Noah's Ark?

Question

Christians, do you really believe that a guy fit all ten billion species of animals on an ark? (that's impossible, even today)

ten billion species of animals. on a boat. and then how did they get to their natural habitats?

Answer 1

Heheh, I always had serious questions about Noah's ark, like how animals with lifespans of less than one day managed to live for 40 days, and how animals who eat other animals survived (how did wolves and sheep, frogs and flies, hawks and mice, survive together for 40 days without food if there were only two of each?)

Not to mention, where did a 5 mile deep ocean of water come from and vanish to all of a sudden? Even if all the polar ice caps melted, it would only raise the oceans by a few meters. Then there's the questionable morality of God exterminating pretty much everything on earth because he wanted to. You're telling me all 3 month old babies he murdered in the flood were bad people?

Answer 2

How did Noah have the engineering capability to build such a large boat in such a short time? How was it proved seaworthy? How did he collect the kangaroos from Australia, polar bears from the Arctic, anacondas from South America, elephants from Africa, etc? What about dinosaurs?

How did Noah get the animals to board the boat in an orderly fashion? (Try telling your cat to do something and see what happens.) How did he provide adequate food and water for all of them, especially since most of them have particular diets? How did he provide bathroom facilities for them? How did any of the humans survive being on the boat with their sanity? You try living with that many animals in one small confined space, under those conditions with no way to clean the waste.

And what happened to all of the water? Where did it go before the ark docked? And what about the corpses of the humans who were killed during the flood? Were they littering the planet? Where did the animals go after the flood? How did they get back to their original locations?

For some of the answers, see the attached, from a Baptist site.

Answer 3

"With God, anything is possible" LOL

What a lovely little answer that is.

It's much the same as "With Santa anything is possible" when a kid asks his parents how the fat fella manages to get down such a skinny chimney. Or more, how he manages to get in at all if there is no chimney.

And people ask why it is that a hard-nosed atheist like me can find religious people so horribly cute! I see even in the adults a kind of child-like naivete which just warms my heart and makes me want to crow "Awwwwww, bless 'em" :o)

And even if they are wrong about that whole God thing, so what????

What possible harm are they doing anybody else by believing that?

If religious people manage to be decent because of what they believe in, why keep badgering them about it all? The worst that can be said of them is that they do the right thing for the wrong reasons. And to me, that makes them much better than people who do all the wrong things for all the right reasons.

If the Christians say Noah squeezed 50 billion creatures on to the boat and they were all bigger than elephants it's good enough fer me. I don't care WHY people behave nicely so long as they do. And a PROPER Christian does behave nicely.

Now if they would just have a word with those who bring them in to disrepute by behaving badly...

Answer 4

observe that it truly is a million/twelfth of the dimensions, and that they nonetheless did no longer drift it on a canal. locate me a maritime engineer which could layout a wood boat the dimensions of the ark that may not ruin up or leak like a sieve on a calm ocean swell and that i will take the tale somewhat extra heavily. additionally i might desire to have ignored the bit approximately Noah making 6ft intense panes of glass. The abode windows on the ark are defined as a single window one cubit sq.. to offer sufficient air flow over the three decks Noah might might desire to layout a device to flow air although the window at approximately 2 hundred mph. ultimately, the place did you get 40 days? it is how long it rained. return a re-study the passage. The animals have been on the ark for one 12 months.

Answer 5

You don't have to understand, but only to believe. I have no idea how a car works but I know it does. And therefore I don't have to understand every detail about Noah's ark to believe that its true. I think questions like yours are just smoke screens, excuses why you won't seek the Lord further. But when you stand before Him on judgment day and He asks you why you didn't believe, are you really going to try to sell Him on the idea that some of the miracles in the Bible are too hard to accept?

Answer 6

Yes, I believe it. They came to the ark under God's command. There is NOTHING too hard for God. Did you know it took Noah 40 years to build the ark? That people thought he was a lunatic because rain hadn't fallen from the sky before, the vegetation was watered by mists from the ground? Noah also had a drinking problem, but that didn't stop God from using him either!
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the EVIDENCE of things unseen! Mine is unshakeable!

Answer 7

Yea today it is!
but

All dogs can be traced back to 2
so that takes care of wolves, foxes, poodles!
An older relative of the Elephant is an animal about 2 feet long nose to tail.

So back then there were much fewer!
and sea life was not taken aboard!

Answer 8

Yes I do. Because the Bible tells me so. And what is impossible to man, is possible to God...natural habitat?? God CREATED this animals.. don't you think He would know how to handle and take care of them? :)

Praise Him.

Answer 9

With God anything is possible. Animals evolve over the years, so I doubt there were 10 billion species way back then.

Answer 10

They have already proven that it was and still remains technically impossible, but I’m sure someone will still say the magic poof guy in the sky waved his magic wand and poof…a miracle.