Monday, May 6, 2013

Bible Trivia: Row, Row, Row Your Boat

In Genesis 7:1-6, god sends flood waters to wipe out his creation.  Noah, his family, and a pair of every animal on the earth board the ark.  At the time Noah was:

A:  250 years old

B:  300 years old

C:  600 years old

D:  950 years old



 where's Noah, can you find him?

 ANSWER:  C


The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”
And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.

 Wholly crap!  600 years old!  And he built an 450 foot boat!

 imagine your grandpa building this

 This boat is huge!  Look at this thing in the history of ship building:



 Now ignoring for the moment that this probably is not a real story and that the laws of physics indicate it's impossible that such a boat could float, just consider his age alone.

 Jiroemon Kimura lived to be 116. 

Noah would have been five times older.  It's seemingly impossible to guess out what Noah must have really looked like at age 600.

 eh, good enough

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