Build the Boat

My senior year in High School, I thought the evidence was in.  Buddy Davis had just found his unfossilized dinosaur bones and the Paluxy River footprints proved dinosaurs walked with man.  Also, there were boats much bigger than Noah's Ark in the water.  Over a decade later, no one really knows where Buddy's fossils are and  the Paluxy River footprints have been debunked.  I am ashamed to admit it, but it was only a couple of years ago that I found out that Noah's Ark was by far bigger than any wooden boat that has ever floated.  You see, all those big boats that creationist speakers pointed to had metal hulls.  Even the modern Ark recreations had metal hulls.  Why? Wood cannot handle the stress.  Where do creationists want to build a wooden Ark? Nowhere near water...in Kentucky.
A decade ago Skeptic Report proposed this experiment.

BUILD AN ACTUAL ARK! 
You should probably wait for the outcome of the Noah’s Family experiment above, but it would demonstrate your confidence in the veracity of the Bible if you forged ahead with this (surely there’s no doubt that it can be done, is there?). Here are some reasonable rules:

• Use only natural wood, but any type you want, unless you’re confident you know what “gopher” wood is.
• All wood must be obtained and dressed from timber felled by hand, using only such tools as would have been available in Noah’s day (no Husqvarna chainsaws–not even iron axes).
• All timber and other materials used in the Ark must be transported to the building site using only such means of transport as would have existed at the time (no deliveries by Home Depot) .
• Only such materials as would have been available to Noah may be used–consult with some archaeologists with serious credentials.
• After determining modern equivalents, build the Ark to the specifications given in Genesis.
• Use only tools and building methods appropriate to the time period (no CAD, etc.).
• The Ark may be built in drydock, or transported to a body of water using modern technology, since all Noah had to do was wait for the water to rise.
• Float the Ark, fill it with animals, people, food, etc. (as above) and run the experiment for the full year.

Big project? You bet, but won’t creationists heed the trumpet call and rush to tithe their money and donate their time to quash the atheists and evolutionists once and for all? Picture the lines of volunteer workers bringing their bronze adzes and copper wedges! Think of all the animals that will be collected worldwide and donated! This will be, without question, the world’s only complete zoo.