Many diseases can't survive in hosts other than humans. Many others can only survive in humans and in short-lived arthropod vectors. The list includes typhus, measles, smallpox, polio, gonorrhea, syphilis. For these diseases to have survived the Flood, they must all have infected one or more of the eight people aboard the Ark.
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2007-01-10 06:59:08 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
dewcoons, diseases take time to evolve. If NA was within the past 4000 years, that's not enough time for syphilis to evolve, given that it's been around for the past 3500.
2007-01-10 07:11:38 · update #1
Or the New Guinea Disease Kuru that can only be gotten by eating the brains of another sufferer? Which of Noah's crew had to eat the brains of a New Guinea Highlander and preserve this disease so that the People of New Guinea can enjoy it today!!
2007-01-10 07:13:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many of those diseases right now need a human host to survive, but, it's my belief that most of those diseases you cite started out as animal diseases. How long the diseases have been around in animals would then be unknown.
After the flood and for many, many years after that, man lived in very close proximity to their farm animals. Many people in the Middle Ages often had their cows, chickens, goats, and other animals in the house with them. This constant contact created an ideal vector for the one stray bacteria or virus to make the necessary jump to being contagious to humans only.
I suspect that God didn't tell these people to keep their animals THAT close to them. If they really did listen to God, then that animal to human transmission might not have happened and we wouldn't have many of the diseases of today.
2007-01-10 15:27:52 · answer #2 · answered by Wayne M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And if there was no Noah's ark, where did they start? There had to be a "first case" of each. What prevents that from happening after the ark just as easily as before the ark?
Pointless question....
2007-01-10 15:09:08 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Satan and his Demons brought this into the world to destroy God's perfect plan for us.
2007-01-10 15:46:05 · answer #4 · answered by jasmin2236 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ham, he was one dirty barstard.LOL
2007-01-10 15:04:43 · answer #5 · answered by naughtypiraterachel 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋