by VM44 18 Replies latest watchtower bible
I found this at http://skepdic.com/comments/noahcom.html
Anybody who's worked on wooden boats will tell you that you can't just seal their seams with pitch but must painstakingly caulk (drive pitch-soaked yarn into) every external seam; they'll also tell you that joining the pieces of wood together takes skill and (in the Bronze Age rare and very expensive) metal fasteners, at least for non-trivial vessels.
He used the elephants.
That actually solves both the bilge pump issue and the ballast issue...
Assuming that elephants are considered "unclean", there would be seven of them, right? Put the elephants on the lowest level as ballast and let them pump out the water...
edit: ooops...an error in the solution. There were seven of the "clean" animals. If elephants were "unclean" there would only be two. Not enough to handle the ballast or the leaking water
(as if any of this really happened to begin with...)
Remember that he coated the interior with pitch.
At that time, pitch was much closer to perfection, and thus no water would have passed through it.
In later years, pitch (due to original pitch sin) was farther from perfection and thus more modern wooden boats have leaked.
This is all Bible-based, of course.
The bilge pumps would be operated by a system of cogwheels attached to a treadmill. The treadmills would be powered by horses.
Please don't make any jokes about my working for the WTBS writing department.
Forget leaks. I'd like to see the seaworthiness of the ark against a rouge wave. Surely, with the massive oceanic and continental geological deformations that occurred via the Flood (as the JW Flood geology posits), there would have been many waves taller than the ark that would pound the boat's midsection. Ke-RAAACHKKKK!!!
Leolaia, would Noah know how to put an "expansion joint" in the center section of the ark, like they do in large freighters today?
That would have been some great technology in those days.
Hubert
Wooden ship building reached its limit in the mid 1800s. Ships of any great length and some (one maybe) as long as the ark tended to twist and the seams leaked. The ark doesn't appear to have a design suitable for withstanding the stresses on such a large hull. A bilge pump would be useless in a hull as leaky as a sieve.
god used his magic. just like he used it to help him get the wood. gather animals. keep his wife happy. seal the door. make it rain enough to cover the earth. keep the salt water animals from dying. get rid of all that shit. land them on the mountains of arrat. get the kangas back to austarlia. etc...etc... etc.
That actually solves both the bilge pump issue and the ballast issue...
Assuming that elephants are considered "unclean", there would be seven of them, right? Put the elephants on the lowest level as ballast and let them pump out the water...
edit: ooops...an error in the solution. There were seven of the "clean" animals. If elephants were "unclean" there would only be two. Not enough to handle the ballast or the leaking water
Pink elephants were clean.
