By God showing him and helping him. God is a wonderful person.
2007-01-14 13:24:27
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answer #1
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answered by evets.pilot 2
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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.
2007-01-14 13:32:28
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answer #2
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answered by Jeff C 4
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Genesis 7:16 (New Living Translation)
New Living Translation (NLT)
16 A male and female of each kind entered, just as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord closed the door behind them.
If you study biology kind (or type) and species are different. A cat is still a cat and a mosquito is still a mosquito just different species within a type. Micro- evolution is just the adaptation of a species to its environment and can be readily seen while macro evolution (creating new species is God's work)
2007-01-14 13:28:08
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answer #3
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answered by Pilgrim in the land of the lost 5
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So who says that he did? Noah didn't go out and look for the animals; God brought them to him. I think that he only got two beatles total. I don't think that he took three hundred thousand different species. The Bible just says after their kind.
2007-01-14 13:32:27
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answer #4
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answered by La Gringa 2
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supposedly he only gathered animals to the species level, which is where we are reproductively distinct. Since he only gathered same species, he would have just gathered beatles, not each and every type.
He would have gathered a dog, not a doberman, a boxer, a poodle, etc.
But excellent question. Although this aspect of the question has been 'so-called' answered in the bible, the real question becomes, how did their survival continue.........What did they do with waste, How did they feed all the carnivores, herbivores, etc.? How did they keep meat fresh, how did they keep vegetables fresh? Air circulation? Exercise? Separation of carnivorous animals, from non- aggressive species, etc.????
2007-01-14 13:28:00
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answer #5
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answered by drpsholder 4
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It's good to know that some people realised this was a trick question. The Beatles obviously didn't exist back then, unless Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and the other guys are much older than they let on...
2007-01-16 01:42:31
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answer #6
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answered by Chris W 2
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the same way he fit two elephants, giraffes, lions, bears, rhino's, hippo's, zebra's, several different types of lizards and a crap load more animals alllllll onto one boat, and not a good boat either!!
The bible has an answer to EVERYTHING -- the creatures came to him!!
So the next question is, how did all three thousand beetle species walk across the earth to Noah
2007-01-14 13:25:48
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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He didn't ! he just took a pair of beetles just as the bible said,
Gen 6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
There might be 300,000 different type of beetles, but they are still beetles & in the same family after there own kind, so he didnt need to take that many
Gen 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Gen 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Gen 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Gen 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
2007-01-14 13:40:02
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answer #8
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answered by ? 2
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There are only 4 species of Beatles, john paul, george, ringo. And 2 of them are extinct.
Seriously, these christians will believe anything.
2007-01-14 13:27:27
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answered by Nemesis 7
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There is only one species of Beatles, four men from Liverpool. As far as the insect beetle, the story of Noah is too absurd to be believed.
2007-01-14 13:25:48
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answer #10
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answered by Anonymous
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I don't even believe in the Story of Noah's Ark, and I can answer this.
First, God can guide the animals towards Noah.
Second, we don't know what the world looked like before the flood. Creationists believe in Catastrophism, which means that the flood would have altered the world.
2007-01-14 13:29:06
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answered by Mr. Bad Day 7
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