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Noah's Ark: Thinking Outside the Box

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When Tim Lovett tells his viewers to "think outside the box," he actually means to think beyond the concept of Noah's Ark, dating back to Elfred Lee and arguably to Athansius Kircher, of a simple box-shaped barge. But Lovett's work encourages us to think outside another kind of box: the idea that the Flood story was a myth. Early in this video he demolishes the children's-book concept of the Ark as a claw-footed bathtub with a pilothouse on top--a concept born of an era when men took the Bible less than seriously. Then he shares his research, and shows that ancient (post-Flood) ships must have copied certain key features that were actually necessary to make the Ark seaworthy. (He also shows that the proportions of the Ark struck the best balance among the three considerations of strength, stability and sea-kindliness.) This is a must-have product for anyone wishing to understand the most critical project in the history of naval architecture.

I found the DVD very interesting/intriguing, but in many respects superficial and I wished it went deeper into several of the concepts discussed. I'd like to visit their physical location.