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I think anyone who tries to visualize the construction of a vessel 450 feet long by four men will realize that the size of the timbers for a building 45 feet high (analogous to a four story apartment building) would seem by their sheer massiveness to be beyond the powers of four men to handle. With all means later at their disposal, subsequent builders for 4000 years constructed seaworthy vessels that seldom have exceeded 150 to 200 feet at the most. The queen Mary has a total length of 1018 feet which is not very much more than twice the length of the Ark. It was not until 1884 that a vessel, the Eturia, a Cunar liner, was built with a length exceeding that of the Ark (Arthur Custance, The Flood: Local or Global, Grand Rapids: MI, Zondervan, 1979, p. 37).
It seems reasonable, on the natural level, to suppose that Noah possessed that constructive genius which manifests itself from time to time throughout history in the construction of something far beyond the achievement of a man's contemporaries. It was surely the type of genius shown by Imenhotep in the design of the Step Pyramid, by the architect of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, by Ictinus and Callicrates in the building of the Parthenon, and by Charles of Lindus in the construction of Colossus of Rhodes. If we reject the story, and say that the task was too great, and that no man could have stood out so far ahead of his contemporaries, then, we must reject the other seven wonders of the ancient world. Noah was only the first of that line of geniuses who designed and constructed something which far outshone the capacity of their contemporaries (Frederick A. Filby, The Flood Reconsidered, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1971, p. 80).
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