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[__ Science __ ] Could Noah’s Ark Have Been Made of Wood?

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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.
 
WOULD the Ark have a pointed bow?
Typically a pointed bow is used because the ship is being propelled, (sail, oars, propellers), forward. Do the instructions for the Ark include a bow? It was basically a raft going where currents and wind pushed it.
 
The dimensions given are the same given for any vehicle whether a car, plane, boat or ship.
We simple are not told about the details of its design.
AIG have made some intelligent assumptions about a tail fin and a bow mounted wind vane to cause the ark to line up with the wind and not be side on to the waves.

Were they on the Ark, we don't know.
 
The problem is that very large wood ships flex in even light seas. The best marine architects could not overcome that inherent problem; wooden ships even a fraction of the size listed for the ark flexed and leaked so badly that they had to be continuously pumped out to stay afloat.

It would be interesting to see, AIG build an ark according to their ideas,and see if it worked. I think I know why they won't.
 
The problem is that very large wood ships flex in even light seas. The best marine architects could not overcome that inherent problem; wooden ships even a fraction of the size listed for the ark flexed and leaked so badly that they had to be continuously pumped out to stay afloat.

Suggest you use wife search function and find the report writt on the ark by marine architects.
The ark fesability study I think it was called.. they said that the ark was a practical proposition..
It only had to remain water tight for a year, had no straining oftimbers caused by the leverage of masts or battering against waves so the working of its timbers would have been minimal
It would be interesting to see, AIG build an ark according to their ideas,and see if it worked. I think I know why they won't.
 
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