Noah's Ark

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The Flood, by Michaelangelo, detail from the Sistine Chapel, 1509.

According to the book of Genesis, Noah's Ark (often referred to just as the Ark) was built by Noah on the directions of God to preserve Noah and his family and representatives of each of the animal kinds from the Great Flood.

Design and construction

The Ark was constructed with pitched gopher wood and had three stories divided into multiple rooms, a window, and a door.[1] The dimensions were three hundred cubits long by fifty cubits wide by thirty cubits high.[2] which equates to approximately 450 feet long, by 75 feet wide, by 45 feet high.

Noah was instructed by God to take aboard the Ark his wife, his three sons and their wives, male and female pairs of all the "unclean" kinds of creatures, seven (or seven pairs) each of the "clean" kinds, and enough food and supplies for everyone.[3] [4], God shut them all inside the Ark and started the Flood. AND FROM THESE LIGHT BROWN SEMITIC PEOPLE WE NOW HAVE DARK SKINNED AFRICANS, CREAMY PALE SKINNED SCANDINAVIANS, OLIVE SKINNED ASIANS WITH THEIR ALMOND SHAPED EYES AND REDDISH SKINNED NATIVE AMERICANS. WE CALL THIS THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES.

The Ark's passengers were aboard for about a year[5]. The Ark came to rest somewhere in "the mountains of Ararat", believed by many to be the mountains with that name in modern Turkey.[6]

Before they left the ark, Noah released a raven then a dove to see if the earth was dry enough to exit.[7]. For theories on the spread of animals after the flood see Post-Diluvian Diasporas

AHEM. Every school child who has studied fundamental physics knows that a wooden boat the suposed size of Noah's ark would have collapsed under it's own weight! Aside from that, how in the world would animals that only live in the tropical rainforests of South America been able to find their way to Noah's back yard? And what about all the air breathing trees, shrubs, flowers, woody plants and grasses? Noah would have had to collect seeds from all the thousands of individual species of these? How did he get to the Sierra Nevada range of mountains to collect seeds from the Dawn Redwoods which only grow in that area? Have you ever seen a tree after it's been under water for a year? It's stone dead as are it's roots and it's seeds.

Controversy

Many people, including some Christians do not believe that Noah's Ark existed and have raised many objections to the existence of the Ark and the Flood. These include the following:

  • a lack of room for all the animals, usually on the basis of the biblical reference to kinds being the same as species (and there are about 1,250,000 identified animal species on Earth [8]). Supporters of the account reject that kinds is to be equated with species, so use a much lower number.
  • a lack of geological evidence for a global flood. [9][10]
  • The inability of the eight humans on board to care for all the creatures on board.
  • The difficulty some animals would have getting to or from the ark, especially those adapted to a specific habitat, such as the sloth, which can only travel hanging on the branches of trees, and animals that live on islands and could not swim to those islands after the flood.

Young Earth Creationists have written a number of responses to such criticisms, such as John Woodmorappe's Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study[11] which argues that kinds is not to be equated with species, and that there would therefore be a much smaller number of creatures on the ark, and that there are ways that the humans on board could have cared for all the creatures on board. Creationary geologists have also pointed out that much of the Earth's geology is sedimentary (water-laid) rocks, as one would expect from a global flood.

In 1977, Ron Wyatt promoted a site on Mount Ararat which he claimed was the remnants of Noah's Ark. [12] However, his findings have since come under criticism from a variety of sources including mainstream archaeologists and other Young Earth Creationists prompting Answers in Genesis, one of the world's largest creationist ministries, to make a general statement that Young Earth Creationists should not use Wyatt's claims since they are at best highly dubious.[13][14]

References

  1. ↑ Genesis 6:14, 6:16
  2. ↑ Genesis 6:15
  3. ↑ Genesis 6:18-7:3
  4. ↑ Genesis 7:6, 7:11
  5. ↑ The flood began on the 17th day of the second month of the 600th year of Noah's life (Genesis 7:11) and the ark's passengers alighted on the 27th day of the second month of the 601st year of Noah's life (Genesis 8:13-15)
  6. ↑ Genesis 8:4
  7. ↑ Genesis 8:14-16
  8. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species
  9. ↑ http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html
  10. ↑ A Critique of Rapid Post Flood Speciation by Reasons to Believe an Old Earth Creationist ministry
  11. ↑ http://www.rae.org/noah.html
  12. ↑ http://www.wyattmuseum.com/noahs-ark-04.htm
  13. ↑ http://www2.andrews.edu/~merling/
  14. ↑ http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dont_use.asp
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