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.

Arguments about capacity are worth having, but they are not the point of the passage. The Ark is where Genesis shows us judgment and rescue in the same act.

The capacity argument gets stronger the smaller the passenger list becomes. That same move hands the difficulty to biology, and this is where the case is genuinely hard.

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

Fitting bodies aboard is the easy part. Feeding them for about a year is where the arithmetic starts to bite, and where the difference between an assumption and a described system matters most.

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.

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.