There is no way that he could fit every animal in the world on his ark, excluding animals that could survive for 40 days in the water. I'd like to see someone figure out how big his ship would have to have been in order to fit 2 of every animal on there. Let's say that he
2006-09-10 19:16:52 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's funny how some people said that there weren't as many species of animals then as there are now. I think using evolution to defend Christianity is a good plan.
2006-09-10 20:03:15 · update #1
And the kangaroos!
Impossible physics aside (amount of rain that would needed to have fallen in the amount of time, animals on the boat etc) -
There's no physical evidence of a world wide flood. The Egyptians didn't seem to notice they'd all be drowned and carried on as normal
And yes I'm sure that lots of cultures do have flood stories but that's because PEOPLE LIVE NEAR WATER SOURCES which are notorious for er...... FLOODING! Besides which wouldn't they all of been too dead to write about?!
It makes no friggin sense. People who actually believe it's true must suspend truth and reality to do so.
2006-09-10 19:22:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
I'm an atheist but even I accept the flood actually happened. Its actually chronicled separately in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. So there is proof it happened. However, the 40 days flooding the Earth, animals in boat etc is not chronicled and is likely to be just a nice story. :) Your third point is actually invalid, which is why no one answered it. The flood did happen so ....you can't use it as a basis to invalidate the other bible stories. You choose about the only story which was true!!!!
2016-03-17 11:58:39 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes the flood happened....read Genesis 6:14 - 22. The dimensions for the Ark:
300 cubits long x 50 cubits wide x 30 cubits high. Converting that to the two major systems of measurement in use today we arrive at these dimensions: 135 meters (450 feet) long x 22.5 meters (75 feet) wide x 13.5 meters (45 feet) high. The actual vessel may have been bigger, because the measurement of a cubit varied widely, however 18 inches is accepted as a reasonable length for a cubit. These measurements make the Ark as high a three story building and with a deck area as large as 36 lawn tennis courts. It’s probable that there were at least 4 internal decks.
http://pages.zdnet.com/rwfortune/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/animalsontheark.htm
Also, God did not use warp drive to get the animals to the Ark, but He did cause them to go there.
2006-09-10 19:41:13 · answer #3 · answered by belle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's such a laugh reading your little blurb.
You have no clue how big Noah's ark was, but you just KNOW he couldn't fit the animals on it.
He didn't take every animal in the world. He took a male and female of every "KIND" of animal. There's 261 varieties of dogs today. There were only 2 on Noah's ark, two of the dog "kind". And they were probably puppies. Likewise all the animals. As far as the polar bear goes, there might not have been one. There were two of the bear "kind" on the ark, and they were babies too.
As far as there being no evidence of a worldwide flood, that's also so very funny. It reminds me of a special I saw on television. Some skeptic was standing in front of a mountain which had very obvious rock strata laid down by the flood right behind him while he said right into the camera "We weren't able to find any evidence of anything more than a local flood here."
I suggest you wake up. There's millions of dead things buried in rock layers, laid down by water all over the earth.
No flood, eh.
rotfl
2006-09-10 19:23:25 · answer #4 · answered by s2scrm 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
According to National Geographic - A group of researchers found the Ark in 1989 and an expedition was planned in 2004 to the top on Mt. Ararat in Turkey where it is located
So the ark is there....and this is what is took to get it there.....
Mt Ararat is 5165 meters high.
This makes the water volume necessary to flood it to its peak V= 2.6 * 10^18 m³. (Or 2.5 trillion cubic meters of water)
This water weighs 1018 tons.
Spread out to 40 days the average rainfall would be 129,000 mm per day or 5375 mm per hour. Imagine standing under a waterfall.
so maybe the question isn't how he got all those animals on the ark, but if he didn't.... then how did that funky looking boat get on top of a mountain in the desert?
2006-09-10 19:35:31 · answer #5 · answered by kimber 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No but I believe that sometime back then many numerous localized floods happened. I believe the Noah story is another version from the earlier Babylonian religions story of Gilgamesh.
Besides, if a flood of that magnitude and that length of time did happen...vegetation would have been wiped out...how would the herbivores survived?
2006-09-10 19:28:54 · answer #6 · answered by FreeThinker 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, there is no way the flood happened. There is plenty of archeological evidence of massive regional flooding, but a world wide flood? not a chance.
Christians believe the flood is literally true because you find ocean fossils in the mountains, such as in the state of Arkansas, which was once the bottom of a vast sea. If the flood lasted 40 days, there'd have been no way for ocean creatures to have thoroughly penetrated the entire area, plus have enough of them die in 40 days, to create the fossil record as it is.
Funny how easy it is to see the story for what it is with even a little understanding.
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Alright, let's assume for a moment that there was a year long flood. This STILL would be insufficient time to create the aquatic fossil record found in the Ozark and Ouchita mountain ranges in Arkansas. I forget where I saw it but I seem to remember a professor of palentology saying that the flood would have had to have lasted a minimum of a millenium in order to have sufficient penetration of aquatic species, and that that still wouldn't explain the particular stratification because the aquatic fall off would have left the fossils in different patterns than they are found.
*ONLY* the old earth/non-global-flood approach meshes with the fossil record and history. If the Bible disagrees, but is the truth, then it is expressing a SYMBOLIC truth.
2006-09-10 19:20:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Yes, the flood actually happened and there is evidence that was stated previously to prove it. And to address something previously stated, it only rained 40 days and 40 nights. The entire time line of the flood was nearly a year. As for all the animals getting on the ark, the ark itself was around 450 feet long, six stories wide, and four stories tall, that's a big boat! God was with Noah and his family the whole time, so again, all things are possible.
2006-09-10 19:28:37 · answer #8 · answered by BASIC G 1 · 1⤊ 5⤋
YUP THERE WAS FLOOD...1st FACT- it took 120 yrs to build the ark. and there are not to many species of animals that time compare at present time..it happened B.C. 2nd FACT- why worry about the fishes? its flood, its land animals that were required to ride the ark (common sense pls.) 3rd FACT - the ark is 14,500 meters long. there were sightings of the ark at Turkey's Mt. Ararat. and if you will read the verse, the boat stop at Mt. Ararat. And during the BC era, coninents havent fell apart yet. and its GODs will on how all land animals at that time were inside the ark. Cant you get it mr sexquiz? nothing is impossible if GOD says so. you may check the sites for the ark.
2006-09-10 19:42:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Check out Kent Hovind's sight, www.drdino.com You haven't read the Bible very carefully because it does say that God sent the animals to Noah. Get your facts straight!
2006-09-10 19:27:50 · answer #10 · answered by keys 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋