Noah’s Ark

The Bible says the Ark was about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high (Genesis 6:15).

Put into perspective, this is the equivalent volume of 522 railroad livestock cars, each of which can hold 240 sheep. Assuming that the average size of an animal on the Ark was smaller than a sheep, it’s easy to visualise the Ark having space for the approximately 16,000 animals needed to represent the various kinds, with plenty of room left over for supplies! God told Noah to bring pairs of each “kind” (or basic type) of land-dwelling, air-breathing animal onto the Ark (Genesis 7:2, 3, 8, 22).

This requirement would have included the dinosaurs – animals were probably represented by young adults. From a biblical perspective, dinosaurs not only lived with man before the Flood, but they also survived the Flood to live with man after it (Genesis 8:29; Job 40).

On May 18, 1980, when Mount St Helens erupted it melted snow on the mountain, and when the melted snow mixed with the volcanic debris, it formed huge and destructive mudflows. The mudflows reached speeds of 90 miles per hour, picking up sediment and rock and devastating 150 sq. miles of forest. These mudflows laid down enormous amounts of sediment covering the area like a stack of pancakes, resulting in a sediment pile up to 600 feet thick in places. Within five years the layers of strata near Mount St Helens had hardened into solid rock! Another eruption occurred on March 19, 1982 creating even more mudflows, which eroded large canyons as they scoured the countryside. One of these canyons is now called “Little Grand Canyon” and is a 1/40 scale model of the real one. This new canyon even has side canyons, which look essentially the same as those seen elsewhere.

Creation scientists believe the Grand Canyon was formed in the same fashion; the rock layers were laid down during the worldwide catastrophic Flood and volcanic upheaval of Noah’s day (Genesis 6-8), and the canyon itself was carved in a later, post-Flood catastrophe. It doesn’t take long to form rock from sediments, as shown by Mount St Helens; it just takes the right conditions.

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