(December 11, 2008 at 5:54 am)allan175 Wrote: I've heard this sort of statement before (obviously the figures are available in the bible), but ould it actually be possible to build something the size of the Titanic out of wood? I expect there would be a lot of stresses & strains that would make wood impractical.
No. The ark design was a very simple one, really just being a floating chest. This provided more stability and room than a ship like the Titantic of an equal size.
(December 11, 2008 at 5:54 am)allan175 Wrote: The Earth's *surface* is is around 70% water, the actual percentage of the Earth that is water is tiny.
As an aside, I had a quick search and someone has calculated that if the Earth was a perfectly smooth sphere it would be covered to the depth of 2.5km, so there is quite a lot of water around really. Although surely lots of mountains disappearing and seabeds rising would have been mentioned in the bible too.
There is a lot of water around, yes. I don't think that the Bible gets into mountains disappearing and seabeds rising. That was scientific speculation.
(December 11, 2008 at 5:54 am)allan175 Wrote: Hmmm......Flash floods may well produce sudden deaths, but isn't it supposed to have rained for 40 days & 40 nights? Not exactly a quick thing.
(December 11, 2008 at 12:07 am)Daystar Wrote: Where did the water come from? There was a canopy of water around the earth from creation until the flood.
(December 11, 2008 at 5:54 am)allan175 Wrote: To me, this is the weakest point of everything you have said. I'd say this is exactly how primitive man would have thought rain worked.
I'm sure one of them said "*Obviously* there must be loads of water around the Earth, where else does the rain come from?" (only not in English).
Actually, they were familiar with the rain cycle as Job 36:27, 28; Ecclesiastes 1:7; Isaiah 55:10 indicate. Besides, they knew that the canopy that is mentioned as being there until the flood and not afterwards had nothing to do with rain since it rained after the canopy was gone.
