Let's look at 2 fundamental problems with the "Noah's Ark" story, shall we?

Question

1. Does Noah bring one or seven pairs of animals on board the ark? There seems to be some argument there among the religious "scholars," so I wonder...

2. What about insects like ants that do not reproduce in pairs? It would not matter if Noah brought a pair of ants on board the ark, insects like ants reproduce when hundreds of worker ants fertilize one queen ant. Did "god" not know this?

Answer 1

3. Inbreeding among all God's creatures immediately after the flood...

Answer 2

Well there should be no discussion of the 1 or 7 pairs, most creatures were limited to 1 pair, there were a set of creatures that was to be brought on in 7 pairs (like sheep etc.) This is fairly clear in the story.

Good point on the insects, sorta, except hundreds of workers do not mate with the queen, ant mating process is similiar to bees, the drones or males will court her, one will be successful and then the drones all die or are expelled. The workers in both ants and bees are females....

Answer 3

Gary: FYI is someone is questioning the bible (refer to question, obviously questioning reality of the story, hence reality of the bible) please do not quote from the bible. Quoting to someone from a source that they do not believe is real/accurate/honest does not enforce any point you have, it is plain stupid. It is like you not believing Darwin, but me quoting it to try to make a point. Can you understand that I wonder?

As for the ark story, the size of the ark is also not large enough to house all the animals, plus food for them to last 375 days. Most people read that it rains for 40 days and 40 nights, but forget that the animals were on that ark for over 1 year. The humans would have never had the opportunity to sleep for constantly feeding that large an amount of animals plus then cleaning out their stalls/cages, etc.

Clark H and the other Christians: You state that insects were not taken on the ark, but obviously you have not read the bible. Genesis 7:8 clearly states: "Of clean beasts, and of beasts that [are] not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth," Note the term "EVERYTHING THAT CREEPETH UPON THE EARTH", that means insects as well. Learn to read the book that you follow so closely so that you do not contradict yourselves.

Answer 4

A bigger problem:

If the mythical ark really existed, how come it can't be found?

Scientists have no difficulty locating and identifying asteroids as small as 30 feet across and travelling at 50000 miles per hour through space from over 150,000,000 miles away in the asteroid belt.

Meanwhile, Ararat is a fixed location, a mountain 6000 feet high and supposedly a 600 foot boat lies somewhere on it, yet satellites can't locate it. Does it move around on its own or something? Or was it never there and does not exist?


Additional:

Despite my stating two facts about asteroids and the inability of the religious to find Noah's dingy - oops, dinghy - oops, ark - I see some godbot already has his pansies in a twist over it.

He's crushing his flowers because of my words. Clearly, the religious don't like dealing in facts.


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Answer 5

God doesn't know much. There are also over 300,000 species of beetle alone. Unless we have evolution mixed with this irrational story, Noah would have to spend a lifetime collecting just insects around the world.

How did he feed the animals? Did he separate the poisonous snakes from the regular snakes so he'd have no difficulty taking them back to their respective countries? How'd he know which were poisonous? He had to make sure to note that the marsupials go to Australia. He also had to have aquariums on his ark, because with a worldwide flood, the salinity, PH, etc of the water would kill both freshwater and saltwater life alike.

Or maybe it's just an old sumerian tale that the christians stole for themselves.

Answer 6

You'd think God would find an easier way to kill every person on Earth exept Noah and his family, while keeping all the animals on Earth alive. If I was omnipotent, I would simply snap my fingers and make all the bad people disappear. Shouldn't be too hard for an omnipotent God. Makes much more sense than the ark story.

Answer 7

Oh wow! You are so smart . . . you just disproved nothing

Ants float
So do most insects . . . I don't think they came aboard or needed to . . .

If you reread the story, there were some animals God had Noah bring some extras . . . why? I do not pretend to know. Christians do not claim to know every detail . . .

Are you aware that the Human Genome Project "maps" that we all (humans) came out of Africa? Putting to question the whole evolution process so prevalently taught in grade school? Were you aware that this is why Scientist are looking off the planet for our origin? Because the facts just don't add up?

Well, the Bible has been proposing this all along . . . .

Answer 8

Just 2 fundamental problems? But there are so many others.

Thanks for the one about the ants, I hadn't heard that one before. I'm sure it will apply to a variety of other animal species that don't reproduce strictly in pairs.

Answer 9

Im sorry God didnt mention the mating habits of ants in the Bible. Maybe Noah only took one animal on the Ark and it evolved into all the other species. Cause thats alot more likely than he took two of every species.

Answer 10

There are far more than 2 fundamental problems with the story of Noah. Scientists (oops, I said a bad word!) cannot find any possible way for Noah to have built a ship large enough to collect all the species that exist on the planet under one roof and sustain them for 40 days. The various insect and animal life on Madagascar alone makes this nearly impossible.

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Answer 11

Let us look at the Bible! To answer your question on #1 it says this:
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis 7:2
So there were 7 of the clean animals and 2 of the unclean, it describes what animals are clean and unclean later on in the BIble. In Deuteronomy 14 it talks about it.
For your question #2, the Bible doesn't speak on this. But I know God created ants and that he knew what to do to get them to be able to reproduce since they are here today and weren't destroyed by the flood. Most likely, insects came in different pairs then the animals, but I don't know.
Hope this helped.