There’s a biblical ark that rode out the Flood, and it was no bathtub. Noah built it somehow, with or without some mysterious ancient technology.
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very interesting article - liked these 2 parts:
Noah, whether by acumen or divine guidance, may have selected an elevated site where temperate conditions could support a pine forest. Pine, a possible candidate for the mysterious “gopherwood,” is especially suited to both shipbuilding and pitch production. This original location is unknown to us today because “the ark moved about” (
Genesis 7:18) before finally coming to rest in the Middle East. Gopherwood doesn’t have to be a desert acacia, or even a cedar of Lebanon. The very fact that gopherwood is never mentioned again suggests the wood had vanished too. It may have been alive and well on the other side of the world, be it Douglas fir, yellow pine, or even teak.
Once afloat, the depth of the water would average almost two miles (three km),
6 shielding the ark from tectonic activity. Deep water is safe in a tsunami.
7 The ark had to survive the ocean surface, not the massive sediment flows at the seabed.
But the surface was no picnic either. Later in the voyage, God sent a wind (
Genesis 8:1), and wind creates waves, so rough seas are at least part of the five month voyage. Since the proportions of the ark (
Genesis 6:15) are ideal
8 for an ocean-going vessel, it was obviously meant to behave like a ship. With such proportions, the necessary stability and sea kindliness can be achieved even for extreme seas,
9 by a suitable coordination of hull shape and load distribution.