NotSoBlindFaith writes:
... all sloth’s swim very well.
Which ocean do you propose that they swam? The Atlantic or the Pacific? What do you suppose they lived on during that long swim?
...they built a 120 foot boat in 1609, and that also stood up to the forces of the ocean.
120 feet is a far cry from 300 cubits. The practical length of a wooden ship is related to the size of the waves, since the ship flexes to fit the shape of the water. A ship almost four times longer would flex an awful lot more.
Noah’s ark has been tested and found to be nearly impossible to capsize.
No full-size model of Noah's ark has ever been tested, has it? Tests on scale models are irrelevant.
if you have ever seen the release of a predator from even a short time in confinement, they don’t stick around, there out of there the moment you open the cage door.
Yes, and they are killing and eating the herbivores from the next cage. There would certainly have been mass extinctions immediately after the animals were released.
the ark had one large window running along the side, providing adequate ventilation.
Today we have hog barns which are close to the same dimensions of the ark, so we know about caring for large numbers of animals in confined spaces. "One large window running along the side" is absolutely
not adequate ventilation. There would be very few survivors after the first few days.
Noah had other species such as dung bettles and others to help with cleanup.
Two dung beetles (I'm assuming that dung beetles are "unclean"). Two dung beetles cleaning up after two elephants sounds like a rather one-sided competition.
it would be easy enough to get rid of excess animal droppings, all that is required is to throw them out the window.
Do the math. Two thousand animals at a several pounds per day, minimum, makes several tons per day, minimum. (This is assuming that the average animal is sheep-sized, as you claim. Of course the real numbers would be much larger.) And that's spread out over, say a hundred thousand square feet of deck space?
And don't forget that they have to put the same amount into the front end too. That's a minimum of several tons of feed per day for 370 days.
You try it. You don't even need the boat. Just try taking care of 250 animals all by yourself for a year.
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