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Originally posted by punkworld
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.
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Yes but he's essentially saying that construction of large vessels was impossible then, which it was not. The ark itself in the way it's described in the bible may not be possible, but as with many things in history, the liklihood of exaggeration is extreme.
We're in agreement there
