Is the Noah's Ark story just too unbelieveable? Why or why not?

Answer 1

let me see if I have this striaght.....you and a few friends got together and decided to join together with the Noah thing?
You have a bible so you can figure it out all by yourself. When you have a real debate or quesiton let me know.........

Answer 2

Yes, it is... much too unbelieveable. I cannot fathom that the ENTIRE earth was covered with water and that Noah gathered two of each animal on the entire earth. How did he get penguins? Or any of the MILLIONS of other species that weren't right there where he lived?

I've heard Christians tell me that God guided all of those animals to Noah. If God did that, why did he tell Noah to do it when he could have saved them all himself? And how did he guide animals to Noah if they were on different continents? Did the penguins just float through the air down to Noah? And the koala bears on the Australian continent?

I've also heard Christians say that the Grand Canyon was created by the great flood and they have no proof but their own faith. Scientists say otherwise and can provide proof. Whom should I believe?

Then there are the wacky evangelicals (whom I lovingly call "gellies") and fundies who say that Noah had dinosaurs on the ark. Huh? Science can prove that dinosaurs were long gone by that time. Whom should I believe?

Finally, if everyone was wiped out all over the earth, then the entire earth was then re-populated by Noah and his wife, also an impossibility. There are far too many genetic lines on this earth for us all to have been from the same family tree.

I believe that there might have been a massive rainstorm in the area where the author lived and because they were ignorant to the true size and shape of the earth, of course they thought it must be happening all over the entire planet. And any type of rainstorm that lasted that long MUST be attributed to an angry god because their god is not a nice god... he obviously hates his creations enough or gets mad at them enough to wipe them out at his whim. And if it was because of god, they felt obligated to report it that way.

But it was a local rainstorm and some wacky made a boat. End of story.

Answer 3

Plain and simple: I doubt Noah and his family had a book of Taxonomy to help them gather pairs of the hundreds of thousands of ground insects, plus the tens of thousands of ground reptile species, plus the thousands of mammal species, plus the thousands of plant and fungi species that cannot live underwater, and the zillions of microorganisms, all of which cannot survive underwater, and of which there are ZERO mentions in the Bible.

PLus, Noah's Ark must have had artificially created microenvironments, or ecosystems, for all these beings to survive the N days that the flood lasted.

How did Noah's family manage to gather Polar Bears, Turkeys, Galapago's Turtles, Japanese Storks, Flamingoes, Gorillas, and very especially, Kangaroos, Koalas and Platypuses?? Did he redeem his American Express extra overdue miles in a week?

Plus, how did the soaring species manage to survive, like the Bald Eagle, the Royal Eagle and the Condor??

Plus, how do you put predators and prey together in such a cramped room as the ark was?

I know I'm wasting my time if i mean to convince anyone, i'm just entertaining the thought for the N time now.

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Answer 4

It's not. Why the measurements are in the Old Testament of the Bible, which is the Bible of the Jewish people, I believe the first 5 books are called the Torah. If I'm wrong would someone correct me? Thank you. All the animals Christianity believes got on and it was the youngest and fiittest, even dinosaurs! How bout that. Do I believe that God could give a man dimensions big enough for a long neck and the rest of the animals? You bet I do. It's supernatural. You have to have faith.

Answer 5

It is not unbelievable and I feel sorry for the people that think that. Because if Noahs story is unbeilievable than isnt Jesus's and those who dont beilieve that will sadly end up in Hell.
Oh and now they are finding fish bones from thousands and millions of years ago in desserts so at one point even the dryest places on earth were covered with water.

Answer 6

The Ark story has to be the most unbelievable fairie tale in an entire book of fairie tales. To read the story of the Ark and it not raise some serious questions of validity in anyone minds must certainly mean you are to far gone for rational thought.

Answer 7

Of course it is unbelievable. Aside from all the aquatic animals that would have had to be on the Arc, what about all the insects? Many species can only survive in very well defined niches, they require a specific range of temperature, humidity, a specific food.
Basically it is not possible for a bronze aged civilization to maintain the millions of habitats necessary to house and care for all the animals on earth. It would not be possible in this age to achieve such a thing. What about all the plants? What about freshwater to give all this life?

Answer 8

If you read about Noah in Islam .. you will find that the flood drowned only the people of Noah (not the whole world)

[25:37] And the people of Noah, when they rejected the apostles, We drowned them, and We made them as a Sign for mankind; and We have prepared for (all) wrong doers a grievous Penalty;

Answer 9

What's with all the Noah's Ark questions this morning, this is like my 6th?

Answer 10

Since every culture has some form of the great flood story, there is a certain amount of truth it if all you do is consider it a part of mythology. In understanding evolution better, I understand better how things came about after the great flood.