2006-10-03 12:43:24 · 8 answers · asked by Elliot C 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Ark was said to be 300 cubits or about 450 feet long. That sounded big to Moses, but it isn't big enough to hold 2 to 7 of the 3,000,000+ animals species that exist now or then, since Noah lived 2350 BC or so, according to some fundamentalists. It'd take an army to build such a boat and load it. Loading would take years, and many animals would die before all were loaded. The tale is just a naive myth copied from the Sumerian story of Utnapishtam. Scholars find the Bible copies many things, e.g. the Devil was borrowed from Persian Zoroastrianism.
2006-10-03 12:57:00 · answer #1 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Whether clean or unclean, they fit on that boat because God lent Noah a laser designed to shrink them all to the size of animal crackers. No? Aw, why not? It makes as much sense as the original story. It explains the story of Noah AND the invention of animal crackers, what more could you want?
2006-10-03 19:54:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were Levels in the Ark.
And Noah, I learned from a Previous Answer, kept the Woodpeckers on Top of the Thing too!
Hey, did you know that the Holy Spirit drove all of those Animals to the Ark? Noah didn't even have to go get them. Pretty Neat Huh? GOD is a Neat GOD.
2006-10-03 19:48:59 · answer #3 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ark was very big, about 150 feet long 50 feet wide and three stories tall.
Only 1 or 7 pairs of each kind of animal went onto the ark.
He did not have to take a pair of poodles, shepards, collies, terriers, etc. He only had to take 1 pair of dogs. Same for every other KIND of animal.
2006-10-03 19:57:24 · answer #4 · answered by tim 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
B I G boat.
(And for the record, it was two of every unclean animal, and 7 of every clean animal (Cleanliness based on ritual cleanliness.).
2006-10-03 19:46:38 · answer #5 · answered by Bob L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fairytale.
2006-10-03 19:45:55 · answer #6 · answered by Atheist Eye Candy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He didn't, it's just a story written to show the power of God or whatever. The bible is not historically (or logically) accurate.
2006-10-03 19:49:58 · answer #7 · answered by James P 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
not only 2 of every unclean,but 7 of every clean.
2006-10-03 19:44:43 · answer #8 · answered by norm s 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋