"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]

My ship of fools has just foundered on the rocks of logic. :-(
I'll have to try another tack

[ludwig]

You're confusing the wardrobe with the ark Duncer. The animals go in the ark and the clothes in the wardrobe. A wardrobe would be completely unsuitable for saving animals from a deluge. They're not watertight for a start.

[Duncer]

They don't need to be, wood floats.

[ludwig]

A wardrobe wouldn't float if it was filled with animals. A single elephant would be enough to sink it, let alone two. I think it's MDF anyway.

[Duncer]

It's God's magic wardrobe, and he shrank the animals.

[Duncer]

And I'm scaring myself because I'm sober and I'm stil typing crap like that.

[sandyRoe]

But in The Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, a Christian allegory, I believe, there was all sorts of animals in the wardrobe.

[sandyRoe]

where did that 'was' come from? there were all sorts of animals...

[ludwig]

// It's God's magic wardrobe, and he shrank the animals. //

Just think, you're probably the first person ever to have written that sentence in the history of the english language.

[Duncer]

The book will be available shortly; all contributions to Duncerism gladly received.

God compels you to give.

[LazyGun]

@Duncer - You have opened my eyes ;) Gods magic, wardrobes, and shrinking animals - it all makes so much sense! :)

[Duncer]

Thanks LG - I hope your cheque is in the post or I shall have you smote.

Very roughly!

[jomifl]

I think Mr. Ham has demonstrated his ignorance by showing an illustration of a type of hull that is intended to be propelled through the water. The underwater protrusion at the bow is either a ram designed for sinking enemy ships as used by the ancient greeks or an aid to more efficient movement through the water. Either way he would need to dump all the animals overboard in order to house enough oarsmen to take advantage of this feature.

[ludwig]

There's an outboard motor on the back where you can't see jom. It's a bl00dy big one mind - nothing unrealistically small.

[jomifl]

didn't think of looking for one of those. Would I be correct in thinking that it is a platform that can be lowered on levers manned by anxious looking oarsmen?

[ludwig]

Don't be silly jom. You know perfectly well it's a big wooden one with a propellor the size of a windmill, powered by two teams of oxen on a treadmill. Let's keep within the bounds of reality shall we?

(Sorry, make that one team of oxen and a team of hippos, or something else.)

[jomifl]

Perhaps something like a sternwheeler with elephants inside it running as fast as they can to avoid being drowned. To go faster you just lower it further into the water.

[sandyRoe]

They would have harnessed the whales to the ark.

[jomifl]

What a ridiculous idea Sandy. :-)

[bigbadmarty]

not unless the whales contained human "pilots" inside their bellies ...