Aineo wrote:All you have done is impugn the integrity of scientists who have actually done the research into how the ark would have reacted. The fact you do not know anything about shipbuilding only shows your own opinions are more important to you than experimentation. Wooden ships have sailed the seas since long before you existed. Many "experts" thought Thor Heyerdahl was a lunatic until he actually sailed a reed boat 4300 miles from South America to the Pacific Islands. As to bracing, even iron ships require the outer plates and decks be braced. Also take a skein of yarn and make a rope out of it and then hit yourself with this rope, it hurts just as much as that small iron rod you referred, or take a flexible branch like that of a weeping willow and you can inflict as much damage on a human being as you can with your iron rod. The rod will bruise but the rope made out of yarn and the willow branch can cut the flesh to the bone.
As to your judging what is and is not Christian, since you don't seem to know anything about Christianity I don't think you are in a position to judge me.
Heyerdahl's ship was not over 400 feet long and did not house a pair or seven of each pair of Kinds from all over the world, alonmg with all the food and water that they would need for a year.
The largest wooden ship ever actually built was much smaller than the ark was said to have been, leaked like a seive, and required steel bracing just to stay together.