If the story of noah's ark is true how could he have fitted all the animals and how did he manage to get hold of all the animals in the world cause we all know certain animals can only be found in certain parts of the world

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• "A growing number of scientists believe that geological evidence indicates our world has undergone a catastrophic flood. This is causing them to question whether or not the biblical account of Noah's ark could be true. Many people are rereading the Biblical description of the Ark to ascertain the feasibility of such a vessel to fulfill its designated purpose in light of present day knowledge of both zoology and our present day knowledge of shipbuilding.

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  by Tallyman on August 11th, 2009

• And God said unto Noah… Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt though make in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 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. A window shalt thou make in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side therof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it." (Gen. 6:14-16)

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  by Tallyman on August 11th, 2009

• Most Hebrew scholars believe the cubit to have been no less than 18 inches long [45.72 centimeters]. This means that the ark would have been at least 450 feet long [137.16 meters], 75 feet wide [22.86 meters] and 45 feet high [13.716000000000001 meters]. Noah's Ark was said to have been the largest sea-going vessel ever built until the late nineteenth century when giant metal ships were first constructed. Its length to width ratio of six to one provided excellent stability on the high seas. In fact, modern shipbuilders say it would have been almost impossible to turn over. In every way, it was admirably suited for riding out the tremendous storms in the year of the flood.

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  by Tallyman on August 11th, 2009

• These dimensions are especially interesting when compared to those given in the mythical, Babylonian account of the Ark. Here the ark is described as a perfect cube, extending 120 cubits in all directions and with nine decks. Such a vessel would spin slowly round and round in the water and from the standpoint of stability, would be a disaster.

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  by Tallyman on August 11th, 2009

• The total available floor space on the ark would have been over 100,000 square feet, which would be more floor space than in 20 standard-sized basketball courts.

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  by Tallyman on August 11th, 2009

• The total cubic volume would have been 1,518,000 cubic feet [462,686.4 cubic meters] --that would be equal to the capacity of 569 modern railroad stock cars.
  
  Now comes the question, how many land dwelling air breathing animals would have had to be taken aboard the ark to survive the flood?
  
  According to Ernest Mayr, America's leading taxonomist, there are over 1 million species of animals in the world.

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  by Tallyman on August 11th, 2009

• However, the vast majority of these are capable of surviving in water and would not need to be brought aboard the ark. Noah need make no provision for the 21,000 species of fish or the 1,700 tunicates (marine chordates like sea squirts) found throughout the seas of the world, or the 600 echinoderms including star fish and sea urchins, or the 107,000 mollusks such as mussels, clams and oysters, or the 10,000 coelenterates like corals and sea anemones, jelly fish and hydroids or the 5,000 species of sponges, or the 30,000 protozoans, the microscopic single-celled creatures."
  ~ http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c013.html

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  by Tallyman on August 11th, 2009

• Haha. It was established almost 300 years ago that - geologically speaking - a global flood could never have happened. No geologist outside fundamentalist christian (and muslim) creationist organisations believes otherwise. All evidence found since merely confirms its complete and utter impossibility.
  
  Fresh water animals die in salt. Salt water animals die in fresh. Mixing the two in a massive catastrophe would kill most of them.
  
  The distribution of fossils - from the very oldest to the most recent - is too uniformly layered to have happened in a single event. Completely and utterly impossible.
  
  The figures you've quoted above (from John Woodmorappe by the looks) are bogus and do not work. Simply do not work. It is a totally unfeasible undertaking - unless god miracled almost everything relating to the ark - in which case why bother to try and explain it scientifically?
  
  In short - noah's story is a newer version of an older story and nothing more than a myth.

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  by Friartuck on October 10th, 2011