Ok, 2 of every animal life form. There are always complications no matter where it is when procreating or giving birth. What if some of these animals were not able to concieve? Or had trouble giving birth and the baby animal got twisted in the birth canal? or the hamster mother was so hungry that she ate her young because maybe they were weak?
2006-09-22 02:50:24 · 34 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Also, some animals need certain temperate climates to survive, namely some insects. So being on the ocean in a huge boat just doesn't make sense.
2006-09-22 02:55:43 · update #1
Unfortunately the problem with the bible and its stories are that to many people take them literally.
Remember that the bible is a story book written my men and all it does is document their accounts and the way they perceive history.
2006-09-22 02:53:50 · answer #1 · answered by debra_har 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
thought I had answered this sorry and thanx for waiting Ha Ha Here is something very interesting i am sure you never heard cuz my friend did not publish his findings. He was trying to figure out how big a place would have to be to store the genetic material needed to re establish life after a cataclism he is all into gentics and so against anything Biblical he told me his answer during a discussion we were having. at that time He was going to publish working on his PHD. I being inherently a real provacative jerk wrote the number down and then recalculated it into cubits and the figure was just about 200cubic feet less than the arc demensions. I assume the rest was Captain and crew quarters hah!!
2006-09-22 17:38:19 · answer #2 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God told Noah, "Everything that is on the earth shall die" by a flood. (Gen. 6:17; 7:4). Noah was also told that the Ark would save his family (four married couples) and a male and female pair of every kind of "unclean" animal and 7 each (or 7 pairs) of every "clean" animal. (Gen. 6:18-19). Noah was also instructed to store food in the Ark for his family and for all the animals. (Gen. 6:21).
Noah did "all that God commanded him." (Gen. 6:22; 7:5).
God can do what is impossible for man.
Who knows exactly how Noah managed to get all the animals (worldwide) together but for God all it takes is thought or spoken word and zip-zap- all done.
God's power is not limited to our feeble ways and thoughts.
He created all that exist and we don't know how. A few animals would hardly be a challenge.
2006-09-22 03:07:19 · answer #3 · answered by cork 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is the point were you have to believe that God took an active part in keeping everyone healthy and well fed. God must have led the most healthiest animals too Noah or what would be the purpose of the trip. 40 days and nights just so the animals could die? Gods not so foolish.
2006-09-22 02:57:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lets see you think God could get all these animals together, make it rain buckets in an area that had never seen an eighth inch of rain at one time. Tell Noah ahead of time to build the ark and exactly how to build it.
But you don't think he could make the animals have babies alright.
I assume you are mocking the Bible or just having a little fun.
God Bless
2006-09-22 02:56:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
in many cases, there were 7 of some kinds... Noah did not have to go out and search for these animals... they found their way to the ark with God's help. God directed the most perfect specimens of each species into the ark. It looks like they all made it.
2006-09-22 02:56:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Through God all things are possible. And If you read the Bible closely, you will see that there were seven of the spiritually clean animals and birds.
‘And you shall bring into the ark two of every kind of every living thing of all flesh, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. Two of every kind shall come to you to keep them alive; of birds after their kind, and of beasts after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind.’ (Gen. 6:19–20)
‘You shall take with you every clean animal by sevens, the male and female. And take two of the animals that are not clean, the male and female. Also take of the birds of the air by sevens, the male and the female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.’ (Gen. 7:2–3)
In the original Hebrew, the word variously translated as ‘beast’ or ‘cattle’ in these passages is the same: behemah, and it refers to land vertebrate animals in general. The word for ‘creeping things’ is remes, which has a number of different meanings in Scripture, but here it probably refers to reptiles.3 Noah did not need to take sea creatures4 because they would not necessarily be threatened with extinction by a flood. However, turbulent water carrying sediment would cause massive carnage, as seen in the fossil record, and many oceanic species probably did become extinct because of the Flood. However, if God in His wisdom decided not to preserve some ocean creatures, this was none of Noah’s business.
Noah did not need to take plants either—many could have survived as seeds, and others could have survived on floating mats of tangled vegetation, as seen today after severe storms. Many insects and other invertebrates were small enough to have survived on these mats as well. According to Genesis 7:22, the Flood wiped out all land animals that breathed through nostrils except those on the Ark. Insects do not breathe through nostrils but through tiny tubes (tracheae) exiting through pores (spiracles) in their exterior skeleton (‘shell’).
Clean animals: Bible commentators are evenly divided about whether the Hebrew means ‘seven’ or ‘seven pairs’ of each type of clean animal. Woodmorappe takes the latter meaning just to concede as much to the skeptics as possible. But the vast majority of animals are not clean, and were represented by only two specimens each. The term ‘clean animal’ is not defined in Scripture until the Mosaic Law. But since Moses was also the writer/compiler of Genesis, if we follow the principle that ‘Scripture interprets Scripture,’ the Mosaic Law definitions can be applied to Noah’s situation. Actually, Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 list very few ‘clean’ land animals.
2006-09-22 03:30:03 · answer #7 · answered by tractor girl 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe we have some extinct species?
The fact is there were 2 of every animal and 7 of certain kinds .
Try reading instead of looking for faults.also read Mattew chp.1 and Luke 1&2.
2006-09-22 02:57:15 · answer #8 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm sure that Noah would just assume that all the animals could pro-create! and if there were any complications, imsure God would be only too happy to give a helping hand!
2006-09-22 02:52:37 · answer #9 · answered by curiosity 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Isn't this neat? The more questions you ask about the tale, the more and more Christians invoke "godmagic" as their explanation, getting further and further afield as they go tripping over themselves to keep their eyes closed.
It's a myth. Get over it and move on.
2006-09-22 21:09:38 · answer #10 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What if the whole Noah and the ark story was real, then that meant that the bible is real, and if the bible is true, then there is going to be a judgement very soon. So, my question to you is: Are you saved
2006-09-22 03:08:23 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋