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Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor
What is it with these heathens?
I looked up "soccer" or 11-a-side football
so that's 105 x 68 x  = 4,760m
How on earth would 2 each of the unclean and 7 each of the clean animals + 7 each of all birds fit into a single deck rope coracle? Here is a coracle:
It is large enough to hold 1 elephant.
What do you think would happen if you put an elephant in there ? ? ?
Any rope construction, even coated with tar, would unform and decoil.  When it rained, the coracle would fill up with water and a larger coracle would hold even more water. Can you imagine what of a soccer field full of water would weigh?
The historical record describes what material was used: gopher wood. It was 3 storeys high and its dimensions are included:
300 cubits length and 50 cubits breadth. Allowing ˝ metre per cubit, since it will be an early slightly longer cubit God's specifying here, we have
300 x ˝ = 150m
50 x ˝ = 25m
150 x 25 = 3,750m
and there's three decks
3,750 + 3,750 + 3,750 = 11,250m
ELEVEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY SQUARE METRES
AND A ROOF because God realises that birds have wings and just fly out of coracles especially when accompanied by bird eating tigers
The history is settled Genesis 6 and dimensions are preserved for us by God so that when charlatans start in with the "Bible? Shmyble, I dug up this clay tablet written in an extinct language and it says exactly what I knew it was going to say because there wasn't any Noah and your Bible is a crock" routine we can point out their error and in this case explain that we already know the size requirements for twos and sevens of all animals and birds and wriggling things and -the-size-of-a-soccer-field is woefully inadequate. |
Godly observations, Mitza. The Bible tells how the Ark was constructed--why would someone make up this other stuff?
Another question, why would former Republican Presidental Candidate John McCain be photographed in a silly tub?