Product Description

This book on Noah's Ark is a one-of-a-kind compendiuum of information about animal-care methods, food-preservation techniques, animal-handling techniques, etc. It discusses in great detail how 8 people could have cared for 16,000 animals using pre-scientific technology. Whether or not the reader believes in the Bible or not, he or she can be fully confident that my book conveys substantive information about the workability of Noah's Ark and its inhabitants.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1073172 in Books
• Published on: 1996-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 298 pages

Review
A scholarly but fascinating treatment that is thoroughly documented. -- Bible-Science News, November 1996

It has just the sort of facts and details that kids find fascinating...be advised to read NOAH'S ARK. -- Reason and Revelation, May 1996

The book...seeks to answer the more mundane questions of Noah's voyage... -- Natural History, October 1997

These critics often resort to ridicule...Woodmorappe, however, invariably finds credible evidence which rather causes the critics to appear foolish. -- Creation Research Society Quarterly, March 1998

Using a database and a Bible, the book posits a mechanical answer to any question one could imagine regarding Noah's logistics... -- Harper's Magazine, November 1996

From the Author
Correcting the Critics

The critics' remarks (such as the Bible writers being "goatherders", and the Flood account being "a campfire story") not only display their prejudices, but also speak volumes about their abysmal ignorance about this whole subject.

The rapid origin of new species (in thousands of years or less) is not speculation but demonstrated fact, and is not at all a concession to evolution. The notion about me having Noah standing behind buckets while horses urinate, or post-Flood animals needing to dig out corpses, are nothing more than ridiculous misrepresentations of what I actually wrote. These are also nothing more than false rumors about my book that have been going around for some time, and their appearance in the negative reviews also makes it doubtful if the critics have even bothered to read my book. It is not I, but the critics, who are indulging in fantasy.

Statements about the Ark account violating Occam's razor sound very intellectual, but are widely off the mark. In fact, throughout my work, I have scrupulously avoided speculative scenarios, ad hoc processes, and weakly-supported conjectures. All of the solutions to the putative problems with the Ark account in this book are based on a solid study of low-tech animal-keeping techniques, low-tech husbandry, etc. Moreover, far from being fantastic, speculative, or even theoretical, the techniques and solutions that I cite in this book have been APPLIED by various uneducated, pre-industrial peoples throughout history. Much of the contents of my book discusses and documents this central fact. Finally, I demonstrate in my book that there are often SEVERAL low-tech solutions to putative problems with the Ark, and only one of these solutions will do.

It is obvious that the critics have not even remotely come to grips with the data presented in this book.

About the Author
John Woodmorappe has an MA in Geology, a BA in Geology, and a BA in Biology. He is a science educator by profession.

Customer Reviews

An absolute powerhouse.
It is on rare occasion that one encounters a book such as "Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study." In this seminal monograph, author and researcher John Woodmorappe levies a virtual maelstrom of cogent argumentation at any and all detractors of the Ark of Noah. Woodmorappe, through careful study and painstaking documentation, answers critics past and present, and probably will effectively silence those in the near future.

If there is any questions a reader may have concerning the Ark, Woodmorappe is sure to address them in his book. From Ark carrying capacity (given Biblical dimensions) to waste management to potentially finicky eaters (like the koala and vampire bats), the facts and evidence are brought to bear, the results speak volumes: the Ark was more than capable of sustaining the (overly) generous estimates of life to be housed on the Ark for the year-long duration of the Great Flood.

I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the potential for the Ark of Noah. The book will reinforce proponents, and will silence the skeptics. Woodmorappe has done the Creationist movement a profound service in writing "Noah's Ark", and it will no doubt be a reference of the utmost importance in the years to come.

It could be true!
This book has received so many good reviews, so it may not need another... But, I have read it, and it answers most of the questions that may need answers, concerning Noah's Ark. In this respect it is certainly a 5-star book! It is also easy to read (even though it is partly technical), and include parts which may make you happy (or at least you will smile). A must-reading for all those who are critical to the narrative about Noah's Ark!

A book to be feared by evolutionists
Evolutionists have such weak arguments to support naturalistic evolution that they often resort to ridiculing creationists and frequently this ridicule concerns Noah's Ark.

Woodmorappe's well researched scientifically sound study will be extremly difficult for skeptics to deal with. The author meticulously demonstrates that the Ark of Noah is a realistic possiblity.