There are at least 800,000 species of insects and most cannot live underwater. Collecting 1.6 million insects must have taken a long time, considering that many have a lifespan of only a few days. How was this accomplished?
2006-09-21 09:32:44 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Even if he collected one insect every 30 seconds and didn't sleep it would take him almost 2 years to do this!
2006-09-21 09:39:36 · update #1
There are 800,000 species of insects, the definition of species is that two individuals of different species cannot produce firtile offspring. We're not talking about dog breeds here.
2006-09-21 09:41:27 · update #2
Yeah, Noah doesn't get close to enough credit for his work in Biology and Species Classification - WAY ahead of his time. Not to metion his skills as a Shipbuilder...
2006-09-21 09:45:26 · answer #1 · answered by Kenny ♣ 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
One interesting report concerning Noah is in the writings of Berosus. He said that Ouranos (Uranus) of Greek myth is actually Noah. He went on to say Kronos = Ham, Mizraim = Zeus, Jupiter, Osiris, Lehabim = Heracles. And so on.
Berosus was a priest of Bel-Marduk in Mesopotamia.
As to the ark issue, this link explains in detail:
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-c013.html
2006-09-21 10:09:16 · answer #2 · answered by DexterLoxley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ever how many species of insects there were in the days of Noah,he had them on the ark.however if you will read the bible in the old testement i dont recall any insects mentioned just animals.no fish were mentioned either because fish live in the water and GOD supplied lots of that.i dont think there were many species of insects in those days but only GOD knows for sure.
2006-09-21 09:37:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
First of all, Noah did not collect all the animals. God brought them to him. Secondly, where do you think there are 800,000 different species. (I'll break this down to simple terms.... If he had 1 male and 1 female ant, it would have been the main genetic parent. He would not need to have red ants and black ants and fire ants, etc since these are all of the same basic family.)
2006-09-21 09:38:23 · answer #4 · answered by justaskn 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Wasn't he on the ark for 40 days also, so really the insects would've died?
Hmm, that's interesting. Good question.
2006-09-21 09:35:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have heard Christians say that insects need not be part of the ark. I would love to get the passage that says that.
2006-09-21 09:35:18 · answer #6 · answered by Alucard 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Answer in my opinion:
It wasn't accomplished. Noah's Ark is an interesting story but it didn't really happen, at least not the way the story describes.
~Kyle
2006-09-21 09:34:54 · answer #7 · answered by Kyleontheweb 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No they just floated around on sticks like they do today during a flood. For food they just ate each other, more than enough to go around.
2006-09-21 09:35:21 · answer #8 · answered by Sean 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ha! At last count there were that many species of nematodes!
2006-09-21 09:36:52 · answer #9 · answered by JAT 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Transporting insects was Not necessary. They can live quite happily on fallen trees and logs, of which there were plenty after all that wild water ran everywhere.
Another objection bites the dust.
2006-09-21 09:40:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋