Is Noah,s arc biblical story a biblical evidence against evolution theory ?

Question

If animals evolved from one source or potentially can do so why in the biblical noah,s story did noah had to take one animal of each kind , male and female , when it might have been easier to lower the load and simply carry with him in the arc yeast cells , that would eventually develop into elephants , whales , goats etc . was this noah,s story really true . what do scientist say ? Please lets have an educated discussion , both christians and none christians for i believe by not thinking inside the box we all can win . knowledge is a process and debates are sources of change .

Answer 1

I don't believe in the noah's arc story! How would you fit 2 of every animal on earth in a 450 ft boat, not to mention the amount of food that would have been needed.

Answer 2

Noah`s Ark is pure fiction. It is an attempt to explain diversity and survival of species after a flood. A flood for which there is some evidence on a limited and strictly local scale,but certainly not a global flood. For the poorly educated, untraveled inhabitants of pre-history, the "world" was a very small place, a flood on the New Orleans scale would have meant global disaster for such simple people. Their world was small and ignorant. With regards to the occupants of the fictitious Ark, Lions, Tigers etc, this is so absurdly laughable that any attempts to discuss it are demeaning to science and those involved in the reality of nature. This is as much as I care to add. The rest of your post concerning yeast cells turning into elephants and goats is not worthy of discussion.

Answer 3

Noah's ark was just a story it never actually happened. if you take the measurements as mentioned in the Bible you will find that it would have been approx the same size as the Titanic. Made of wood it would have collapsed under its own weight.

Some experts believe the story was based on a Syrian animal trader who got swept out to sea in a freak flood.

Answer 4

Win? What are you trying to win? The great flod heppened or it didn't happen. Evolution happened or it didn't happen.
The time line you're talking about, a few thousand years, is not enough time for complex organisms to develope. In that case, in order for the story to be true and for us to have the diversity of life we have now, he would have had to collect two of every land animal. The arc as described in the bible would be too small to handle that many animals in addition to the supplies that would be needed.

Answer 5

Absolutely not; what if Noah only brought two bears onto the ship and then from the two members of the dog family came wolves, dogs and bears? This is possible because between Genesis 8 and Genesis 10, a long time obviously passed.

Answer 6

Noah's ark is a myth. There is absolutely no geological evidence in support of a world wide flood, and no archeological evidence of the ark....despite what some fundies will tell you. (Kent Hovind is an uneducated wing nut...even the "Answers in Genesis" people are embarassed by him. Especially now he is under indictment for fraud and tax evasion.)

Even if Noah had taken simple organisms, there has not been enough time since the fictional flood for them to evolve into the variety of life we see today, that takes millions of years.

Answer 7

heres the thing: TIME. Christians think earth is only a few thousand years old. Scientiests think it is more like a few BILLION. yeast cells in a few BILLION years could ( probablly wouldn't_but could) change into animals. However not in 40 days /40 nights. If you add time into the equation anyone can see evolution.

Answer 8

by no potential considered any certainly evidences, without or with citation marks. I heard they discovered a chariot wheel on the backside of a few sea nevertheless. and all and sundry is familiar with the only way chariot wheels could be discovered on the backside of a significant naval commerce course is that if Pharaoh's military chasing down Moses is swallowed by potential of the sea. That aside, i'm tremendously optimistic a minimum of the Ark of the covenant existed, and contained countless holy texts and relics. it truly is in basic terms no one has discovered it yet. the different stuff, nah.

Answer 9

To answer the incredulous .......(lateralus)

The “kinds” of animals selected had reference to the clear-cut and unalterable boundaries or limits set by the Creator, within which boundaries creatures are capable of breeding “according to their kinds.” It has been estimated by some that the hundreds of thousands of species of animals today could be reduced to a comparatively few family “kinds”—the horse kind and the cow kind, to mention but two. The breeding boundaries according to “kind” established by Jehovah were not and could not be crossed. With this in mind some investigators have said that, had there been as few as 43 “kinds” of mammals, 74 “kinds” of birds, and 10 “kinds” of reptiles in the ark, they could have produced the variety of species known today. Others have been more liberal in estimating that 72 “kinds” of quadrupeds and less than 200 bird “kinds” were all that were required. That the great variety of animal life known today could have come from inbreeding within so few “kinds” following the Flood is proved by the endless variety of humankind—short, tall, fat, thin, with countless variations in the color of hair, eyes, and skin—all of whom sprang from the one family of Noah.

These estimates may seem too restrictive to some, especially since such sources as The Encyclopedia Americana indicate that there are upwards of 1,300,000 species of animals. (1977, Vol. 1, pp. 859-873) However, over 60 percent of these are insects. Breaking these figures down further, of the 24,000 amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, 10,000 are birds, 9,000 are reptiles and amphibians, many of which could have survived outside the ark, and only 5,000 are mammals, including whales and porpoises, which would have also remained outside the ark. Other researchers estimate that there are only about 290 species of land mammals larger than sheep and about 1,360 smaller than rats. (The Deluge Story in Stone, by B. C. Nelson, 1949, p. 156; The Flood in the Light of the Bible, Geology, and Archaeology, by A. M. Rehwinkel, 1957, p. 69) So, even if estimates are based on these expanded figures, the ark could easily have accommodated a pair of all these animals.

Answer 10

Lol Roy this made me chortle, and I'm a creationist


Latralis. Two animals of each kind, not each animal, and also young animals even perhaps eggs? Also have a look at the size of the boats dimentions. The construction would be more large oblong box than boat. ok i'm done.