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Originally posted by LadyMischief
What exactly do you think the ancients MADE huge boats from? It's a well known fact that many biblical and contemporary peoples were accomplished mariners and used large boats in order to travel. There ARE ways to build boats without metal straps, nails, or boats. Ask people who still live in the medeterranian today and I'm sure they would be glad to fill you in. Or is the archeological evidence that people DID have large-scale seaworthy vessels thousands of years ago not convincing enough for you? I'm not saying I believe the ark story happened as it said, but the possibility of building such a vessel is most certainly not a doubtful one. If you're going to attempt to disprove biblical events, perhaps you should try a little more research of your own. Many biblical events HAVE a place in fact and archaeology proves this. As I've said before though, the events do not always occur HOW or WHY it claims they did, and some surely are flights of religous fancy.
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The size of the arc as described in the bible is impossible for a wooden vessel. It would be a fair bit over the maximum size such a vessel can have before breaking in two by itself. Saw that on Discovery
The idea of a big flood is not at all impossible or even unlikely, but the idea of a flood as big as described in the bible is. Apart from the fact that as far as I know no respected geologists have found any evidence of something like that happening, the amount of water that would have to be involved also leads to severe problems in the theory.
I think it is pretty safe to say that a flood happened, and it was exaggerated in the bible. Ofcourse, the stuff about a big boat preserving humanity is just an exaggeration of an existing concept (boats) applied within the exaggerated tale.