand how something was built doesn't mean it didn't happen. If we had no surviving examples of the pyramids, you'd be hard pressed to prove that they could be build using modern technology, let alone ancient.