And the animals came in 2 by 2

Genesis Chapter 6

Noah’s ark

What did God tell Noah when Noah suggested building the ark out of bricks?

“No, Noah, go for wood” (Gopher wood- get it?)

Sorry very sad joke.

According to the Bible account Noah’s ark was pretty big. 

I ran a few rough calculations and according to the footnotes in the bible Noah’s ark was 135 m long by 23 m wide by 14 m high

This is a volume of 42,470 m³

If the floors and sides are on average 1.5 m thick and the wood density of 800 kg/m³ we get a weight for the ark of 20,212 Tonnes.

Each floor has an area of 3105 m² (or ¾ of an acre) so with 3 levels we get 2.25 acres

If the inside and outside are coated with tar, again let us assume a thickness of about 10 

cm on average we would need 150 m³ of pitch or tar.

There was a film called Evan Almighty back in 2007, the ark that Evan builds is quite a lot smaller than Noah’s original

I really do not know the veracity of the story of Noah's ark, the sheer maths would make building the ark a very big project. 

I've seen TV programmes that suggest that ancient Babylon have a similar tale in their folklore, but a bit more of that tomorrow.