2006-09-10 09:07:56 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Interesting question Jo! Found this link that gives some interesting thoughts on the flood.
http://www.pathlights.com/ce_encyclopedia/14flod01.htm
Hope you find 'grace in the eyes of the Lord' like old Noah!
2006-09-10 09:48:52 · answer #1 · answered by 4thwatch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we look at the nature of sea life, we'll find many of the animals and plants living in its depths are very dependent upon specific environmental factors ... specifically water temperature and water salinity.
If the Earth was indeed flooded, the water added to this mix would need to match the salinity and general temperature range or it would have a disastrous influence on the ocean's creatures.
It would seem more plausible that God did indeed let the sea life live in this action compared to the alternative of Noah being required to haul a pair of blue whales (and other whale/shark species) inside his wooden boat (which is seemingly far too small for the task required).
But adding such a volume of water to the planet's surface would drastically change water dynamic ... supposedly it covered the entire land, so we'd either need fresh water levels ... or salt water levels ... either of which would ultimately kill off a huge number of fish and other creatures.
Basically, if you believe in the "reality" of the great flood and its accompanying story in Genesis ... you're seriously disturbed.
2006-09-10 09:22:10 · answer #2 · answered by Arkangyle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever wonder why so many of the species of fish are exactly the same as they were thousands of years ago?
Or, if you want to assume all the fish did die -- have you ever watched fish die in a tank because the water became contaminated? Imaging what the seas would have been like with all the contamination of the land and all the dead bodies clogging them.
Or, you can just take the flood as a geological event, and not try and analyze ever bit of minutia in the news reporting of the time.
2006-09-10 09:12:36 · answer #3 · answered by coragryph 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i'm skipping the religious or joke aspects and headed for some basic science lessons here: ever see what happens to a fish tank that isn't cleaned? or if too much amonia builds up? the fish die. fish require a certain balance of chemicals, including oxygen, to thrive...which is why varying fish require different environments (ie salt water, brackish, fresh, etcetera). if a flood were to come along, it would sweep abnormal levels of various elements in to their environment (mud, decaying bodies, other pollutants...). the fish would die. to see for yourself, check out any lake with sustained flooding--the fish population is indeed affected. just like in an uncared-for tank.
2006-09-10 09:15:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No need to they lived in the water.
Remember he flooded the earth not the waters.
All living things on the earth were destroyed by the flood.
2006-09-10 09:16:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God. God is the Almighty Creator of the Universe. For all we know He didn't kill the fish. He might have made them vanish, disappear, or anything.
But He didn't kill the fish now did He?
2006-09-10 09:10:43 · answer #6 · answered by Emmie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fish lived a few days longer, but he forced them all to swim over what was land, then when the flood waters receded, they were too tired to swim back out to sea, and they flopped around like fish out of water......
2006-09-10 09:11:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Read the story again, and if you have only heard the story, go straight to the source, the bible, Genesis to be exact.
God did not state that he killed the fish, he killed all land creatures except those that were in the ark.
2006-09-10 09:12:34 · answer #8 · answered by cindy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
first off his goal wasn't to kill off all living things. Only man because our race was no longer pure because the nephilim were taking the daughters of men as brides and so the race was corrupted and that's where you get alot of you mythological characters. and don't forget that anything that wouldn't survive was in the ark w/ Noah. And b4 you ask how the big @$$ dinosaurs and things like that fit in the ark, Noah took babies... Wow!! what a concept? That Noah was a smart guy....
2006-09-10 09:19:51 · answer #9 · answered by shooter77 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Genesis 6:7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. Notice : Man, Beast, Creeping Thing, Fowls of the Air, no fish or thing in the sea are spoke of as being destroyed
2006-09-10 09:22:25 · answer #10 · answered by PREACHER'S WIFE 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋