(discussing the integrity of Noah's Ark)
The cypress wood(and all pre-Flood wood) that Noah and his helpers used, was of much harder substance than wood we use in the 21st century.
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Is it me, or do bible literalists come up with more and more bizarre claims every year? Must be a Kent Hovind fan.
The thing is, I can't tell if this is a poe or if this is a real fundie.
Wouldn't stronger wood also be denser and therefore heavier putting even more stress on the ark's structure, making it more sea unworthy than what one would expect for it's size alone?
And your evidence consists of ...?
Something you desperately pulled out of your arse? Yeah, I thought so.
@[b]Øyvind:
I'm waiting for breachman's brilliant and well-supported treatise on how a bronze-age nomad constructed nails capable of holding the superwood together. I'm sure he has an excellent theory with lots of solid evidence.
Oh! That explains why one often hears such sayings as "back in the old days, men were men." Cuz, you know, back then, when a guy "got wood," it was sooooo much harder than what is available now. (Sorta makes one nostalgic, doesn't it)
Jezebel's Evil Sister wins.
So, if chickens could undergo such a startling transformation in only a century, it is hypothetically possible that Cypress trees from tree-farms today would have had a much different wood quality than Cypress trees harvested in the Good Old Days [TM].
But battleship-steel hard? I find that hard to believe.
According to breachman, the pre-flood Cypress was harder than modern-day Ironbark, an Australian tree so called because many an early settler's axe or saw was no match for this seemingly indestructibe tree.
Even with access to modern tree felling and woodworking equipment, Ironbark is consisdered a hard dense wood that is difficult to work and is therefore used mostly for heavy engineering construction, poles, piles, shipbuilding etc.
So either Noah had access to tools far superior to our 21st Century equipment, or breachman's claim is rubbish.
Hey, this is a pretty sensible claim compared to one home-schooling book I read. They claimed that God miraculously made Noah's Ark bigger on the inside than it was on the outside so all the animals could fit.
This was from a homeschooling book, so I think it's safe to say that this idea was not developed by a Poe. Someone out there thinks Noah's Ark was a TARDIS. I wonder if it could travel through time, as well?
They've tried building that ark thingy. Since we know what a cubic is we have the dimension. it's about 450 feet long. In one case they added iron strapping as the woods not strong enough to tie together and support itself, the iron strapping still couldn't hold it together.
Hence Ark Apologists are now trying to make excuses
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