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Most Hebrew scholars believe the cubit to have been between 17½
-21½ inches long. This means that the ark would have been 450 feet
long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high if the 18 inch cubit was used.
If a larger cubit was used it would have been proportionately
longer.
The displacement tonnage of the ark, which is the weight of
water it would displace at a draught of 15 cubits, would be more
than 22,000 tons. By comparison the U.S.S.
Salem, a 716-foot-long heavy cruiser commissioned in 1949,
has a displacement tonnage of 21,500 tons. The ark's gross tonnage
which is a measure of cubic space (100 cubic feet is one gross ton)
would be 15,100 tons. The ark's total volume would have been
1,518,000 cubic feet. This would equal the
capacity of 569 modern railroad stock cars. The standard size for a
stock car is 44 feet long and a volume of 2670 cubic feet. This
would make a train more than 5 ½ miles long. The floor space for
the ark would be over 101,000 square feet
The following calculations show the amount of the ark space that
would be required to carry the stated number of animals, based on
the average size of a sheep.
40,000
animals x 11.125 ft3 = 445,000
ft3 OR
445,000 ft
3
1,518,750 ft3 × 100 = 29% of the Ark's
capacity 35,000 animals x 11.125
ft3 = 389,375 ft3
OR
389,375
ft3
1,518,750 ft3 × 100 = 25% of the Ark's
capacity 16,000 animals x 11.125
ft3 = 178,000 ft3
OR
(kind = genus taxon) 178,000 ft3
1,518,750 ft3 × 100 = 11.7% of the Ark's
capacity 2,000 animals x 11.125
ft3 = 22,250 ft3
OR
(kind = family taxon) 22,250 ft3
1,518,750 ft3 × 100 = 1.4% of the Ark's
capacity
Many writers on the subject of Noah's ark have different
estimates for the amount of animals that the ark would have to
carry. Doctors Morris and Whitcomb in their book,
The Genesis Flood,
estimate that approximately 35,000 animals were
placed on board the ark. In another book written on the subject,
Noah's Ark - A Feasibility
Study, John Woodmorappe states that only about
2,000 animals would have to be on the ark. Being
rather conservative he continues his study with the assumption that
16,000 animals could easily be cared for on the
ark.
wah..very technical...as according to NIV version..genesis 7:1-4
he was to take in 7 of each male/female of clean and 2 of each of
unclean..as according to its various kinds..7:3 mentioned the
various kinds..which means the darwin evolution theory as
mistaken..birds and animals even fishes were able to adapt to their
surroundings at different circumstances..for darwin point the birds
of his that some had larger beaks while some had smaller..he call
it evolution.but in his theory, creatures will eventually evolved
into something else totally..like ape to man..some land dwelling
dog like creature to the eventual whale..this would be wrong..
adapting to differenct settings will only cause the creature to
develop little changes even in the physical sense so it will be
able to better survive..this adaptibility and possible genetic
mutation is already mapped out by God when he created stuff...
and such a huge vessel ends up not being found at all..no
traces..no nothing..just imagine the amount of trees needed to
build the ark..
