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[ The Scientific Case for Creation > (To locate specific authors, consult the index.) > 131.   Was There Room?]

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 40 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. Don’t 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 . 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).   

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