Has anyone ever...?

Question

...catalogued the species known to exist in Noahs time and calculated the approximate square-footage two of each animal would take up? Would they all fit on the arc? And what did they eat? Let us assume that the animals were kept away from their predators. Did Noah bring extra rabbits to feed the tiger with?

Answer 1

Noah brought a whole bunch of that ReadyMix stuff, just add water and stir which was easy to do considering the circumstances.

Answer 2

Actually, the Bible talks about kinds, which are understood to be higher on the taxonomic scale than species. They were probably set at the genus level, and possibly the family, which would mean there were only about 16,000 animals at the most. Most of the species today have arisen recently, from the time of the Flood and now. Also, the size of the ark was about 1.5 million cubic feet. That's pretty big. Try reading "Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study" by John Woodmorappe. He goes through a number of objections to the Ark and explains how it could be done.

Answer 3

Do you know that only 10% of the Ocean's inhabitants are known to man? Do you know that every time people are finding new species on the land? Where did they come from?

God can only say "Be!" and there will be new creations. So don't worry about fitting all the animals into the ship.

Answer 4

Not to mention the fact that he took SEVEN of all "clean" animals as opposed to only two each of the "unclean." God does work miracle's. The true one was keeping the bottom of the Ark clean. EVERY culture on earth has a version of the story of the flood. Something THAT universal has got to have truth behind it. Besides, if the flood did not happen, how did all those fossils get buried so deep, in so little time?

Answer 5

Your question answers your own question. If there were only 2 of everything, what did the animals eat? I'm not a very religious person but I do believe that "something" exists. But the idea of an ark and two by two, just seems a little ridiculous, no matter how fascinating it may be.

Answer 6

Silly, the animals were smaller back then. What government would have the money or time to fund such an expensive archaelogical program?

First, fossils of each identifiable animal would have to be found (which isn't guaranteeable given the time of decomposition); and then, the types of wood and equipment need to concoct such a ship would have to be accurately re-engineer.

Without design specs, that would be virtually impossible.

Just leave this myth, er, I mean fact alone, OK?

Answer 7

Silly rabbit. If you build an ark to the Biblical specifications you will discover the combination of animal feces, urine and gopher wood opens a portal into an alternate dimension where entire ecosystems can be safely stored until all the water pours off the four sides of the table of the earth and down the pillars it rests on.

Answer 8

When exactly WAS Noah's time? One would have to figure that out first. They only historical benchmark for the story is the Bible... and that is not in any way a reliable source.

I'm pretty sure that the Noah of the bible never existed.

Answer 9

Nice question!

Noah cut off the horn of the unicorns he left behind and shrunk all the animals to fit in tiny pockets of his closet organizer

Answer 10

Gen. 6:21 says that noah was to gather all food that was eaten,for him and for them(the animals).i have to beleive that as the ark was for protection for noah and his family,it was also for the animals.