Is it possible that the reason why Noah's Ark remains have not been found yet is because it is a different shape or design then a box?

Answer 1

Yes it is possible the ark could be a different shape and design. The Bible does not say what the sahpe exactly was. It's usually thought to be a box. Because this would be the simplest design. However, it would seem as long as the dimensions would conform as outlined in scripture it would still be consistant with scripture. For example it could be more like a giant "A" framed houselike roof upon a ship's barge-like bottom hull.Like a triangle with the top cut off.30 cubits high vertically and 50 cubits wide at the base horizonically like the base of a pyramid. This is an extremelly interesting question. Especially since Noah's Ark was not thought to be a box like design at the earliest about 12th century AD. Too, there's many box like shapes on Mt. Aararat & other Ararat mtn range mtns also. Very much worth checking out. A Biblical-Researcher Added:-(Jan.21rst,2009)-The reply below is understandable. However, it is not realistic to say that :"That shape of Noah's Ark could be restrictied to dimensions exspressed in just a box.If this were the case than everything in construction should only be limited in building it in the shape of a rectangular box.However, this is not the case.Ask any draftsman,builder, or construction developer. We do not see buildings or houses everywhere built in the shape of a rectangular box. If these dimensions can be built into a different shape than a box than that "blows this theory below out of the water".Too, it is like saying:"We can limit God's creativeness, and imagination that the ark's shape had to be built in just the shape of a box.If the shape in these scriptural dimensions in which the ark was to be built, could also fit other shapes as the first answer above states, than secondly again this invalidates restricking the ark's shape to that of a box. In other words;"Prove that the only the shape of a box can be built in these dimensions in construction ,and not any other shape, and than you may have something. Otherwise such is not the case until that can be done". The shape of Noah's Ark is determined by the dimensions involved in construction. These dimensions are as outlined below:

15And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. The dimensions as indicated do indeed make a box shape and this has been tested and found to be extremely stable for the job. The issue of finding the remains does not relate in any case to the shape. The issue is finding any remains at all. Since Ararat is volcanic, a number of things are possible, apart from the antiquity of the remains, or their being re-used for construction purposes post-flood. Volcanic material could have covered it, or a rockfall. It could also be buried in ice and snow, in which case a melt would be necessary to uncover it, if there are any remains left to be uncovered. In relation to the shape, it is not as though there are lots of remains there and they can't decide which it the right one. As far as I am aware, the only hard evidence is a piece of wood found high up on a glacier. Quite a number of people have claimed to have seen it over the years but no conclusive evidence has been found. Over recent years the mountain has been inaccessible due to terrorists being present on it.