The ark would have had to carry at least two of each species (7 of 'the clean ones' according to the bible) including modern animals through to every kind of dinosaur. Peronally I find this story extremely improbable, but this self acclaimed 'scientist' insists that it really happened as depicted in the bible.
http://uk.messages.news.yahoo.com/World/threadview?bn=UK-NEWS-WOR-Religion&tid=62769&mid=62782&tof=4&m=tm&rt=1&off=1
What do you think?
2006-11-08 22:45:08 · 9 answers · asked by gbiaki 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Too big for it to ever have been built.
Too many animals to ever carry enough food.
Too many animals for the smaller ones not to have drowned/suffocated in all the waste they animals would have produced.
2006-11-08 22:48:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably the same "scientist" that thinks the Grand Canyon was formed by the biblical flood!
The bible is the most absurd book ever written for example :-
Genesis 5:32 " And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth."
500 years old..... yeah right
Genesis 6:14 - 15
"Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. "
Noah's ark is 450 feet long. The largest wooden ships ever built were just over 300 feet, and they required diagonal iron strapping for support. Even so, they leaked so badly that they had to be pumped constantly. Are we to believe that Noah, with no shipbuilding knowledge, was able to construct a wooden ship longer than any that has been built since? but not only was the ark too big to be seaworthy, it was far too small to be able to contain the earth's millions of plant and animal species.
Go and read a proper book such as "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins.
2006-11-09 10:12:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The story of noah is in other religous books - not just in the Bible. I think is is a true story but the world as it was know then was flooded and not the whole earth. There is evidence of an ark in Turkey (?) right up in the mountains and miles and miles from any water body.
It carry a pair of every animal in the whole world would be totally impossible, but it is possible to carry a pair of each animal from a smaller area.
2006-11-09 10:10:25 · answer #3 · answered by ribble_girl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well now ... not all Christian religions take the bible literally - in fact I can recall (Church of Scotland background) explanations of so called "miracles" in a pratical way. (The 2 fish and 5 loafs of bread for instance, when produced stimulated all the other people to produce what they were keeping hidden) But the Arc - surely just a writers imagination at work here. With the present scientific information (the ability to produce life from inaminate materials et al) the preservation of life was unnecessary - it would regenerate itsself acording to the laws of nature that existed prior to the Arc being necessary. So - in a way - all that had to be preserved was just that - the laws of nature. Let us face it, the fish were home free anyway!
2006-11-09 07:12:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith is the basis of all religion. How else could one believe water was turned into wine... fish and bread appeared from nowhere, the seas parted... it's all faith based. So it turns to you to either believe it and accept it or to disagree and repute it. In logical sense the bible is full of feats otherwise very impossible. I for one, do not believe it all but am still a Christian. I wouldn't think God would want all of his people to be suckers after all :)
2006-11-09 07:13:10 · answer #5 · answered by Shadow~ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd also have to discount any kind of predation, the animals have to eat. I think that the story of Noah, was a fabrication of some kind of big natural disaster that did occur, but it's always more interesting when a man saves his animal subjugates from imminent extinction.
2006-11-09 09:06:18 · answer #6 · answered by Phantom 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the bible is nothing more than a book. It was written by man more than 350 years after a man names Jesus was born, lived his life and died. The bible is a metaphoric perception of what has been handed down from generation to generation by man, not God...............It's just a book!!
2006-11-09 06:49:37 · answer #7 · answered by Dusty 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If an aircraft carrier is like a mini city, then triple this.
2006-11-09 06:49:12 · answer #8 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with simon_r. Please keep on topic, Earth Sciences and Geology.
2006-11-09 16:41:42 · answer #9 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋