Eight studies through Genesis 6-9 that take the text seriously and the questions honestly, from the Ark's dimensions to the population genetics that still push back.

Grant the space and the stores, and the hardest onboard problem is still people. Eight of them, several thousand animals, and roughly a year.

The popular objection is that the animals could never fit. Run the floor-area numbers with the vessel Genesis actually specifies and a kind-based passenger list, and the objection gets weaker than it sounds.

Genesis 6:15 gives proportions rather than feet, so the Ark's size depends on how long a cubit was. Both reconstructions produce a vessel far larger than the familiar picture.

Genesis repeatedly says the animals came 'according to their kinds.' The Hebrew word behind that phrase is broader and looser than the word species, and the whole capacity question turns on it.

Most arguments about the Ark are about a boat nobody described. The Genesis account is more specific than the popular cartoon and narrower than the objections.