Noah's Ark (!) Shows How Seaworthy It Is In A Storm

[Godscreated]

I see you don't care about science if it comes from Christians, so tell me why should I care about science that come from atheist.

GC

You haven't provided science done by christers. You've provided unevidenced assertions. Unless you're willing to provide some evidence...

 Son it's all over the internet. It's something I've known for the last forty years.

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I see you don't care about science if it comes from Christians, so tell me why should I care about science that come from atheist.

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It was built out of wood to the specifications the Bible gives.

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 Correct a scaled replica floated in a large tank that had waves produced to represent the conditions that were suspected to be during the flood.  just as engineers do with modern day vessels before they build them, see Christians do use science and use it well.

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The most comprehensive test of this (of which I'm aware) was a Smithsonian article from a few years ago.  A group of physics students built a scale model and worked out that the Ark as described could be loaded with animals and would float, but that's about all it would do, and not for very long.  The length of the beams required would make them extremely fragile, and they would shear under their own weight within a few hours (you could get round that by using smaller beams spliced together, but that would drastically increase the likelihood of leaks).  Even if the Ark did manage to stay afloat, the weight of the barge + cargo would put the upper deck of the Ark less than a metre above the waterline, so that even a modest wave would flood the deck and capsize the boat.

I think a fair test would be to build a child's boat out of cardboard, set it in a wading pool, and turn a firehose on it.

Boru

 Your arrogance is showing. I've know about the test for forty years where you been.

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 Correct a scaled replica floated in a large tank that had waves produced to represent the conditions that were suspected to be during the flood.  just as engineers do with modern day vessels before they build them, see Christians do use science and use it well.

GC

Models can scale things like buoyancy and fluid dynamics.

A scale model, for pretty obvious reasons, cannot replicate torsional stresses to scale, or, specific to a hull, lateral and longitudinal keel stresses to scale. This is stuff they teach you like day one when modeling in wind tunnels and wave pools. The square-cube law is important here; if you increase an object's size, its surface area increases by a power of two, and its weight increases by a power of three. The structural rigidity, however, increases at a slower rate than the weight. This is important. The bigger something gets, the more fragile it is. Think of the Titanic. Ass in the air, that structural steel snapped like a twig. 

You need to find out what really sunk the Titanic.

So they could tell that it might have floated, and that with a representative cargo load it might not capsize. But they cannot tell you just in a wave pool alone what happens when a wave hits at an angle so that there is a massive torsional stress across the keel. For that, you need computer models. This is what real ships have to go through. A gopherwood ship, 450ft long, would not survive a wave that hit it at an angle. Other wooden ships give empirical evidence that this is so. The Wyoming foundered in the first major storm it got stuck in, and before that needed modern pumps to keep afloat because of how much water came in when the planks stretched and warped because of the length.[/quote]

 Do you even know the properties of gopher wood?

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