Every body knows the story, and have you read the bible, you would know the description of the arch and how big it is.
It just does not sit well in my mind. I f really there was a Noah, arch, animals and flood, how could he really manage doing that? Any suggestions?!
2007-01-18 18:50:02 · 10 answers · asked by Aadel 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The ark would have had to be more like 300,000 cubits long. And then the animals would have been cramped. It would have taken a regiment to keep them fed and the stalls clean.
2007-01-18 19:01:29 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. Bodhisattva 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There are a couple of theories...or more...I will give you a couple here:
1) The people before the flood were directly descended from Adam and Eve, the prototypes of our race. They were larger and perfect. Therefore, the measurements (a cubit) were based on the larger human being, and not to our current standards. The ark could have been three times larger than our current assumptions.
2) Microevolution--Noah took the prototypical animals which were the fore runners of our modern day animals. Through years of separation and intermingling, some of those animals have diverged into other varieties but certainly not other species (that would be macroevolution). Evidence: Humans are different, Dogs are different, Cats are different, Cattle are different, and many other species have variance depending on global locations and climates, but they are all able to interbreed (except where size might be very different). To believe in survival of the fittest you have to believe in creation as well...because those half-way links (mutations) would have been killed, or shunned by the more natural and fit ones...they could not have had viable offspring.
2007-01-18 19:04:11 · answer #2 · answered by Jalapinomex 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
According to the Bible the story of the Great Flood is told twice. Due to the Bible being written by different sources. One instance Noah is told to take seven pairs of animals and in the other it is one pair of "clean" animals as stated in the exodus. He didn't take every species of animal with him. The Bible is a "myth" stories that tell religious truths. There may have been a Great Flood and Noah took all of the animals but the moral of the story is that we have an all powerful God.
2007-01-18 20:58:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
First, the Ark was not a boat, but a box, which is fairly simple to build. It hold a lot more than any boat design.
He would not have taken such things as two dogs and tow wolves, as they are the same, canines. The same with felines and many other varieties. The Hyena and the Meerkat can cross breed, just as the house cat and the lion can, though I would use a male house cat with a female lion.
People keep thinking in term of every variety of animal needed to be in there, but only species, not every variety of a species.
2007-01-18 19:40:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
am i able to easily enunciate very obviously that the Holy Bible became no longer written by Jesus! it truly is a compilation of seventy 3 books written by quite some inspired persons, at the same time with Moses, Joshua, Matthew the Evangelist and John the Apostle. also, the various books of the Bible were written in distinct languages: Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. the instantly ahead variations are generally translated from the Latin variations, that were translated from the unique languages. The differences that the Church makes are all to do with linguistic transliteration. to boot to, Archbishop Ussher's chronology isn't known by the Christian community as precise. maximum human beings settle for Monsignor Lemaitre's massive Bang idea. Monsignor Lemaitre, obviously, became a Roman Catholic priest, even as Archbishop Ussher became an Anglican.
2016-11-25 19:52:54 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well its not called an arch. Its called an ark. But to answer your question, no Noah could not have done it by himself and he didn't do it by himself. God helped him do it. Noah Trusted in the Lord and He provided for Noah and the animals. Plain and simple.
2007-01-18 18:58:32 · answer #6 · answered by Tripper 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to the Bibles dimensions the Ark would have held millions of cubic feet of space, and took almost a hundred years to construct. That would leave time to place the food in the stalls ahead of time. If I was going to spend most of my life building a boat to carry that many animals I think I would have thought about the food somewhere. One thing I have noticed is people want to judge the animals by today's counts, first many species have many subspecies, Wolves for example. Red, Gray, Timber, etc..etc.. Dogs have hundreds of subspecies. I would think that he would have taken two dogs, two wolves, two cats, not a pair of poodles, a pair of beagles, a pair of labs, etc..etc.. It has been more than four thousand years since the Flood. Plenty of time for the different animals to evolve into the present day subspecies we have today
I also hoped he would have been smart enough to built poop shutes in the outer walls though to sweep the mess out!
2007-01-18 19:13:37 · answer #7 · answered by mark g 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's God's will that enabled Noah to build an arch big enough to accomodate a pair of various kind of animals. The arch must be quite big and he took a long time to complete it.
2007-01-18 18:55:38 · answer #8 · answered by jemmie_2004 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Noah's ark story is one of those highly unlikely stories doing rounds in the bible!
2007-01-18 18:56:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v19/i2/animals.asp
http://www.worldwideflood.com/default.htm
2007-01-18 18:56:53 · answer #10 · answered by Serena 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋