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by Dr. Walt Brown.
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131. Was There Room?
a . Actually, the Hebrew word for Ark (tebah) does not mean boat. It means “box,” “chest,” or “coffin.” Notice how the Ark depicted in Figure 41 on page 50 looks like a box, chest, or coffin. In the Bible, tebah occurs in only one other context besides the flood. (The “ark of the covenant” is a different Hebrew word.) Moses was saved as a baby in a pitch-covered ark, tebah (Exodus 2:3,5). Sometimes tebah is translated into a different English word, such as basket. Moses, perhaps acting as an editor, wrote the flood account. Do you suppose that Moses had a special interest in describing how a few people, his ancestors and ours, were saved in a tebah—as he was?
b . At the onset of the flood, the powerful fountains of the great deep scattered seeds and spores throughout and even above the atmosphere. They undoubtedly settled through the atmosphere for many months afterward. [See pages 110–142 for details.] Fortunately, the 46,000-mile-long fountains were at almost all latitudes. Had they followed an east-west (latitudinal) path, such as along the preflood equator, many plants we now have would have become extinct.
c . The most detailed study of the many logistical requirements for the Ark and the number of animals on board is by John Woodmorappe, Noah’s Ark: A Feasibility Study (El Cajon, California: Institute for Creation Research, 1996).