It was not until the year 1900, some 4,000 years after the Ark that the technology even existed to build a wooden ship of that size that could withstand the stresses of the open sea. The defects of such large wooden ships was the major reason why the world's navies turned to steel ships before the First World War. The Ark had to be strong enough to survive the open seas during a catastrophic raging flood. "Apparently, the creationists would have us believe that 600 year-old Noah managed to construct a wooden ship 150 feet longer that the largest on ever built, and managed to solve, by himself, all of the design, construction, and material problems that the world's largest navies could not deal with 4,000 years later. Then after the Flood, Noah apparently forgot how he had solved these problems--no ship of similar size would be built for another 40 centuries" (Flank).
Despite the problems that confronted Noah in just designing and constructing such a massive ship; what about the actual stocking, and feeding of the animals on the theoretical Ark. Noah had been commanded to carry seven of every "clean" beast and two of every "unclean". Noah's Ark was not of infinite size, and there is an enormous number of animals that needed to be loaded onto the Ark if all the fossil species are to be considered too. It is obvious that even Noah's 450-foot Ark would simply not have the space to accommodate two of every animal, both living and fossil. How was Noah able to gather animals together from the various parts of the world that he didn't even know existed? "How did he get to the remote regions of the earth to collect exotic butterflies and Komodo dragons?" (Carroll). By the time Noah could have traveled to the ends of the Earth to collect all of the species of animals, his boat would have rotted in the desert. Now comes the problem with feeding of the animals. How was Noah able to stop the animals from eating one another? "Or, are we to believe that the lion was lying down with the lamb on the Ark?" (Carroll).
