Crunching Noah’s ArkNovember 12, 2007 — Deacon Duncan Just for
fun, let’s crunch some numbers, shall we? The last few seconds
of the video show the Flood about to strike the Ark. Let’s see
if we can calculate the height the Ark would have to fall from
in order to equal the impact it’s going to experience when that
big wave hits. The video shows an undersea eruption of some kind
starting off the flood. It follows roughly the line of the Mid-
Atlantic Ridge (with a corresponding eruption along the, um,
Mid-Pacific Ridge), sending a mountainous wall of water hurtling
eastwards and westwards. The time from initial eruption until
the covering of the entire earth is about a minute and a half,
or 90 seconds. Let’s round that off to 100 for easier
calculations. So we have two eruptions, each generating two
waves, that circle the earth until they meet, and each wave
covers roughly one quarter of the earth. The earth is about
24,900 miles in circumference, so each wave has to travel 6,225
miles in those 100 seconds, giv