Flood Theology (6 of 7)
Series: Contending For The Faith
Jeff Strite
2 Peter 3:1-13
OPEN: I love to read magazines like National Geographic and The Smithsonian and Popular Science (often just for the illustrations I can find there). But I have especially enjoyed Popular Science. About 3 years ago I stumbled across the question and answer section of Popular Science where people can write in with questions they have always wondered about and get answers from scientists. In this particular issue someone asked the question:
''Could You Build A Spaceship Out Of Wood?''
Well, could you? (I heard a couple, ''Yeah, you could build it. But it wouldn't fly'').
Actually, the answer is yes. You could build such a spaceship, and it could fly. Back in the 60's the Russians built a scale model of a space craft made from wood that they used in wind tunnels (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/buran-wooden-spaceship/).
In the Popular Science magazine they quoted Mike Gruntman, professor of astronautics at the Univ. of Southern California, and he said: ''In terms of strength, wood is pretty good.''Early airplanes were built with wood, all the way into the early 1930s. There were also wooden submarines. Gruntman thinks it may be possible to build a wooden spacecraft that could survive the stress of a rocket launch. The article continued by saying that, once you got into space, there would be serious problems with a wooden spacecraft - but as far as getting INTO space, wood would do the job.
Now the story we're reading from scripture today had to do with another wooden structure - a wooden structure called the Ark. It was a HUGE boat (we put a couple of graphics on the screen to give people a feel for how large Noah's Ark was). There are many people today who ask the same kind of question about Noah's Ark that that person had asked Popular Science about a wooden spacecraft:
''COULD you build a wooden boat this big, and (if you could)
WOULD it be seawor ...
Series: Contending For The Faith
Jeff Strite
2 Peter 3:1-13
OPEN: I love to read magazines like National Geographic and The Smithsonian and Popular Science (often just for the illustrations I can find there). But I have especially enjoyed Popular Science. About 3 years ago I stumbled across the question and answer section of Popular Science where people can write in with questions they have always wondered about and get answers from scientists. In this particular issue someone asked the question:
''Could You Build A Spaceship Out Of Wood?''
Well, could you? (I heard a couple, ''Yeah, you could build it. But it wouldn't fly'').
Actually, the answer is yes. You could build such a spaceship, and it could fly. Back in the 60's the Russians built a scale model of a space craft made from wood that they used in wind tunnels (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/buran-wooden-spaceship/).
In the Popular Science magazine they quoted Mike Gruntman, professor of astronautics at the Univ. of Southern California, and he said: ''In terms of strength, wood is pretty good.''Early airplanes were built with wood, all the way into the early 1930s. There were also wooden submarines. Gruntman thinks it may be possible to build a wooden spacecraft that could survive the stress of a rocket launch. The article continued by saying that, once you got into space, there would be serious problems with a wooden spacecraft - but as far as getting INTO space, wood would do the job.
Now the story we're reading from scripture today had to do with another wooden structure - a wooden structure called the Ark. It was a HUGE boat (we put a couple of graphics on the screen to give people a feel for how large Noah's Ark was). There are many people today who ask the same kind of question about Noah's Ark that that person had asked Popular Science about a wooden spacecraft:
''COULD you build a wooden boat this big, and (if you could)
WOULD it be seawor ...
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