There certainly could have been an ark, though not as large as the one described in the Bible because modern physics and engineering shows that a wooden craft that large could not withstand the stresses of wave action. No wooden ship anywhere near that large has ever been built (even by the most skilled shipbuilders, let alone a 600 year-old man and his three sons, ha ha!) because it can’t be done. Also, the presence of the ark doesn’t answer the question of how the pairs of released animals survived on a flood-ravaged world. We know now that to save a species from extinction is virtually impossible if you have only two specimens. Turning them loose into a land that’s been under water for a year and making them somehow travel thousands of miles to their proper habitat wouldn’t help much. I’m not saying there was never a guy who survived a flood by taking some livestock in a boat and riding it out. But the story as written in the Bible is clearly impossible. People of the past might have believed it, but any educated person today should know that it never happened as written in the Bible.

Dave,

We’ll find out soon enough when they did up the Ark. What are you going to have to say then?