Questions to ask about the movie Noah: Where did Noah get all the material for the Ark?
- Where did Noah get all the material for the Ark?
There is a problem with acquiring all the materials for the ark. The ark was huge. Maybe there were enough logs to be had. Some say that the ark took 120 years to build. I suppose that if you spent a life time building it, then you could gather enough supplies. Someone said, “Why do you assume that it was built in the Middle East?” If it did take 120 years then it must have been in a very arid place because the logs you used to begin with would have rotted long before you finished, if it was in a humid place. But if you built in an arid place then where would one get all the trees?
The movie dealt with this problem by showing that God miraculously created a whole forest of trees from a single, powerful seed. It was like a new creation. It might have looked as the Garden of Eden was created.
I would say, that if Noah built the ark he would have had to import the logs from elsewhere, floating them downstream.
A response from a friend…
Why assume that the Middle East was desert like today? Oil from the Middle East is a fossil fuel. That means there were lots and lots of fossils or plant life to produce the oil in the first place. Sand doesn’t produce lots of plant life which turns into a fossil fuel. There is loads and loads and loads of coal under the surface here in Mongolia. Coal even feels light like wood. Given the current climate and precipitation that kind of biological life could never be produced and end up as fossils under the ground even if it took a very long time. People don’t own lawnmowers here because there is only a thin layer of grass (which doesn’t turn into coal). The earth was a different place or it moved or whatever but wasn’t exactly the same as today. Parts of the Middle East could have been lush tropical jungle. I think Solomon would have a hard time getting the same cedars from Lebanon today. We are cutting down forests at an alarming rate. Just because there are fewer trees today doesn’t mean that it was always like that.
Noah didn’t have knowledge of all the continents nor did he have a car. Would his sons and their wives follow him to a jungle that he had no experience existed? Go 100 or 500 miles…sure. 3000 miles? I highly doubt it unless somebody tipped him off.
Maybe it took 120 years. That’s an interpretation based on the language, but it doesn’t say that directly. It’s also probably not important. – a friend
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