Dimensions of the Ark
God spells out to Noah the dimensions of the ark: 300 cubits by 50 by 30. Using the longer "Egyptian royal cubit" of 529mm, this works out at 158.7m long by 26.45m wide by 15.87m high (520 feet 8 inches long by 86 feet 9.3 inches wide by 52 feet 0.8 inches high). This ship is to be made from Gopher wood. This ship also have 3 layers that could accommodate every pair of animal on board along with their food. Just imagine a full sized elephant, giraffe, horses, rhinos, hippos and other heavy weighted animals all in one ship made of wood. But not only that, the ark actually contains all of the species of the world as it is now. So therefore the arc contains Noah and his sons and their wives so 8 people; 17,400 birds; 12,000 reptiles; 9,000 mammals; 5,000 amphibians; and 2 Million insects. On top of it all, they brought with them food and water enough for a whole year. WOW!!! so excluding the insects which are very small, there is more than 43,000 species on board and the Ark still have enough space for food and water...for a year.. how amazing is that? That's really a miracle.
Let's now compare this to one of the biggest ship in history; Titanic.
Titanic's dimensions is this : Length - 882 feet; Width; 92 feet; Height 104 feet; and this ship is made of steel. It's total capacity; 3547 people including the crew and enough probation for 2 weeks. Wait, what? How can the Ark which is relatively smaller than Titanic have bigger capacity? It actually carried 10 times more than the Titanic? This is virtually impossible but of course with God nothing is impossible; that's what they say.
This is the size comparison of the ark against other ships. It should look like this:
The Great Migration
Before and after the flood, the species of the land spread throughout the globe. It will be very absurd to think that all animals are in just one place while the rest of the world are barren. Most of these animals live thousand miles away from where Noah is. So when God decided to destroy the earth, thousands of animals traveled towards the Ark. That also happened after the animals disembarked the Ark. However, there's not enough evidence to prove this.
This is the map of the world. It was claimed that thousands of years ago, the world is just one continent called Pangaea. There are land bridges that connect all of this land together. This land bridges have been used by the animals to go to the ark. After the flood, this same land bridges are the means of the animals to spread onto the globe. Without it, these animals will only remain in one place. So basically due to this great migration, some animals died on the journey back to their current place now. Now take a look at this map.
Kangaroos are a unique species only found in Australia. So basically, these kangaroos will travel from middle east which is the location of the Ark towards Australia through the land bridges. Somewhere between the middle east and Australia there should be a fossil that will prove about this migration. From the ark, they will keep on hopping and they may reproduce along the way and thus fossils should be found. However, there is not a single one fossil found in between this 2 lands. Why? Where are the fossils? Why is there no evidence of the migration?
Noah's Neighbors
There is a riddle that goes this way. "There are 5 birds on a nest, one was shot. How many left?" The answer to this riddle is none as the remaining birds flew away. That is very logical. If the person beside you will get shot, you will definitely react to it either you will run tokeep yourself safe or you will try to help him. However, the story of the ark contradicts to this.
During the time when God said he will destroy the ark, Noah tried to preach the people about this and no one believed him and so God decided to destroy everyone but Noah. So he have been told to build the ark so that he and his family will be saved. But building a ship with the dimensions that God ordered is very impossible for just 4 people. Even if their wives help them it will still not be enough. Facing this dilemma, theists explain that Noah could have hired laborers to help him build the ark. This information is not written in the Bible but this is the best explanation that theist could come up with in regarding to build the Ark.
Considering this, building the ark could now be possible, However, it will raise a question, Why would Noah's laborers did not get into the ark? I understand that Noah have been ridiculed and being laughed at according to the Bible but if you notice someone building an ark in the middle of the mountain won't you wonder why? Will you not ask about it?
Whether Noah hired laborers or not, it will always raise a question on why is he building an ark? His neighbors will see the animals crowding in the ark and they will definitely be fascinated. They will definitely see animals that are not available in their area. There is a great chance that the people will believe. Don't you think they will ask? And if someone asked Noah about it, then he will tell God's plan of destruction. He will not lie about it because he is righteous and he preached about the God even before building the Ark. You may be skeptical about it but, you will always choose to preserve yourself. Consider this, if someone tells you that there is a bomb on the cafeteria, will you still go there and it knowing it could explode anytime? Definitely not.
