"We're going to need a bigger boat....."

[LazyGun]

I would certainly agree with Mr. Ken Ham that an ark made of a bathtub would be very dangerous - think of the overcrowding, with the giraffes and elephants and all - Whats interesting is that, in the world of Ham,nothing is wrong with the story, just the depiction, giving those pesky secularists ammo to brainwash the children ;)

http://blogs.answersi...b-arks-are-dangerous/

[sandyRoe]

A picture of the Titanic with giraffes and elephants on the decks would serve to illustrate his stories.

[boxtops]

A bathtub ark is much more likely to grab children's imagination than a picture of a supertanker.

[bigbadmarty]

that would be a disaster of almost biblical proportions , Sandy .

[LazyGun]

^^ Nice one :)

BBM - Is that the avatar for the guy from Taxi?

[sandyRoe]

Lefka?

[bigbadmarty]

Yes its Andy Kaufman - taxi veteran and inspiration for REM's "man on the moon"

whilst Noah's Ark is a bit unlikely , what about Jonah in the belly of a whale ?

[boxtops]

There's a theory that it might be a basking shark, not a whale...

[sandyRoe]

Latka, not Lefka.

[LazyGun]

Andy Kaufman - thats the guy. Taxi was a great show.

There are lots of stories in the bible that are more than a little unlikely - Noahs Ark, Jonah and the Whale, numerous others - For me though, the fact that Ken Ham thinks that merely depicting the story with a bigger boat will solve the logical inconsistencies of the whole narrative is what made me chuckle.... ;)

As for the Jonah story- It seems feasible to me that if you got swallowed by, say, a blue whale you would have loads of room for a dining room, lounge, bedroom etc - you just wouldn't have enough time to tart it up and make it fit for visitors before being vomited out again ;)

[wildwood]

Oh dear! So how are we now going to explain to a child how the tooth fairy flies as a human-like image isn't supposed to have wings.

What a ham!

[birdie1971]

Ken Ham - “... We need instead to show children that Noah’s Ark was a real ship—a great ship—with plenty of room to fit the land animal kinds, and seaworthy to survive a global Flood...”

I kind of agree with him. Let's all have a really good think about the practicalities of one man building a massive sea-going vessel packed with at least two of every single land animal that is in existence today (less the odd dodo or two). Let us think about how they could be contained and kept healthy for 40 days and nights. Let us think about the amount of food they would require and where that could be stored and kept fresh for over a month. Let us think about how the animals' faeces would be removed every day by an eight strong crew servicing at least 16,000 animals, some of which are extremely dangerous.

So that's 2000 animals (at least) per person per day to feed, care for, and muck out. Do the maths Christians!

[mike11111]

The maths have already been done. Genesis 6 vv 27-28 (i'm making this up by the way) ;
"And the Lord said unto Noah, Thou shalt shovel up all the Sugar from the Ark, and shalt cast it upon the grounds of the earth, and thou shalt call it Birdie, for verily he talketh most of it"

[naomi24]

Mr Ham certainly knows all about 'capturing the hearts and minds of children' - and yet again Mike11111 is making a fool of himself. Magic! ;o)

[jomifl]

The largest wooden ship ever built (apart from the ark) was the 'Wyoming' at 446 feet long. This was an experimental design built for the american government and was abandoned. If it took the resources of the American defence industry and modern marine architecture to build a smaller ship how could noah have built anything resembling Mr. Hams 500 foot monster? If Noah had tried I expect that he and his helpers would still be sawing the planking even if they found enough trees big enough.
It would have to have been a miracle at the very least.

[WaldoMcFroog]

On the other hand, there is a chance that an Ark of the dimension Hambo hates so much might actually float, unlike the one his Answers In Genesis bunch are building of the supposed real dimensions, which would float in still water for a short spell, but due to the large dimensions, and the fact that the wood will have joints every 20 feet, lengthwise and hundreds of joints between the planks heightwise, even small swells would rip it apart in hours due to all the mechanical moments and torque action over that length. Next, there will be so many linear joints that as soon as the boat started to stress and torque, the joints would open instantly and leak...

[RATTER15]

Wasnt Noah 400 + years old when he was supposed have started to build this boat, I dont think he built it overnight either. Can you imagine the logistics of getting all that timber, cutting it into planks etc, let alone finding and assembling all those animals and then redistributing them again afterwards.

Not a task I would readily take on.

[naomi24]

You have to wonder why such a powerful entity didn't just zap the necessary craft into existence rather than put everyone to so much trouble.

[Duncer]

Perhaps he was busy?

[naomi24]

Or resting - again?