Noah:

There are many Noah type legends using similar foundations: Christian/Jews have 2 accounts that differ on the same Noah [one is the Moses' account & the other is from the Book of Enoch]; the Chinese had Fa-he; the Mexican had one man, his wife & their children; - the Greeks had Deucalion; the Hindu had Manu; the Polynesians had eight escaping the flood; the early American Indians had one, three & eight saved on a boat; Greenland has the earth's axis tilting & all drowning except two

Wood is not the best material for shipbuilding.

• The longest wooden ships today are about 300 feet, reinforced with iron straps.

• The ark was about 450 feet long [Gen. 6:15].

• There are so many issues involved that the ark should have been many times larger than a modern day cruise ship

There are more animals on that wooden ship than in any modern day zoo: one might wonder why God would instruct Noah to have an equal amount of males & females: what farmer or rancher in his right mind would keep so many territorial battling males, 7 bulls, 7 roosters & a host of other dominating males, confined to one dwelling - these combating males could destroy a battleship

• - Genesis 6: 19 & 20 first states two of every thing: of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the arc, to keep them alive ... of the fowls after their kind, & of cattle after their kind, & of every creeping thing in the earth after his kind, two of every sort But the numbers change in Genesis 7:2 of every clean beast, thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male & his female, & of beasts that are not clean, by two, the male & his female

• Some, like sloth & penguins, can't travel overland very well, but Noah must have gotten them also, all the while, building that ark - a lot of world traveling towards both the North & South poles had to have taken place before the flood - then there is returning them to their natural inhabitant

• & Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; & took of every clean beast, & of every clean fowl, & offered burnt offerings on the altar. cuts the animal population by 1/4

They are not on that ark for 40 days & nights of God's angry rain, but a year & ten days - Gen.7: 11, Noah's 600th year, 17th day of the 2nd month, to Gen.8: 13 & 14, Noah's 601^st year, the 27th day of the second month; thus the animals would have been in very poor shape once they landed, unless they got regular exercise - how were the unfathomable thousands of animals exercised regularly by 8 people;

& of course there is the food problem; the amount of non-spoilable food would be enormous - not just for the voyage of all these occupants, but for a very long time after landing the ark as well. Non-perishable sheep burgers for the Noah family alone, 3 times a day, would amount to well over 9,000 for that trip. A massive amount of fresh water is needed, not just for all the inhabitants, but also for a great many animals which must live in fresh water [like hippos] whose water living quarters must also be maintained/filtered

• the deer family & such grazers would have a long wait for the grass family to grow after the flood [a lot of seed & plant life had to be upon that ark]; & there is the problem of growing vegetation, trees, & other plant like products 150 days after the flood - 5 months - Gen.7:24 "the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred &  fifty days." -  8:3 "the waters returned from off the earth continually: & after the end of the one hundred & fifty days the waters were abated. - thus the cat family would have to catnap for many years for 1 year's worth of nourishment from deer & other prey;

• then there are the creepers, who also have to eat; [but only brought in as two's of each kind]

• - some, like koalas & many insects, require a special diet; koalas require fresh eucalyptus leaves, & silkworms eat nothing but fresh mulberry leaves, which means a lot more than one species of each plant must be stored for each animal/insect. For the many thousands of plant species there is at least one animal or insect that eats only that one kind of plant; [where to grow & control the plant life which also needs sunlight & water as well]

• - parasitoid wasps only attack living prey; most herbivorous insects require fresh food, requiring much more than just 2 of the creepers.

• - some cave-dwelling arthropods can't survive in less than 100% relative humidity

• - then there are the carnivores which need small mammals, insects, fish, or aquatic invertebrates. Again, more than the 2's of the creepers & other prey

• - snakes will eat only live foods - again more than the two's, or seven's  

The ark would need to be well ventilated to disperse the heat, humidity, & the waste products [the deadly methane, carbon dioxide, & ammonia].

• The urine & dung alone, from all the inhabitants, would take a large staff for the daily clean up [yet the port hole is not supposedly opened for 40 days & is in the upper deck of this 3 level ark, thus the waste also has to be carried upward - adding more work & time to survival duties]

• Then there is the need for sun light while they are enclosed in the ark for over a year

• How was fresh air circulated throughout the structure

A week = 604,800 seconds - Noah had only seven days to load the Ark [Gen. 7:4-10]. Although there must have been more than 15,900 animals boarding the ark, that number would work out to 1 animal being boarded every 38 seconds, night & day for seven straight days - no sleep.

Some must get a laugh at God's humor in this saga:

1st there are just 3 sons with their 3 spouses, plus Noah & his spouse, upon ark - Genesis 7:7&13: in the selfsame day entered Noah, & Shem, & Ham, & Japheth, the sons of Noah, & Noah's wife, & the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark

• Gen.6: 10 - Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, & Japheth - not 4 sons & no mention of another son's wife

• After the flood, the unforeseen Eber's wife (the region beyond) shows up - the dead son's wife - Genesis 10:21 unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born - why say the brother of Japheth - why not the other son. ARE SHEM & JAPHETH BROTHERS? ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE, THE LAW IS FOR THE ELDEST BROTHER, JAPHETH, TO BREED THE WIDOWED SISTER, & DEFINITELY NOT THE YOUNGER BROTHER.

• Shem impregnates Eber's spouse (who never was on the arc to carry out the lineage - 2 years after the flood - Gen.10: 25 - & unto Eber were born two sons

• - if this is a parable, then this indicates that something thought to be dead is now revived

• Why was Eber's birth never recorded & yet mentioned later

What unspeakable physical act did Noah's son, Ham, do to Noah. This very immoral act far exceeds that of Lot's incestuous acts - so horrific - that it cannot be documented by the Biblical scribes.  Noah was too intoxicated to stop Ham from performing this act, but not too inebriated to remember to curse Ham & all of his generations afterwards