a . Actually, the Hebrew word for Ark (tebah ) does not mean boat. It means “box,” “chest,” or “coffin.” Notice how the Ark depicted in Figure 41 on page 49 looks like a box, chest, or coffin. In the Bible, tebah occurs in only one other context besides the flood. (The “Ark of the Covenant” is a different Hebrew word.) Moses was saved as a baby in a pitch-covered ark, tebah (Exodus 2:3, 5). Sometimes tebah is translated into a different English word, such as basket. Moses, perhaps acting as an editor, wrote the flood account. Don’t you suppose that Moses had a special interest in describing how a few people, his ancestors and ours, were saved in a tebah—as he was?
b . The most detailed study of the many logistical requirements for the Ark and the number of animals on board is by John Woodmorappe, Noah’s Ark: A Feasibility Study (El Cajon, California: Institute for Creation Research, 1996).
c . “The event of the koa dispersal is a giant fluke, but that’s part of the message of a lot of recent biogeographic studies: that giant flukes happen.” Alan de Queiroz, as quoted by Emma Marris. “Tree Hitched a Ride to Island,” Nature, Vol. 510, 19 June 2014, pp. 320-321.
u “‘Things don’t go from islands,’ he says, ‘or at least that was the general thought.” Ibid.
d . “Koa seeds are unlikely to have floated to Réunion—they will not germinate after being soaked in seawater, and the trees grow in the mountains, not near the shore.” Marris.
e . “The startling finding is the latest in a string of improbable long-distance dispersal events that have been uncovered in the past 15 years or so. ... Such findings have shaken up the field of biogeography, which concerns itself with why species are found where they are.” Ibid.