"We're going to need a bigger boat....."

[LazyGun]

I would certainly agree with Mr. Ken Ham that an ark made of a bathtub would be very dangerous - think of the overcrowding, with the giraffes and elephants and all - Whats interesting is that, in the world of Ham,nothing is wrong with the story, just the depiction, giving those pesky secularists ammo to brainwash the children ;)

http://blogs.answersi...b-arks-are-dangerous/

[sandyRoe]

If you get everything handed to you on a plate you don't appreciate it as much. Building the boat must have given Noah and his family a sense of enormous satisfaction.

[WaldoMcFroog]

You don't think they would have been wondering why an all-powerful deity didn't just magic all the bad people dead instead of coming up with such a convoluted plan?

[jomifl]

God works in mysterious ways..etc. etc. etc.

[sandyRoe]

Had he magiced all the bad people dead they would have been deprived of a last chance to earn a seat on the lifeboat.
Noah asked his neighbours to help build the Ark. If they'd agreed he could have found space for them somewhere. They laughed at him and in due course paid the watery price.

[beso]

It is an engineering impossibility to build a wooden ship of the proportions required.

[WaldoMcFroog]

My major objection to that is that no such offer to the neighbours exists in the Bible. You're not referring to parts of the story from the much earlier Akkadian or Sumerian versions, are you?

However, if we were to accept this non-Biblical addition, an omniscient God must, by definition, already know they'd turn down any such opportunity to repent.

And to suggest that for the sake of the mere possibillity of saving his neighbours, which, even being generous cannot amount to more than a few hundred people, is to also suggest that the only other people with the potential to be save were conveniently located near to Noah. It seems a bit of a stretch, no?

Doesn't wash, Sandy. Sorry.

[jake-the-peg]

To Hell with the boat

Where is all the water supposed to have come from and gone to?!?!!

[RATTER15]

Depending on what you read, it actually took between 98 and 120 years to build the ark, so unless they had very good wood preservatives, by the time they finished the boat it would have been falling to bits through rot!

[RATTER15]

Jake, the land just pushed up through the water, hence the oceans, well that's according to the JW that came knocking on my door one day.

Obvious really!

[FredPuli43]

New Yorker cartoon. A lion says to Noah "We've run out of antelope"

But the story of a flood devastating the world, leaving but one pair of humans (rather than a family), is found elsewhere isn't it? It's certainly in Ovid (died 17 AD), in his Metamorphoses. And isn't it in the Epic of Gilgamesh, of about 3,700 years ago, written in Mesopotamia? Don't think either of those mentioned saving all the animals.Perhaps the writers had more practical sense.Or perhaps they hadn't the right god to inform their writing.

[modeller]

birdie #dodo or two). Let us think about how they could be contained and kept healthy for 40 days and nights.#
Just as a point of interest it was the rain that fell for 40 days the flood flooded the world for 150 days ( 7 months ) but the world was still flooded and it was another 3 months before he let the animals out , into a dead world with not a living thing plant or animal for Noah's animals to live on.

[ll_billym]

He should think himself lucky that anybody is bothering to make pictures of the ark at all.

[Zacs-Master]

Or just having a laugh.

[wildwood]

As it came to rest on the Ararat mountain ranges, it reasonable to assume that Noah built the Ark somewhere in the middle east? How did Noah keep the polar bears and penguins cool?

[sandyRoe]

There was plenty of water about. He'd let them go for a swim.

[sandyRoe]

NO. Ah, if I only had more faith.

[RATTER15]

SandyI don't think anybody would have wanted to swim in that water dues to all the dead vegitation and animals floating around, all the fish and other fresh water and saltwater life would also have died when all the fresh water and sea waters, all the cold waters and warm waters collided and mixed etc, I think the sea would have been highly polluted, don't you?

[sandyRoe]

Ratter, you have a point there. Perhaps they had a swimming pool on the Ark. The hippos would have needed the occasional wallow and the polar bears and penguins somewhere to cool down.