Wendee,
Looks like a boat, all right. Pointy bow and all that. Pointy bows are
designed to move through the water efficiently. As a sailor, I know that a
pointy bow, in combination with a proper set of sails and minimum wetted
surface area, is great to make a boat go fast. Sleeping in the forward
berths is another matter: lots of shoulder room but not much room for the
feet. The point I want to make is that pointy bows don't do much for
storage capacity but are great for speed.
Ask yourself, why would Noah build a boat that would "slice through the
water." Did God tell him to build a "fast" boat? IMHO, to optimize
carrying capacity, Noah would not likely have selected the shape shown on
the web page. He would probably have built a "barge" with square ends.
Doesn't take a scientist to figure this out! On a more serious note, how do
we know what to look for if we don't know what it looks like that we are
looking for?
Chuck Vandergraaf
Pinawa, MB
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From: Wendee Holtcamp[SMTP:wendee@greendzn.com]
Sent: Tuesday July 25, 2000 12:54 PM
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Noah's Ark
Does anyone know anything about the scientific validity of any of
this? My pastor sent this to me. (ugh).
next, the site I told you about the amateur archeologist, with whom
I am
fascinated, and on many points am inclined to suppose that he is
definitely
on to something. I just wish I could personally verify or falsify
these
things myself. Take some time to explore the site and you can see
that it
seems amateurish, low budget, not connected with any prestigious
institution, but on many points it seems to me to be credible and
substantive.
http://www.wyattmuseum.com/NOAHSARK3.htm
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~~ Wendee Holtcamp -- ecowriter@earthlink.net ~~
~~ Environment/Travel/Science Writer ~~ www.greendzn.com ~~
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a
piece
of the continent, a part of the main. -- John Donne
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