7 pairs of every animal on the Ark? Do you have any idea how much 14 elephants weigh?

Question

No boat made out of wood would have been able to stay afloat carrying 14 elephants.

And there was 7 pairs of ALL THE OTHER ANIMALS too?

Please.

Answer 1

THERE WERE ONLY 2 PAIRS OF EACH ANIMAL! ONE MALE AND ONE FEMALE!

Answer 2

You dont know your bible very well do you? the 7 pairs of animals were the clean animals. The ones that would be used for raising for food. I'm sorry, do you eat elephant? But elephants on the Ark would all have been very young animals. But i guess you didnt think of that.
The two pair of animals were the unclean, the ones we dont eat. Gen. chapter 7

Answer 3

no. there was one male and one female of each animal. just enough to make little elephants so the species wouldn't die out. so only two elephants. and why do you think they made such a big deal about the ark? the fact that it could hold all the animals while staying afloat is part of what makes it famous.

Answer 4

When Noah's Ark is found it will be the greatest archeological and anthropological discovery of all time. Finding an ancient wooden sea vessel, large enough to hold two of every basic type of land dwelling animal, buried high on Mt, Ararat would have the following implications:

This article is one of many found within Mr. Malone's excellent book, Search for the Truth. It would confirm that the entire surface of the planet had been covered by water within the last 6000 years.
It would confirm the factual basis for the flood legend which is present in every human culture on the planet.
It would again confirm reliability of the Biblical record of the human race.
It would mean that every land animal (including humans) has descended from the inhabitants of the Ark.
It would take more faith than ever to cling to the theory that man descended from ape-like creatures.
The fossils would have to be interpreted as mainly a result of this flood, not the result of slow accumulation over time.

According to the Biblical text, Noah had over 100 years to build the ark which would have been an unmistakable witness to the impending judgment of God. Jesus not only referred to this event as a fact of history, but tied his imminent return to a time when the state of affairs on earth would be similar to those at the time of Noah (Matthew 24:37-39). If and when the ark is found, there will once again be an enormous monument pointing toward impending judgment. My hope when this happens is that those who have not placed their faith in Christ will wake up and do so because their opportunity may end soon.

The most common question asked about the validity of Noah's ark is, "How could millions of different animals fit on one small boat?"

First, there were not millions of animals. Not every "kind" of animal was needed to be on board. According to the Biblical text., neither insects nor amphibians would have been taken on board. Only those animals which could not have survived a year long flood needed to be on board. Furthermore, every minor variation of animal (species) was not present. Wolves, foxes, coyote, and dogs could have come from an original dog kind.
Making the generous assumption that the average animal size is as large as a sheep, and between 2 and 7 of each kind of animal were taken, 16,000 sheep-size animals, at the most, would have been on board. This number could have been as low as 2000 if the Biblical "kind" is equivalent to the family level of modern animal classification. These numbers include every known living and extinct type of mammal, bird, amphibian, and reptile.
This was no small boat. Noah and his family had over 100 years to construct a vessel longer that a football field and three stories high. The total space available was equivalent to 522 railroad stock cars. A stock car holds 240 sheep so the ark could have held 125,000 animals.
At most, only 40% of the total space was needed for all of the animals! The remainder would be used for food and storage.
The account of Noah's flood is similar to many other Biblical stories. They make perfect sense if you assume they mean exactly what they say and take time to study them carefully.

Answer 5

They weigh a great deal. And no boat made of anything could handle one pair of every species of animal on the planet and the amount of food they'd need for even a day, never mind 7 pairs. Not to mention that 8 people taking care of that many animals? Yeah right.

You'd need something roughly the size of a small continent to support them all and 8 people would never be able to handle taking care of all those animals.

Answer 6

If you were going to mate any animal, would you choose animals fully grown and past their prime as far as mating is concerned?
No. You would want, smaller, healthier animals that would for one, not take up much space, and two, have their full reproductive cycle ahead of them. Realize, Noah didn't know when the rains or the flood would stop. He would have chosen very young animals to take on the Ark because he didn't know when the flooding would be over.

Answer 7

Wait a minute - wasn't it only two elepahnts?
Reads Genesis 7:2 - the elephants were not clean animals.
Interstingly enough, they are now clean - we can actually eat elephants (except for national legal laws of course) since Jesus claimed all foods clean in Mark 7:19.

Answer 8

um there's only 1 pair of each animal which means ONLY 2....the fact that that made the boat so sacred was the fact that it was able to withhold that much animals

Answer 9

There were only two pairs of every animal. Noah took baby animals that were small in size.

Answer 10

7 each of the clean animals and 2 of each of the unclean animals.

Answer 11

yeah plus think about the idea of "every animal"
there are more species of animal than most
could fathom. Even our biggest modern boats
couldn't do that,let alone a primitive boat built by
an old man and his family. Plus where did he go
to get all these animals?