Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch. This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
A single wooden boat once held representatives of every animal species on Earth.
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What current science says
There are millions of animal species - they couldn't fit on any boat. Mount Everest is 29,032 feet high - there isn't enough water on Earth to cover it. Freshwater and saltwater fish couldn't survive together. And there's no geological evidence of a global flood in Earth's rock layers.
What the text says
Genesis 6:14-16 gives God's instructions for building the ark, specifying its dimensions and a single window - the vessel meant to carry every kind of animal through the flood.
Three honest ways to read this passage
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As history
The text records how its authors understood the world with the knowledge they had. Read this way, a difference from modern science is a window into the ancient mind, not a failure.
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As accommodation
The text speaks to its first audience in their own terms, to make a point that isn't mainly about physics or biology. Read this way, the scientific detail is the vehicle, not the cargo.
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As contradiction
The text makes a claim about the physical world that modern findings dispute. Read this way, the difference is a genuine factual disagreement worth naming.
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