Dear Tim,
as you should know the Bible is not exhaustive on the details of the Arks construction, but it does provide enough information to at least get a basic picture of the Ark’s general shape which is of a vessel that looks a bit like a barge or perhaps you could even compare it to the general draught shape of an oil tanker.
But I am surprised that you consider yourself an expert on naval architecture and conclude from nothing but a rudimentary drawing that the Ark would fall apart. Utter nonsense.
Why don’t you believe what the 70 translations of the Bible and Jesus Himself so carefully and clearly tell us all that the Holy Scripture account of the Ark and the Flood are REAL History.
Why must you disbelieve?
Remember Genesis 6:11-22
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
22 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
And Remember Genesis 7:16:
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.
It is clear that the Lord God was present with Noah at the Flood. I think, though the Holy Scriptures do not specifically mention it as far as I know, that it is very likely that God guided Noah in the construction of the Ark, the Holy Scripture records enough of its dimensions that we are able to get an idea of the size of the Ark, and I think it is also very likely that God was with righteous Noah on the Ark and being for His divine purpose and constructed at His divine command, He guided and protected the Ark and its precious cargo through the flood that ultimately He brought upon the Earth and is in control of for the purpose that we are reliably informed at Genesis 6:5-7:
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Again utter nonsense! I refute that egregious allegation.
No one is slandering anyone and no lie is being perpetrated.
If you choose to read into from the relative perspective of your worldview that ‘Dark Energy’ and ‘Dark Matter’ are real, well good for you.
Personally, it doesn’t matter to me either way if it is real or not, but one thing I do know is that most of the entire universe is supposedly made, of ‘Dark Energy’ and ‘Dark Matter’ yet no one has ever seen either of them.
The search has now gone on for ‘Dark Energy’ and ‘Dark Matter’ for about 45 years and yet no one has found anything, not a shred of evidence!
You would do yourself an immense service if you informed yourself of the real situation at:
Same again!
Again utter nonsense! I refute that egregious allegation.
No one is telling a lie here.
To claim that ‘Dark Energy’ and ‘Dark Matter’ are proven as real is a BIG stretch of the imagination.
What if, as is completely reasonable those direct measurements on observations, that are interpreted as being caused by gravity, (which may be the case, however it is possible there may also be another reason), are discovered to be caused by something that as yet we know nothing about?
Scientific discovery is replete with examples of just such events.
Well let’s just wait and see if in reality the imagined ‘tree of life’ that is simplistically based on the visible morphology is incongruent with the ‘tree of life’ based on DNA sequence.
As we are reliably told in the Bible that God spoke life into existence in creation week, I would expect that the imagined evolutionary ascension will not be demonstrated. Of course I expect that any similarities that are found will be shouted off the rooftops by the believers of evolution as proof. But as has been pointed out now too many times to count, all life live on the Earth under the same gravitational force, and have access to the same biochemistry, in most cases respire by oxidising fuel, power cellular machinery with adenosine triphosphate etc. and most importantly were all designed by the same incomprehensibly brilliant Designer, thus it is to be expected that there will be many similarities; but as for being proof of evolution, no, but let’s wait and see what comes out of the sequencing.
Tim, I strongly suggest that you read and absorb the true facts about the Earth by reading the informative and trustworthy article at:
and if you need more convincing about the error in your interpretation here, I suggest you read:
Tim, it does appear that you sorely underestimate the intelligence of the inspired authors of the Bible and in this particular case Genesis.
You would do yourself an eternal favour if you carefully read the honest article at:
and then I suggest you read:
God bless you,
jon