It is claimed that "Naval architects rediscovered that the Ark's dimensions were the optimum for riding stormwaves with maximum stability, making it completely uncapsizeable. The 1935 USS Oregon was constructed to exactly the Ark's ratios, and is considered to have been the most seaworthy warship ever built."
Yet elsewhere it is said that the source of this claim is "Lost Cities of China, Central Asia and India" by David Hatcher Childress, described as "a rogue adventurer and a maverick". The USS Oregon was 348x68x24 feet. The Ark was 450x75x50 feet ie significantly different ratios. Patrick McSherry documented the Oregon's entire life and wrote that "it rolled excessively until retrofitted with bilge keels".
Is the famous comparison in Creationist circles between the two ships a myth & a red herring?
Yet elsewhere it is said that the source of this claim is "Lost Cities of China, Central Asia and India" by David Hatcher Childress, described as "a rogue adventurer and a maverick". The USS Oregon was 348x68x24 feet. The Ark was 450x75x50 feet ie significantly different ratios. Patrick McSherry documented the Oregon's entire life and wrote that "it rolled excessively until retrofitted with bilge keels".
Is the famous comparison in Creationist circles between the two ships a myth & a red herring?