Get In The Ark Before It Is Too Late!!!

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According to physic students an ark built as prescribed in Genesis holding animals can float.

So, if one could hypothetically build an ark to the specifications outlined in the Bible, and actually cram two of every species on the boat, would it float or would Noah have found himself in a Titanic-like scenario? That’s what four physics graduate students at the University of Leicester wondered. As part of a special course that encourages the students to apply basic physics principles to more general questions, the team did the math and found that an ark full of animals in those dimensions could theoretically float. They recently published their research in a peer-reviewed, student-run publication, the Journal of Physics Special Topics.

Diiiid you read the paper, or did you stop at the news article that seemed to confirm what you want to believe?

Because I actually read the paper. So...

First of all, here's the conclusion:

Therefore, regardless of which
figure is correct, we believe the ark to be of
sufficient buoyancy. Of course,
this does not
conclude whether logistically Noah’s ark was
possible,
it remains to be concluded if the size
of the boat is sufficient to house all the
animals
.

So it's not as unequivocally on your side as you present, Rev. Second of all, there's a vast difference between "sufficiently buoyant," and "seaworthy." The only conclusion presented in this paper is that the ark would not immediately sink upon being introduced to the water, and that's no great feat. Those lesser ships that all sank didn't do that either. But they did flex horribly, take on water perpetually, and require intensive repairs at that. The Wyoming, for example, was smaller than the ark and, due to the flexing of wood that was braced against that with iron, needed to be constantly pumped out while at sea.

The ark wouldn't have sunk right away. But it would have sunk very quickly when introduced to open water even in tranquil conditions, unless eight people could bail out a ship of that size- without drowning any of the animals- pretty much constantly. And that's even discounting capsizing, damage from the flood, and... you know, the wood flexing apart.