2006-08-12 17:37:46 · 30 answers · asked by jrivera_e17 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The bible doesn't say how many kinds in total were brought in. Just that 2 of each and 7 of the clean animals and birds of flight.
The size of the ark certainly couldn't hold the diversity of life we see today.
2006-08-12 17:45:55 · answer #1 · answered by laetusatheos 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Moses didn't put any animals on an Ark...but Noah didn't either. Someone said there are 8000 kinds of animals, but there are really 3,000,000 or so. The Ark as described wouldn't hold them, and it'd take 30 years or more to load them. If one believes Genesis, the Earth is about 6010 years old, as Bishop Ussher determined. There would be the same number of animal species in Noah's time as now. What happened to the many extinct animals? Don't tell me the Deluge exterminated them, for I am not an imbecile. There is no geological evidence of a world flood and not enough water to submerge all land. An Ark made only of wood would fall apart in the sea. Noah's Flood is just a fantasy tale copied from the Sumerian tale of Utnapishtam.
2006-08-12 18:05:22 · answer #2 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moses put a multitude of animals in the Arc.
1. creatures in the heavens, beneath the earth or in the water (EX. 20:4)
2. cattle (Ex 20:10)
3. ox, donkey, (EX. 20:17)
there were 3 specified, a multitude unspecified
I just laughed when I saw the answers too. I turned off my computer to go to bed when it hit me!
2006-08-12 18:08:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientist have estimated that there were 8,000 different kinds of animals. Noah took 2 of each of unclean animals, and 7 each of clean animals. Taking the size of the Ark, it is about the size of 525 box cars. 525 box cars can hold 125,000 sheep size animals, much more than Noah had on the Ark.
2006-08-12 17:49:19 · answer #4 · answered by ted.nardo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moses did not put ANY animals on the ark. Noah did tho
2006-08-12 17:50:38 · answer #5 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was no Moses and the ark. It was Noah and the ark and its just a made up story based on the old Sumerian tale of Gilgamesh.
2006-08-12 17:53:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hah! I'm usually offended by stupid questions, but this one is genius. It was Noah, and almost everyone knows that, and yet the majority of the people that answered didn't notice you wrote "Moses." If you did that on accident, buy a Bible. If not, good work.
2006-08-12 17:50:40 · answer #7 · answered by hallowed_are_the_ori 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For noah to put a pair of every species of every living being on earth (assuming in the 1st place the ark was big enough), he would have to shepherd in 289 species per second in that time he had.
I'm sure this will convince everybody the story is a well accepted fact of history.
2006-08-12 17:46:44 · answer #8 · answered by dhammaisfree 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you mean noah, he put like 6 billion species on that boat, so that thing must have been huge and awfully smelly, but hey, that was a long time ago so they may have been used to the zoo like smell.
2006-08-12 17:43:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Book of Genesis. It was Noah, not Moses.
2006-08-12 17:43:17 · answer #10 · answered by winkcat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋