Did he reeeaaally take two of every animal on some boat? I mean, come on...
2006-12-26 09:23:29 · 12 answers · asked by Atlas 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is one of they silliest myths of the Torah/Bible. This story was a rip off of a similar fable about the great flood. To add humor to the story in Tennessee there is a creationist museum where they have dinosaurs on the ark. Now the ship would have been the size of the Nimitz to hold dinosaurs and the rest of the wildlife (extinct hominids like Australopithecus on the ark too?) A wooden craft could not have sustained a flock of sheep much less the quantity of wildlife of every species including the extinct reptiles.
As an addenda I noted the additional material that made me shoot a perfectly good latte on my new computer screen. A ship that size made of wood would develop stress fractures not to neglect the fact that polar bears and exotic species would somehow have to migrate back to their natural habitats but then perhaps plate tectonics took place in this span of time with land masses moving to their present locations in a matter of days. The ark was sent on a huge tube as a result of one of these tsunamis created by massive land movement and settled in Independence Missouri where they were greeted by unicorns and leprechauns.
My question for one of your bible literalists is why did the big guy stop turning people into pillars of salt, or leveling cities, or talking to people as a burning bush, or all the other wonderous things that took place in the Bronze Age?
2006-12-26 09:32:58 · answer #1 · answered by Rico E Suave 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, he really took two of every kind (not necessarily specie, because some are really sub-kinds - meaning their is a loss of info, not a gain) of animal, except of the clean animals of which he took seven or seven pairs depending on how you read it. It could be done. There are feasibility studies that work out possible logistics, even if God didn't cause hibernation (which many animals can), so the animals would need to be fed and walked and waste taken away. Others on here have copied materials from some of the feasibility materials, if you searched for Noah on yahoo answers you will find them.
The ark was humongous, it might compare to a 4 story office building, only longer. It had 3 stories. The avg. animal size is that of a sheep and those that have longer lives would arrive a year before they were ready to procreate (meaning alligators and dinosaurs, etc. would not be anywhere near full size and might even be considered small). If God can create the universe and all that is therein in six days, He can take care of a small (compared to the whole world) group of people and animals on a boat.
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Many cultures have the story of the flood. They got it from their ancestors that go clear back to Noah. The essentials of the story are usually very similar because someone who was there past it down. I don't know why anyone who was there and lived thru the flood would not pass it down to their children along with why it happened but it only takes a generation to lose much of a story, and add their own ideas to it. I suspect that is what happened to the babylon story. It just lost the reason, and people began to doubt the truth. Either that, or their was a local flood years later.
You cannot state that Noah's flood was local, unless you say that God broke His promise to Noah not to flood the earth again. God does NOT lie.
2006-12-26 09:44:30 · answer #2 · answered by Bre 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And 7 of some.
2006-12-26 09:26:08 · answer #3 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, thats easy.
The rabbies just stole the story while they were living in Babylon.
There the story of Ut'Napishtim was very common.
He survived a flood, but not one that covered the whole earth. The babylonians could count and knew, there would never be enough water to cover the whole of the earth.
Not without an earthquake that would destroy all of mankind and leave noone, not even someone with an ark.
They did it up a bit, here an edge, there a surplus, and voila, there it was, the story of Noah.
2006-12-26 09:31:42 · answer #4 · answered by sanctusilluminatus 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When you consider the size of the ark as stated, You realize that all the species of animals on earth would not fit. Not to mention they couldn't go back to lands across the sea. Maybe it was a local flood of the known world . No one will ever know. If you want to reject the bible, do so at you own peril.
2006-12-26 09:38:50 · answer #5 · answered by morris 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Noah Love is the most beautiful name for a girl. I also was thinking of changing my name to Noah Love!?
2016-05-23 08:45:21 · answer #6 · answered by Maria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You seem to believe that disproving the literal word-for-word truth of some stories in the Bible makes the Bible as a whole seem foolish.
Foolish unbeliever.
Why do mothers read or sing nursery rhymes to their little children?
Are those meaningless too just because they aren't true?
What about Santa Claus?
Are we corrupting innocent minds by telling them about him?
My point is that stories don't have to be true to have meaning and to teach us lessons.
Read my answer to your other question about the Flood to know the meaning of that particular story if you please.
2006-12-26 10:22:11 · answer #7 · answered by STILL standing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he did. Why don't you take the Bible to a math teacher and actually measure out how BIG the Ark was. It comes out to something like the equivalent of 1000 box cars (train box cars) worth of space.
Do the math and then believe it.
2006-12-26 09:29:15 · answer #8 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2006-12-26 09:26:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have the silly idea that he left out the fish, but I can't tell you what the bible says on that matter.
2006-12-26 09:38:41 · answer #10 · answered by NaturalBornKieler 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋