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The Ra II, the reed boat Thor Heyerdahl used to cross the Atlantic, was also 12 meters long and was only at sea for 2 months. Here she is: Figuring a cubit to be about half a meter, that would make your 150 meter Ark about 12 times longer than the Ra II. It would also make your Ark nearly 2000 times more massive (mass depending on volume, and volume increasing by the cube of the increase in length, I believe).* I'll let lyx2no do the actual displacement calculations.Regardless, just because a 12 meter reed boat was seaworthy for a couple of months**, that doesn't mean that a reed boat with 2000 times the mass could last for a year, even assuming that you could build such a thing. Floating a 1 oz. boat made of newspaper down a creek doesn't make me believe that I could take a paper boat the size of a battleship across the Atlantic.That boat don't float.*I'm fudging a little bit here, as the Ra II had different proportions than the supposed Ark would have, tapering at bow and stern. Given that the Ark is described as pretty much box-like, it would actually be even more massive than a scaled-up Ra II**I didn't take the time to go back and see how long the Ra II lasted after the trip. So sue me.

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-John LydonWhat's the difference between a conspiracy theorist and a new puppy? The puppy eventually grows up and quits whining.
-Steven Dutch

That fossilization is rare doesn't mean that it's impossible. Besides, as Coyote rightly points out, fossils have nothing to do with the Flood legend anyway. In fact, how can there be fossils at all, if the Earth is only 6000 years old? When last I checked, it takes at least 10,000 years or so for a fossil to form.Regardless, the topic of this thread is the total lack of sea-worthiness of the Ark as described in the Bible. Other aspects of the Ark story that involve their own glaring impossibilities belong on different threads.And will you please learn something instead of doing cut-n-pastes from creationist websites?

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I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die.
-John LydonWhat's the difference between a conspiracy theorist and a new puppy? The puppy eventually grows up and quits whining.
-Steven Dutch