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Could the Ark have held all the animals? Easily. A few humans, some perhaps hired by others, could build a boat (a). large enough to hold representatives of every air-breathing land animal—perhaps 16,000 animals in all. (Of course, sea creatures did not need to be on the Ark. Nor did insects or amphibians. Only mammals, birds, reptiles, and humans. Much plant life survived the flood in a surprisingly simple way (b)). The Ark, having at least 1,500,000 cubic feet of space, was adequate to hold these animals, their provisions, and all their other needs for one year (c).

Since the flood, many offspring of those on the Ark would have become reproductively isolated to some degree due to mutations, natural genetic variations, and geographic dispersion. Thus, variations within a kind have proliferated. Each variation or species we see today did not have to be on the Ark. For example, a pair of wolflike animals were probably ancestors of the coyotes, dingoes, jackals, and hundreds of varieties of domestic dogs. (This is microevolution, not macroevolution, because each member of the dog kind can interbreed and has the same organs and genetic structure.) Could the Ark have held dinosaurs and elephants? Certainly, if they were young.

The Ark is frequently depicted as a small boat by those who have not bothered to check its dimensions. It was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits tall. While there were several ancient cubits (generally the distance from a man’s elbow to the extended fingers), a cubit was typically 1.5 feet or slightly longer. The 500-foot-long Ark would snugly fit in a football stadium and would be taller than a four-story building.

The Ark did not look like a boat. It had a flat bottom, was not streamlined, and had windows in its top. The flat bottom would have made loading on dry land possible. Streamlined shapes are important only for ships designed for speed and fuel efficiency—neither of which applied to the Ark. Windows in the side might be nice for the passengers (or for the proverbial giraffes to stick their necks out), but side windows limit the depth of submergence and the maximum load. Riding low in the water gives a boat great stability.

a. Actually, the Hebrew word for Ark (tebah) does not mean boat. It means “box,” “chest,” or “coffin.” In the Bible, tebah occurs in only one other context besides the flood. (The “ark of the covenant” is a different Hebrew word.) Moses was saved as a baby in a pitch-covered ark, tebah (Exodus 2:3,5). Sometimes tebah is translated into a different English word, such as basket. Moses, perhaps acting as an editor, wrote the flood account. Do you suppose that Moses had a special interest in describing how a few people, his ancestors and ours, were saved in a tebah—as he was?

b. At the onset of the flood, the powerful fountains of the great deep scattered seeds and spores throughout and even above the atmosphere. They undoubtedly settled through the atmosphere for many months afterward. [See http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/HydroplateOverview2.html#wp1197621] Fortunately, the 46,000-mile-long fountains were at almost all latitudes. Had they followed an east-west (latitudinal) path, such as along the preflood equator, many plants we now have would have become extinct.

c. The most detailed study of the many logistical requirements for the Ark and the number of animals on board is by John Woodmorappe, Noah’s Ark: A Feasibility Study (El Cajon, California: Institute for Creation Research, 1996).

The Seemingly Impossible Events of a Worldwide Flood Are Credible, If Examined Closely.

[From “in the Beginning” by Walt Brown http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/EarthSciences18.html#wp1798250]

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