How is it scientifically possible for Noah to have two of every animal on his ark?

Question

I am curious how Noah could have built and housed the thousands of species of animals as alleged in the Old Testament

I thought the Bible is the "word of God".So how can this story be anything but true?But if it is true then how is it possible?

Answer 1

read this it tells how it can't be done http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/noahs_ark.html

This boat would have had to have been bigger than a super-tanker!
There are MILLIONS of species on the land. There are over three hundred and fifty thousand species of beetle alone. The sheer number of insects would fill several arks, before you even consider the larger creatures. The ark would have to be the single largest ship ever in the history of the world. Modern technology could not possibly create a ship large and stable enough to act as Noah's Ark (someone on alt.atheism suggested that Noah would have needed a space-suit to walk on the deck!).

Answer 2

It isn't possible. What biblical scholars will use as the argument is... Variations of species which we see today are all descendant of those animals from the ark. The likely hood of that is impossible. Noah's Ark is a story. Was there a guy named Noah? Sure. Did he have a boat? Sure. Was there a flood? Yes

Did it consume the planet... Of course not.

When reading religious text what you have to do is, place them into a reasonable context. Stories like these are used to make a point. Those the story is fictitious, the message may have some truth in it.

But that is for you to decide.

Answer 3

thats a good question. I mean think about it. He had no transportation and had to get all the animals from all over the world. Plus he didnt have that many days to get them in the ark. God had to have helped him. You should check out the discovery channel for that show that talks about the a location in turkey that they think has the ark on a mountain top. there are these top secret U-2 spy plane pictures that show this object that looks alot like the ark. But the goverment of turkey will not let anyone take a expedition to explore it. crazy

Answer 4

This was way before people started learning about what gentics to use to make animals that would do certain things so there would be a lot less animals and about 1/2 of the animals that were probably were smaller because that's what happened and plussince noah had faith in Goid and obeyed him God would have made a way to fit all the animals in not to say there was much breathing room...lol...jk...

Answer 5

1. Obviously it's impossible.
2. The Bible was written by men, supposedly inspired by their God.
3. It follows that the story of Noah (and all other stories in the Bible) are to be treated as allegories, parables to make a point, but NEVER as the literal truth.

Answer 6

First, I'm not certain of the measurements of the ark which would be needful to be sure. It is in the Bible and I'm not interested in figuring that out.

But, it says two of every "kind" of animal. This would be two of each of the types of animals that can get together and reproduce. Micro-evolution is an observable scientific fact. It doesn't mean two of every species of animal known of today.

Answer 7

It's not possible. There was no room, and as many animals today only exsist in remote parts of the world the same was most likely true back then. he would not have been able to get to all the different species there are.

Answer 8

Re-read the story. Think about the point of the story. What was the result of what Noah did and why was he asked to build the ark? What did God promise?

Answer 9

According to Zacharia Sitchin, Noah actually had the genetic information of all the animals stored on his ark (spaceship) and humanity was genetically enhanced from a version of primitive man.

Answer 10

It is true that encyclopedias refer to over a million species of animals. But Noah was instructed to preserve only representatives of every “kind” of land animal and flying creature. Some investigators have said that just 43 “kinds” of mammals, 74 “kinds” of birds, and 10 “kinds” of reptiles could have produced the great variety of species of these creatures that are known today. The ark had about (1,400,000 cu ft) of usable space, ample for the passenger list.
The ark had a carrying capacity equal to that of 10 freight trains of about 25 American boxcars each!
The book In Search of Noah’s Ark quotes George Hagopian, an Armenian, who claimed that he climbed Mount Ararat and saw the ark in 1902 and again in 1904. On the first visit, he said, he actually climbed on top of the ark. “I stood up straight and looked all over the ship. It was long. The height was about forty feet.” Regarding his observation on his subsequent visit, he said: “I didn’t see any real curves. It was unlike any other boat I have ever seen. It looked more like a flat-bottomed barge.”
The “kinds” of animals selected had reference to the clear-cut and unalterable boundaries or limits set by the Creator, within which boundaries creatures are capable of breeding “according to their kinds.” It has been estimated by some that the hundreds of thousands of species of animals today could be reduced to a comparatively few family “kinds” the horse kind and the cow kind, to mention but two.

The breeding boundaries according to “kind” established by Jehovah were not and could not be crossed. With this in mind some investigators have said that, had there been as few as 43 “kinds” of mammals, 74 “kinds” of birds, and 10 “kinds” of reptiles in the ark, they could have produced the variety of species known today. Others have been more liberal in estimating that 72 “kinds” of quadrupeds and less than 200 bird “kinds” were all that were required. That the great variety of animal life known today could have come from inbreeding within so few “kinds” following the Flood is proved by the endless variety of humankind—short, tall, fat, thin, with countless variations in the color of hair, eyes, and skin all of whom sprang from the one family of Noah.