Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Where did Noah get the lumber to build what would have been, by far, the largest wooden boat ever built?

His "ark" would have had been bigger than the schooner Wyoming, built in 1909, which was the largest doented wooden boat ever built at 329 feet long (but still 100-200 feet shorter than the biblical length of the "ark"), and it needed iron cross bracing. Were there forests nearby with trees big enough for the mive timbers and beams needed for such a boat? Did he have a crane to move such timbers, and put them in place? Where did the huge bolts, screws, or nails needed to build such a gigantic boat come from? Who made them? Could some Bronze Age guy with a hammer and a handsaw, living near a few scrubby cypress or cedar trees (there is no such thing as "gopher" wood) really do this?

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