Noah’s Ark Scientifically Built.
Prof. Geo. William Dickey, the designer of the battle-ship Oregon, has written an article on Noah’s ark in which he declares that the directions and proportions are marvelously correct. In fact, the proportions are not greatly different from the present “Dreadnoughts” with more room in the hold. He tells us also that the instruction for the building given in Genesis is what a ship-builder could follow without any difficulty. He also gives us the number of feet of lumber it would take to build a ship of that size—4,153,500 feet of lumber; and he declares that the cargo which the ship would hold would be just about what the ship itself was designed to carry. He says the ark was a vessel of such dimensions that the mere fact that it was built argues a very advanced knowledge and experience in the constructive art on the part of the contemporaries of Noah; further, that in 1609 a Dutchman by the name of Peter Jansen made a ship of the same proportion as Noah’s ark only smaller, at which every one laughed while he was building it, but after it was launched it proved to be superior to any of the other ships of the time, so that many other boats in the Dutch navy were built like it. They were called “Noah’s arks.”