if Noah only had 2 off each animal , wouldn't that of led to inbreeding {an impossibility for future stocks !}

Answer 1

LION... you are answering on the basis of POSSIBILITY again, which MEANS NOTHING! it is also, then, possible for god to have drowned all the evil humans without NEEDING a flood, just by his magic! also, your calculations concerning insects. thousands of DIFFERENT kinds of termites, different bees, flies, etc. they CANNOT fit into a small area and would most likely kill eachother. spiders? and flies live for 24 hours and procreate like crazy. after 40 days the ark would be FULL of flies, again, underminding your small space requirement for the insects. every animal would have to eat. there would be nearly as much food as there were animals. the flood account is false, and improbable. especially considering the fact that there is NO geological evidence of a worldwide flood.

to answer the questioner's question... hahah... sorry for the diversion... yes. incest in animals and people, once again. god likes incest.

Answer 2

Dude,

Seriously? Your mocking the bible for believing 2 of each unclean animal and 7 pairs of every clean animal produced enough genetic diversity to survive after a flood in an obviously miraculous story, but the same mind that found that impossible has no problem believing all humans are descended from a single Homo Sapien woman who evolved in Africa 100,000 years ago, and she had enough bio diversity that we survive today?

And why in a story about an enormous boat piloted by a 600+ year old man after a world wide flood, this element struck you as the big knock out unscientific statement. The story is about a miracle. Miracles don't follow the rules of science or they wouldn't be called miracles. They'd be called Tuesdays.

I have no problem with people rejecting religion, but you need to apply your logic across the board, chief. Your shooting off rounds in the fireworks factory and don't even realize it. Sit on the couch and think about stuff for ten minutes.

Answer 3

I want to know how he could tell a male from a female mosquito.
I also want to know what God felt about all the life in the sea escaping his wrath.

The Sea escaped his wrath entirely, yet the Land suffered tremendously and life ceased to exist (so long poor Unicorn!!)


And why God felt that 'clean' animals were so much more deserving of escaping death...if he did not like them then 'break the mold' Dude..!!

My guess is this is a mistranslation from the original Zoroastrian account of the great flood which the early Hebrews copied while in captivity in Babylon.

Yeah.... the story of Noahs Ark is a COPY of another religions account of the great flood....... ain't it great?

Just for giggles..... the 'evidence' of a catastrophe are there on the top of the island of Malta if anyone care to go there. Marks across the highest hill on Malta show conclusively that some kind of huge wave splashed over the island. Discovery ran a series of articles and even a show on it.

The black Sea alone is proof..... there are remains of man-made structures 300 feet down under the surface of the Black Sea spotted and recorded by Robert Ballard, the guy who found the Titanic.

Answer 4

Noah had 7 pairs of some animals. Yes there was inbreeding, but the genetics were pure enough for this not to have been a problem. In his day, people lived to be almost 1000 years old, so the animals would have been "very healthy" too.

Answer 5

Well if you consider the inbreeding of the people back then before the human race really got started, it's got to start from somewhere and two is always how it begins. You don't just get a pile of people turning up. God made one man and one woman.

One of each animal would have been fine back then, until the deterioration of genes as time has gone on. But it's gotta start somewhere and before the flood, the state of the world would have been FAR superior to what it was afterwards. Those that survived the flood, would have still been excellent specimens of humanity, and the animals the same, but the flood latered the world to such a degree, that everything from then on was in deterioration.

Answer 6

Genetics had not been corrupted to the point they are today ... these animals had near-pure blood (i.e. inbreeding wouldn't matter). Also, when Noah collected the animals for God I'm sure each pair was the best genetic stock available (i.e. the parents of each species would have had DNA 10-50 times purer than today).

Genesis 7:2-3
(2) Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
(3) Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

Answer 7

I think if you were to read the bible, you would see that you are wrong about the number of animals that were on the ark. Don't listen to other people. Read the account of Noah and the flood in the book of Genesis. It is the first book in the bible. You can impress your friends with a little known fact of how many animals there were on the ark.

Answer 8

Why do you feel the need to discredit this story using scientific data. Isn't the whole story in itself enough to prove it impossible?
I mean just think about it all the animals, and food alone, do you really believe man had the engineering skills to build such a vessel over a thousand years ago

Answer 9

It's not just the animals - how about the humans? Weren't they all Noah's family?

I have the same problem with the Adam and Eve story.

The Bible seems to have quite a lot of people getting closer to their brothers/sisters than we would consider appropriate today.

A christian once told me that this is because incest was ok until the time of Moses.

Hmmmm.

Answer 10

Yes, of course it would have. It is a ridiculous story. Even the "clean" animals he only had seven of and that would still be a problem.

The genetic pool more "dense." What does that mean? DNA worked different back then?