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Podcast: Wrestling with Theology
Episode: Moment of Meditation: Massive Ark (Genesis 6:15)
Description: This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. (Genesis 6:15)
If you have been to the Ark Encounter in Kentucky, you know that the Ark was massive. Answers in Genesis have made a wonderful full-scale recreation of Noah’s Ark. If you have not been there, I encourage you to go.
A cubit is between 14 and 18 inches in length. The Ark was around 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. One and a half football fields in length. Half the width. Five stories hi...