This is an older thread and I stand by my comments:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/13...hs-flood-13252
There is the salient difficulty which is germane not only to the "scientific" but also the "religious". Whether believed or not, the religious, on the whole, during our time have bought into the sensory or materialistic approach to history or religion itself.
Our culture is a culture of materialism which means that if the event cannot be "seen", via the senses or machine like creation, it does not exist. Everything is mandated to be earth bound. And so we have religious who will climb to the top of a mountain in order to find the "ark". We have movies which present some "magical ark" thus titillating our imaginations. they've bought into that which the scientific mandates but of course it doesn't jive with the realities involved.
Likewise the scientific demands "proof" which they expect to be presented scientifically which is another name for material or measurement, etc... It come out of our universities as mockery, dismissive behavior, or rock throwing at that which does not fit their preconceived conceptions. This is superficial thinking and thoughts, the superficiality of our times.
The "ark" cannot exist, perforce, because it cannot be weighed within the conceptual process of the scientific. One of the curiosities of modern science is the "god gene" which is no more than a continuation of this very same thought process.
In the search for the "beginning" or "basis' or "point force" necessitated by the modern scientist we have the difficulty with light as "particle" or "wave" all buoyed by probabilistic meanderings. It exists, it doesn't exist?????
Foreshortened, the religious would be expected to "think like a scientist" in examining their presuppositions and the scientist would have to acknowledge the presence of a spiritual realm which can very well be appreciated by the modern exegesis of quantums. The mathematicians lead the way for they, of all of the scientifically endowed, understand that there is the existence of a realm which is not material.
I won't say its a short and easy step but individually its not much of a problem if a man becomes a materialist which is a valid philosophical stance but when the entire culture shifts in that direction this can only affect the education of the individual soul from this life into the next. Knowledge of the spiritual world is absolutely necessary in our times , but again it arrives slowly.
I'll stop here as its getting haphazard. yowser!
If anyone knows how to search older threads I believe there was an another thread to the question of the ark.