Questions for Creationists (pt. 6) can you answer these?

Question

What did all of the carnivores eat after leaving the Ark? (This is not a question about what they ate on the Ark.) In other words, explain how the food chain worked before the present ratios of a few predators to many prey.

Explain how a viable population was established for all of those animal kinds from only a single pair of each (keep in mind genetic bottlenecking).


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So, most of the answers look like - the animals just ate the dead animals that had been bloated by the stagnant water for 8 months, or they were magically vegetarian and they ate the decaying plant matter that hadn't seen sunlight in 8 months.

OR, smaller animals bread fast - so the first wolf that chomps a rabbit has lost its mate (and their being thousands of carnivours even if we don't include extinct animals they would have been eating thousands per day).

And people say creationsist don't put much thought into what they believe.

Answer 1

That's why there aren't any unicorns.

Answer 2

As for what Carnivores would eat, First almost all Carnivores are also carrion eaters. Carrion should have been plentiful. Also the animals on the Ark would have had time to reproduce before the flood was gone, even though I doubt to the point where the Carnivores could have survived at that point, that reproduction along with the Carrion should have sufficed. Also some of the Carnivores would have been actually been Omnivores. The one question I have is did some of he animals die (as in extinct) after the flood due to the environmental conditions. This is not noted in the Bible

Genetic bottlenecking,simply means that the overall reduction of a specie’s population has left only a relatively few number of individuals to repopulate. This results in a reduction of genetic diversity. This does not mean that they cannot reproduce and create a viable population. It would only reduce the diversity within that specie's for a given time. Also again I am not opposed to the idea that some specie's would have died out after the flood.

Answer 3

Genetic bottlenecking is a problem that takes place now, nearly 5000 years later, not 1000 years after creation when there was a lot less genetic variable. As for the Carnivores, just how many do you think there was? Only need one set of felines, single set of canines. Bears may or may not have been carnivores, as is evident with the Pandas, a variety that likely should have died off centuries ago.

The Hyena is related to the Meerkat, so which came first? The Meerkat is an insect eater.

As for prey, you might note how fast rabbits breed. Even with a flood, there would still have been significant plant growth left over for them to feed on and they will reproduce faster when there is food available. In fact, that little fact just came out in the last week. There were also other fast breeding prey animals.

Everything changed after the flood. A lot more UV radiation was hitting the Earth, plus the changes in the environment.

Answer 4

"What did all of the carnivores eat after leaving the Ark? In other words, explain how the food chain worked before the present ratios of a few predators to many prey."

There is no Biblical authority that I have to answer your question. If I were to answer, it would be only on what I think happend, with no source for you to refer to.

"Explain how a viable population was established for all of those animal kinds from only a single pair of each (keep in mind genetic bottlenecking)."

I want you to know that you have it wrong. Some animals had seven of each kind. You perhaps forgot that.
I think that the major point that you are missing is that God can do anything. If he needed animals to procreate faster for a time, then he got it done. But once again, I have no scriptuaral authority to give you a source related definitive answer.

Answer 5

I would have to think the food chain still worked. Bigger animals eat smaller animals, smaller animals produce offspring at a faster rate. I think that in the amount of time on the ark, there would have been a whole lot of small animals for the larger animals to eat (remember the animals came in 2s and 7s) There would also have been some plantlife by this time too, as the dove brought back an olive branch.

Sorry I dont have a lot of scientific data, but this is what seems logical to me.

Answer 6

Well first off there were plenty of creaters in the ocean that survived the flood without having to be on the ark. But seriously, if you had read the story, you could answer this question yourself. The bible gives it to us. But now whether you want to believe it or not, that is up to you. Here is the answer:

"Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything."
- Genesis 9:1-3

Before the flood all creaters were herbivores.


This is how God prevented "genetic bottlenecking":

"The LORD then said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven [a] of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made."

There was seven of each species and the unclean animals God cared less about. cause they were unclean.

Answer 7

Please read the account of the flood in the Bible. Genesis 8:11 shows that a dove that Noah had released from the ark returned with what?? What does that indicate? Was not life, foliage, returning & flurishing? Read how long it rained and how long Noah waited till they left the ark. It was a LOT longer than 40 days!! But read it, the whole story for yourself. Could not the animals that were on the ark have become pregnent ..(given or soon to give, birth?) Could life have gone on as bisuness as usual from there?

Answer 8

When they were on the Ark, these animals mated. Considering the gestation period, some animals took long, some didn't... After the flood, Mother chicken may have laid a thousand eggs before Papa and Mama lion got to eat Mr. or Mrs. Chicken?

Answer 9

It's just like it says in Isaiah 11:6-9. It talks about the different animals residing with each other including humans, all getting along without causing any harm. The lion will actually eat straw like the bull. At first the green vegatation of the earth was for all creatures. God can sooth his creatures so that they get along, he did the same thing before, during, and right after the flood so that they could repopulate the earth. Also read Genesis 1:29,30.

Answer 10

I can answer that very simply.... because in talking about the time of the flood and the ark you have to consider this was all a work of God. It was a mircale for God to be able to place all these animals in the ark to begin with... but consider this is the same God that fed the multitudes of people with the fish and the loaves..... God provided for the animals on the ark as well as Noah and his family...... If God can do this... then why is it so hard to accept that he could care for the needs of the animals after they left the ark?

God bless you

Answer 11

We are not told in Scripture exactly WHEN the animals became carnivorous; it could have been several generations later.

As for how the population grew; human life spans were much longer in those days, so it's reasonable to assume that the animals lived longer as well, and could reproduce for much longer.
Evolutionists have a BIGGER problem tro explain. You think that the entire population of living creatures came from rocks!