If you find it appealing to worship a god that would commit such acts of prejudging and murder then you need to seek a mental health professional right away, you are probably a psychopath, and should be locked up.
Your (non) skills as an on-line mental health professional are noted.
You know what I'm really looking for? I'm looking for detailed relevant responses to the explanations provided for the livability of the ark. You know, like the ventilation solution. Anyone want to refute the solution that was provided? Now that would be interesting to read and not this constant monotonous prmieval mindleess and endless chanting.
Noah's Ark Feasabilty Study
http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=402
As much fun as personal attacks are, I'd like to point back a few pages to
I_Ratant's excellent post about ship building before the age of steel, in particular his point about how to maintain shape and function using line to stiffen and support the structure. Your ventilation problem is irrelevant to the ship maintaining its shape, and seakeeping qualities.
Were Noah to collect sufficient timbers and beams to build to stated dimensions, he's still got a couple of problems to solve with keel and hull and frame stiffness that wood and perfect jointing alone won't solve. (Note: in the age of sail, miles of line were used to support the masts). Comparisons to steel aged ships of a similar size are irrelevant, which I hope you'd think was obvious. We don't build skyscrapers out of wood, nor ships of the size of the ark. The material lacks some key strength and stiffness qualities. If you don't believe me, look into any undergraduate Strength of Materials text book, in the appendix for tensile strength of materials, from wood to aluminum to steel, and note the significant difference.
Look first at the ark's keel. Unlikely that he'd have a six hundred foot long timber handy for a single beam keel, Noah would be linking a series of beams/logs together. Regardless of how he does that, the middle of his structure is in need of a support, as it is the base of two different cantilevers, just for the simple two dimensional solutions. (See I Ratant's dimensions, about a third of the ark's stated dimensions).
One way to stiffen the keel that would be to add a series of linked beams, more near the center, none at the ends, to the point that you'd have something shaped like a long, skinny American football. The result is like doublers helping to carry the load. But that doesn't answer the mail on torsion and stiffness.
Look at the mast support example, and I propose a cat's cradle of line running athwartships, at various angles, to resist the twisting that results from actual loads of a ship in the water, be the seas calm or rough.
You end up with literally hundreds of sections of hemp line, from bow to stern, belowdecks, each of which has to be securely anchored at each end, so that the ark doesn't twist apart. Frames alone won't support the torsional loads.
With the flex of the timbers, regardless of how well the lines support the frames, beams and bulkheads, you cannot escape leakage. Water is supposed to be on the outside of the ark, not on the inside.
How to resolve that?
I suppose Noah could load all of the elephants into the hold, and into the bilges, with the task of dipping their trunks into the bilgewater, sucking up and blowing out water into whatever piping system Noah has added to drain the bilgewater overboard. He could also direct the monkeys to function as his bucket brigade, divided into three watches. No dog watch, of course, these are monkeys. They'd doubtless have fun clambering all over that three dimensional spider's web of hempen support belowdecks.
Whatever.
I'll further suggest another reason, beyond timber scavenging, that one would not likely find the ark. After all those days at sea, ("Where's the rum gone?") Noah and his folks would have salvaged all of the hemp ... and smoked it.
The ark falls apart for lack of internal support.
OK, sorry for the shaggy dog story, but at least the dog made it to the ark.
DR
