These were very ingenious, accomplished builders, experts in crafting metals, ceramics, and other materials - but without the industrialized manufacturing made possible with electricity and heat engines (i.e., steam or combustion engines) implying high-precision machine tools. The Egyptians could drill and cut granite the Greeks could build huge ships with furniture-like precision. An appropriate estimate for the level of technology in Noah’s day might be something on par with ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Chinese, etc. They excelled at building big things in difficult materials but were not industrialized in the modern sense. The civilizations immediately after the Babel dispersion give us some clues. There were also no other survivors in ships (or space-stations for that matter!). The ark was made of wood, not metal, which is better for ship hulls. There are limits to the technology of the pre-Flood world. With such long life spans, technology could rapidly increase in the 1,656 years from Adam to the Flood.īut let’s not get too carried away. His world had abundant resources (particularly timber and food), and bronze and steel technology had been around for generations ever since Tubal-Cain first got into working bronze and iron ( Genesis 4:22). He probably had the help of his grandfather Methuselah, 1 who lived to see the ark constructed.
Noah should have been extremely wealthy having lived 480 years before the project even began. Noah and sons had other things to focus on, so it makes sense that labor was hired, or that processed materials like sawn lumber were purchased. Resources: Did Noah need help? A pit-sawing team (of two) would take many decades to cut the wood for one ark. This is ideal for a larger-than-average wooden ship that takes a decade or more to assemble, not just the typical year or so. Here are two: pitch stabilizes the moisture content of the wood and acts as a preservative. That’s a lot of pitch, so no doubt God had a good reason. The difference here is that God directed Noah to apply the icky goo inside as well as out. Wooden ships were routinely waterproofed in this way. The pitch for Noah’s ark was probably not bitumen but the gum-based resins extracted from certain trees (such as pitch pine). It makes more sense that Noah spent a lot of this time in preparation until, with everything prepared, he organized a serious barn-raising. At that pace, Noah would still be chipping away at the stern while the bow had been exposed to the weather for a century. That’s a long time to build a boat-too long, in fact. It’s not about lifespans, but about God giving Noah 120 years warning of the Deluge. There’s a problem with that: every patriarch from Noah to Amram broke God’s new “ruling.” Noah made it to 950 years of age, his son Shem was 600, and even Abraham died “full of years” at 175. In Genesis 6:3, the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” Some take this as God setting the human lifespan to 120 years. Time: Noah had plenty of time - 120 years in fact. In that case, could Noah get through the whole arkĬonstructing an ark of biblical proportions would take time, resources, and Does this mean God had to suspend the laws Noah built it somehow, with or without some mysterious ancient technology
There’s a biblical ark that rode out the Flood, and it was no bathtub.
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