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I thought the author of the original post might be around to follow it up.
He is.
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I thought the author of the original post might be around to follow it up.
12th April 2003
Holy necromancing necros, batman!
More scientific, since river barges are known objects that are relatively common, and giant 450+ ft monstrosities built by a 600 year old man are completely unheard of and physically impossible to construct using wood sans steel.
Actually the bible reveals that metal working was well established by Noah's day. A combination of large structure wood joinery and iron reinforcement makes such a project very possible. Our concepts of the ark come from artists renderings and not the design indicated by the biblical account. The movie, "Noah", will follow the same path as those medieval artists and support the notion of a completely unseaworthy structure that would collapse and sink under the first large wave.
How can a wooden boat be large enough and still be structurally sound, to contain all of the uniquely reproductive populations of animal organisms on earth at the time? Not only every species of cat, cow, dog and donkey, but every prehistoric species that couldn't escape the flood too since the fossil record was laid down during the flood. All theropods and sauropods and so on had to be on there too. And since the idea is to preserve animal species you have to include every genetically unique population of animal species that can't survive the flood.I don't envision the Ark having anything other than gopher wood and pitch.
No nails, no metal, no glass, no stone, no nothing.
Just gopher wood, held together by pitch.
How can a wooden boat be large enough and still be structurally sound, to contain all of the uniquely reproductive populations of animal organisms on earth at the time? Not only every species of cat, cow, dog and donkey, but every prehistoric species that couldn't escape the flood too since the fossil record was laid down during the flood. All theropods and sauropods and so on had to be on there too. And since the idea is to preserve animal species you have to include every genetically unique population of animal species that can't survive the flood.
That's millions of animal species. Not hundreds, millions! And at least 2 of each and every one had to be on the Ark. How is that possible?
I miss old JohnR7. Hope he is doing well.
How can a wooden boat be large enough and still be structurally sound, to contain all of the uniquely reproductive populations of animal organisms on earth at the time? Not only every species of cat, cow, dog and donkey, but every prehistoric species that couldn't escape the flood too since the fossil record was laid down during the flood. All theropods and sauropods and so on had to be on there too. And since the idea is to preserve animal species you have to include every genetically unique population of animal species that can't survive the flood.
That's millions of animal species. Not hundreds, millions! And at least 2 of each and every one had to be on the Ark. How is that possible?
Earth will be the only anything 'everyone' will know, apart from when they're asleep and dreaming or in the case of religious people, awake and dreaming.
Well ... for the record ... we dreamers have a saying that covers that:
Aim for Earth, get Earth; aim for Heaven, get both.
Or get disappointed. That is why I always keep my expectations low for good things, that way everything will almost always turn out better than I imaginedand I always exaggerate how bad I expect something to be so that it is almost always going to be less bad than I expected
. It is a very pessimistic way to produce happiness, but it works.
I went from complaining about things to "at my age every day is a gift". Works great.
Yeah, although it backfires for stuff that involves a lot of phobia based fear.
Thankfully I don't have that problem.
Live every day as if it's your last because one day it will be.![]()
Can't think that way either. I still have to plan for tomorrow and beyond.
I highly doubt you have no phobias. The only time people don't have phobias is if they have certain psychological disorders.