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

[JackRussell]

The fact that was never a global flood is a pit of a problem too.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Awe, c'mon folks! He's just being a good christian. You know, lying out his ass.

[Ravenshire]

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.

GC

Exactly as I thought.

And I'm no son of yours, asshole

[Anomalocaris]

 Do you even know the properties of gopher wood?

GC

Let me guess, it is a supernatural god wood.  It transforms on demand to being harder than steel, tougher than titanium, stronger than adamant, easier to cut or carve than cheese, and yet lighter than hot air.

News for you, there is no such thing as gopher wood.  Being mentioned by the Bible does not make it real. At best the writers of Bible had in mind cedar or cypress and try to inflat it into something enough to daunt utterly ignorant, gullible and insensible fools like you.

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The property of bigger objects being proportionally weaker than smaller one of exactly the same shape should not be beyond even the meanest intelligence.

Most force acting on an object is proportional to the cube of the object's dimension.  In our case here, weight and buoyancy of a ship is proportional try to the volume of material and the volume of the hull respectively.   If a ship is scaled up to exactly twice its original dimension in every respect, the amount of material will go up by a factor of two cubed, so it will weigh 8 times as much.  It's volume will also go up by two cubed.  So It's bouyancy will also be 8 times as much.  But it's strength, which depends on the cross sectional area and area moments of inertia, only goes up by two squared.  

Hence, double a ship's dimension, forced acting on it will increase by a factor of 8, while its strength will only increase by factor of 4.  It will be twice as weak as before.

If you make a 1/10 scale model of the ark out of exactly the same material, the model ark will proportionally be ten cubed, or 1000 times stronger than the real arc.

This is why models are worthless for the purpose of demonstrating structural integrity of the full sized ark.

We have 3000 years of experience with ever more sophisticated and ambitious wooden ships, made of real wood much stronger than any readily available in the middle East, using constructional techniques undreamt of by the ignorant landlocked goat fuckers, and we've found 250 feet is about the upper limit of the dimension of any all wood construction that actually has real hope of keeping the water out in rough seas.

[The Grand Nudger]

I've always wondered what sort of joinery simpletons imagine magic boat was constructed with. Mortise, sown, lash? I assume clinker is out because nails aren't on the table. Was it built frame first or shell first?

If it was a mortise boat, what mortising implement was used? Were the tenons hewn and the mortises fire drilled? If it was sewn or lashed - how where the gouges created and what type of fiber was used for he binding? In either method how where any less-than-watertight joints accounted for? What was the filler, what was used as oakum and what epoxy would have done the job.

Magic wood is a terrible explanation for a boat. Particularly in that it then begs the question of how such magic wood was or even could have been worked. If anyone thinks "wood" is the answer to the question of how a boat is built........then this is laziness informing ignorance.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I've always wondered what sort of joinery simpletons imagine magic boat was constructed with.

They probably hope it floated on the bodies of sinners. To which I ask, "why does the tiger and her cubs have to die too?"

[Minimalist]

Do you even know the properties of gopher wood?

Apparently it is fucking invisible.  Can't see how that would help in a storm.  Maybe it would prevent you assholes from seeing it sink?

[Simon Moon]

The fact that was never a global flood is a pit of a problem too.

Seriously!


How to loose credibility in one step. Claim the Biblical flood story really happened. I can't really think of a reason to listen to anything one would say after that.

Almost as bad, claim that the Biblical flood story is not plagiarized from Gilgamesh.

[The Grand Nudger]

I want to know what kind of axe it takes to cut down a gopher wood tree.  The shit can resist the forces of the Deluge, after all. I'm guessing it's stronger than the average twig.

[Minimalist]

It seems he used this:




What the fuck.  If you are going to claim miracles you may as well go the whole 9 yards.