Its impossible for Noah to do what he did. Wanna know why?

Question

Despite the fact that he had to store hundreds of kinds of different centepedes, ants, sname, and praying mantises. BTW there are millions of subspecies. The whole world would be covered in water. This is where a problem arises.

If the whole world was covered in water, this would drown out all plant life on the land. ALso, the fresh water would have mixed with the salt water covering the whole world with salt water.(lets just say, since the world is 2/3's salt water, it would be mixed with 1/3 fresh. Thats still a high concentration of salt water. Not as potent as it is now, but its still potent.) Not only would this be devestating to fresh water creatures, they would all die because of it. Also the salt water creatures, many of them would die because of the lack of salt to water ratio.

Oh yeah and if the salt got into the ground, it wouldnt allow plants to grow for a while, because its toxic. How would all these animals survive if all plants where destroyed due to the flood?

EDIT, SO about those few christains that dont believe this story. How come you can pick and choose what you believe and not believe?

Also i think they came up with this story to answer the unknown of why shells where in the deserts. Since they knew nothing of plate techtonics they came up with something to describe this phenomenon.

Answer 1

2 Pet. 3:3-8 tells us that people who scoff at the Bible are "willingly ignorant" of the Creation and the Flood. In order to understand science and the Bible, we must not be ignorant of those two great events in Earth’s history.

Over 250 Flood legends from all parts of the world have been found. Most have similarities to the Genesis story.
Noah’s ark was built only to float, not to sail anywhere. Many ark scholars believe that the ark was a "barge" shape, not a pointed "boat" shape. This would greatly increase the cargo capacity. Scoffers have pointed out that the largest sailing ships were less than 300 feet because of the problem of twisting and flexing the boat. These ships had giant masts, and sails to catch the wind. Noah's ark need neither of those and therefore had far less torsional stress.
Even using the small 18-inch cubit ,the ark was large enough to hold all the required animals, people, and food with room to spare.
The length-to-width ratio of 6 to 1 is what shipbuilders today often use. This is the best ratio for stability in stormy weather. (God thinks of everything!)
The ark may have had a "moon-pool" in the center. The larger ships would have a hole in the center of the bottom of the boat with walls extending up into the ship. There are several reasons for this feature:
It allowed water to go up into the hole as the ship crested waves. This would be needed to relieve strain on longer ships.
The rising and lowering water acted as a piston to pump fresh air in and out of the ship. This would prevent the buildup of dangerous gasses from all the animals on board.
The hole was a great place to dump garbage into the ocean without going outside.
The ark may have had large drogue (anchor) stones suspended over the sides to keep it more stable in rough weather. Many of these stones have been found in the region where the ark landed.
Noah lived 950 years! Many Bible scholars believe the pre-Flood people were much larger than modern man. Skeletons over 11 feet tall have been found! If Noah were taller, his cubit (elbow to fingertip) would have been much larger also. This would make the ark larger by the same ratio.
God told Noah to bring two of each kind (seven of some), not of each species or variety. Noah had only two of the dog kind, which would include the wolves, coyotes, foxes, mutts, etc. The "kind" grouping is probably closer to our modern family division in taxonomy, and would greatly reduce the number of animals on the ark. Animals have diversified into many varieties in the last 4400 years since the Flood. This diversification is not anything similar to great claims that the evolutionists teach.
Noah did not have to get the animals. God brought them to him (Gen. 6:20, "shall come to thee").
Only land-dwelling, air-breathing animals had to be included on the ark (Gen. 7:15, "in which is the breath of life," 7:22). Noah did not need to bring all the thousands of insects varieties.
Many animals sleep, hibernate, or become very inactive during bad weather.
All animals (and people) were vegetarians before and during the Flood according to Gen. 1:20-30 with Gen. 9:3.
The pre-Flood people were probably much smarter and more advanced than people today. The longer life spans, Adam’s direct contact with God, and the fact that they could glean the wisdom of many generations that were still alive would greatly expand their knowledge base.
The Bible says that the highest mountains were covered by 15 cubits of water. This is half the height of the ark. The ark was safe from scraping bottom at all times.
The large mountains, as we have them today, did not exist until after the Flood when "the mountains arose and the valleys sank down" (Ps. 104:5-9, Gen. 8:3-8).
There is enough water in the oceans right now to cover the earth 8,000 feet deep if the surface of the earth were smooth.
Many claim to have seen the ark in recent times in the area in which the Bible says it landed. There are two primary schools of thought about the actual site of the ark . Much energy and time has been expended to prove both views. Some believe the ark is on Mt. Ararat, covered by snow (CBS showed a one-hour special in 1993 about this site). The other group believes the ark is seventeen miles south of Mt. Ararat in a valley called "the valley of eight" (8 souls on the ark). The Bible says the ark landed in the "mountains" of Ararat, not necessarily on the mountain itself.
The continents were not separated until 100-300 years after the Flood (Gen. 10:25). The people and animals had time to migrate anywhere on earth by then.
The top 3,000 feet of Mt. Everest (from 26,000-29,000 feet) is made up of sedimentary rock packed with seashells and other ocean-dwelling animals.
Sedimentary rock is found all over the world. Sedimentary rock is formed in water.
Petrified clams in the closed position (found all over the world) testify to their rapid burial while they were still alive, even on top of Mount Everest.
Bent rock layers, fossil graveyards, and poly-strata fossils are best explained by a Flood.
People choose to not believe in the Flood because it speaks of the judgment of God on sin (2 Pet. 3:3-8).

Answer 2

This is very easy to answer; first of all God's holy spirit can do anything it wants, so don't think that God did not know all this. What is important is that Noah and his six family members survived and the rest of that wicked world was destroyed-that was the real issue there. All that Noah did was to show faith and live so that the human race could continue on, that is why we are alive today. If God can make the universe why can't He solve such insignificant details. Another thing that is significant here is the construction of the ark; every major ship that has been built has been built with the same dimensions as the ark, they are the most efficient dimensions for ship building to this day. Remember that with men many things are impossible, but with God nothing is impossible.....KECK

Answer 3

Well, perhaps when it rained the rain water, being so much of it and all, diluted the oceans salt water. Or perhaps it just didn't matter because the salt might have gone with the run off as the waters receded. Where did the dove that Noah sent out find the olive branch? Look at New Orleans, after the flood the ground is beginning to push up plants and they had a mixture of salt water and swamp water too.

Answer 4

We are taught not to question or doubt God. With God all things are possible. Why would He have Noah build an ark in the middle of no where anyway. God had His own plans and I'm sure many plants were also taken aboard the ark although the Bible doesn't mention it. Face it they didn't use the animals for food. God provided for Noah same as He does for those of us who believe today. Sounds like you thought this question thru long and hard but the fact is it all comes down to faith. You have ti\o stand for something or you'll fall for anything. Yes that's a song but has much meaning.

Answer 5

Actually Noah did really exist!

A few years ago archeologists discovered tablets in Iraq that described the TRUE story...

He was a Sumarian (regional) king who got caught one year when the Euphrates River flooded. Apparently it was a once a century thing. The spring thaw came very suddenly at the same time as early monsoon rains and his annual houseboat/barge trip down the river to the city became something of an adventure. The vessel in question was really only big enough to hold his own farm animals and lots of grain and beer which he was carrying to trade. The floodwaters carried him and his family all the way out into the gulf and they drifted about for two weeks before hitting land. Apparently they had to drink all the beer after their water ran out.

Of course the guys who wrote the Old Testament used a lot of "artistic licence".

Answer 6

There is equal possibility of there being both God and Aliens--and little credible evidence for either. Monuments such as Stonehenge and the Pyramids were built by MEN not aliens (give me ONE bit of evidence proving man couldn't build thse monuments--if they hadn't experimented and built such structures, stretching their capabilities, we'd probably all be sitting in chilly huts right now looking at the fire, not sitting on the internet). These sites are NOT all interconnected-- places like Machu Picchu and Aztec pyramids are all thousands of years later than the Egyptian Pyramids and Stonehenge. There WAS no world wide flood either; this is testable. Certainly many cultures have legends of great floods; some of these may be folk memory from ancient tsunsami, or even memory of the retreat of the Ice at the end of the Ice Age, when lakes and rivers could be suddenly formed.

Answer 7

Noah's Ark is on the mount Ararat in ancient Armenia(present Turkey) and under the Black Sea of Turkey is fresh water. There is an ancient city under the mediterranean sea of Turkey. I am 100 % Armenian coming from Sumerians and descendents of Noah and I survived the flood believing GOD.

Answer 8

When I first became a christian I didn't believe the flood story either. Then I did some research and man, I was amazed.
There's actual evidence there was a world wife flood, there's photo's of a HUGE boat on top of Mount Ararat and more.
One of the most fascinating scientific discoveries in recent times regarding a universal flood came from some scientists who were not searching for any evidence of the Flood. It came from oceanographers in the Gulf of Mexico who were doing some rather routine research on coral and sediments of the ocean floor.

Their two oceanographic vessels had pulled from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico several long, slender core samples of the sediment, which includes the fossil shells of one-celled plankton called foraminifera. While still alive, these organisms lock into their shells a chemical record of the temperature and salinity of the water. When they reproduce, the shells fall away and drop to the bottom. A cross-section of that ocean bed carries a record of climates that the oceanographers say go back more than 100 million years.

The cores were analyzed in two different investigations—by Cesar Emiliani of the University of Miami, and by James Kennett of the University of Rhode Island and Nicholas Shack of Cambridge University. Both analyses pointed to a dramatic drop in the salinity of the water, providing compelling evidence of a vast flood of fresh water into the Gulf of Mexico thousands of years ago.

Cesar Emiliani explains the results: ”A huge amount of ice-melt water rushed into the Gulf of Mexico and produced a sea-level rise that spread around the world with the speed of a tidal wave.” He adds, “We know this because the oxygen isotope ratios of the foraminifera shells show a marked temporary decrease in the salinity of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It clearly shows that there was a major period of flooding from 12,000 to 10,000 years ago, with a peak about 11,600 years ago. There is no question that there was a flood and there is also no question that it was a universal flood” (“Noah, the Flood, the Facts,” Reader’s Digest, U.S. edition, September 1977, p. 133).

It is also worth mentioning that the radiocarbon dating used to establish the number of years is imprecise after 4,000 years, so the time of this universal deluge could be closer to the 4,300 years described in the Bible as the time of the biblical Flood.

Another recent discovery that could have a relation to the inundation of the Gulf of Mexico is the finding by geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman of the sudden flooding of the Black Sea basin around 6,000 to 7,000 years ago (according to their dating). “The salt water,” says Smithsonian magazine, “poured through the deepening channel, creating a waterfall 200 times the volume of Niagara Falls. In a single day enough water came through the channel to cover Manhattan to a depth two times the height of the (former) World Trade Center, and the roar of the cascading water would have been audible at least 100 miles away” (“Evidence for a Flood,” April 2000, electronic version).

An additional evidence of the Deluge being global and not local is the literally thousands of flood stories from around the world. One enterprising historian, Dr. Aaron Smith of the University of Greensboro, North Carolina, became obsessed with classifying all the flood accounts. “As a result of years of labor, he has collected a complete history of the literature on Noah’s Ark. There are 80,000 works in seventy-two languages about the Flood, of which 70,000 mention the legendary wreckage of the Ark” (Werner Keller, The Bible as History, 1980, p. 38).

It is hard to believe that if the Flood were only a local event, there would be 80,000 different accounts of it from around the world that describe it as universal in scope. GN

Answer 9

How would all these animals survive if all the plants where destroyed? Do you not think if God is capable of flooding the entire earth and sending His only Son to bear the sins of the world that He could sustain life after the flood? God is so much bigger than your biggest doubt.

Answer 10

The earth is the Lords and all it's fullness, The world and those who dwell theirin. For He has founded it upon the seas, and estadlished it upon the waters (Psalm 24:1-2)

So God can do what ever He wants. Jackoff!

Answer 11

The Reality of Noah's Ark:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bdC1re_NqkI

How did the animals fit on Noah's Ark:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/answersbook/arksize13.asp

Was there proof of a global flood:

http://www.inplainsite.org/html/the_flood.html