I'm not an expert on the minutiae of how exactly Noah built his ark...but I'm not sure what you keep harping on about. You seem to be implying that Noah didn't use steel or support plates or bolts. How do you know those things?
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Although there's evidence of steel production on a very very small scale dating back to around 1800 BC / BCE, the technology to produce the volumes of steel needed to build something like the ark didn't exist until sometime in the 19th century. (to be clear, that's 19th century AD / CE)
I'm not an expert on the minutiae of how exactly Fred and George Weasley made the Headless Hats, nor of how the pipe-weed Old Toby was made.
All three are imaginary, and the exact making of them is of little importance to the stories.
Your point is...?
Besides, didn't God tell Noah to build it out of gopher/cypress/cedar wood and cover it with pitch/tar? No mention of steel, plates or bolts.
(My what boring read the narrative of Noah in the Bible is. It's repetition after repetition after repetition...)
Oh, I dunno... the [i]Rochambeau[/i] ?
The longest wooden ship of it's kind to date. None larger have been built since.
And as the Rochambeau was so unseaworthy - despite it's metal structural supports - that it only sailed once , and was later scrapped.
Any marine engineer - certainly those clued up on maritime history - will tell you as to why no other of that size has been built since. And the Rochambeau was from the mid-late 1800s.
Remember: it was considered so unseaworthy; despite it having pumps to remove any water that leaked in.
One doesn't therefore need to be an expert of their calibre to realise why no full-scale 'Ark' recreation has ever undergone seaworthiness trials.
After all, certainly for insurance purposes, the owners of such 'Ark' recreations have to take into account public safety: in case onlookers of such trials die of laughter when they witness the world's first ship-cum-submarine .
That's why even the owners of those recreations aren't experts, either. Or even if they could be, they daren't look into the minutiae of such a construction process. But they could always ask said marine engineers: certainly those who know their maritime history ...!
Well the bible specifies wood, plus the tech for steel didn't exist back then, but then again neither did the tech to create the ribs of a ship that big. And there's the fact that wood ships nearing or surpassing 100 meters in length have always had issues with seaworthiness, despite using some steel and having large crews to pump out the water constantly as opposed to Noah's 8 people. Shall I go on?
@Some Christian Anon: no. They can't.
For all of their protestations to the contrary, their faith is very, very weak. It's so weak that it requires constant validation and material support.
Well, there's the fact that steel hadn't yet been invented, that metallurgy was still such a primitive artform it hadn't yet come up with an alloy light enough to put in a ship, the fact that the Bible clearly state Noah built the Ark, not Noah and also a local mining concern who mined the ore and coke, and a local smithing company who smelted it, and a local manufacturer who produced nails, struts and braces.
Navaros, I get the feeling you're not even an expert on movies. Doesn't stop you from haunting IMDB like a bad smell.
You seem to be implying that Noah didn't use steel or support plates or bolts.
Right! Of course he didn't. Noah wasn't totally from yesterday as you seem to be implying. I have it on good authority he used carbon-fiberreinforced polymers for all structural support elements.
You doubt that? Huh? How do you know those things?
You seem to be implying that Noah didn't use steel or support plates or bolts.
And you seem to be implying that he did.
How do you know those things?
How do YOU know these things?
*NB: I am very much aware that the Ark myth is fable and allegory.
"I'm not an expert on the minutiae of how exactly Noah built his ark..."
That would be like being an expert on how the enterprise warp drive works. It's fiction so nobody can know. You could claim the ark was made of transparent aluminum(that would solve the lighting problem of having only one window) and there is no evidence to prove otherwise.
@solomongrundy
" no-one knows what Gopher wood was it might have been kevlar. "
No, because Kevlar breaks down when exposed to water.
Confused?
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