Do you think two of each sea creature was brought onto Noah's ark or did they just swim along during the flood

Question

Malcom Knoxville - Your comments speak volumes about your lack of intelligence. Thanks for your comments, you make us look better each time.

Answer 1

(Genesis 7:4) For in just seven days more I am making it rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will wipe every existing thing that I have made off the surface of the ground.”

He destroy the humans and animals that was in the surface of the ground...

Fishes survive the flood, they just got more water.

Answer 2

They didn't need to be in the ark; their environment was not destroyed. Noah took all land-dwelling, air-breathing creatures, not the sea-dwellers.

As for the salt water/fresh water fish: 1. perhaps there were large areas where the two waters didn't mix. Even the ocean has layers of water that are more or less salty. It's a factor in the effectiveness of sonar. 2. The ocean is continuing to get more salty. It is reasonable to assume it was less salty then. So what about salt-water fish? Perhaps in their original genes was the ability to adapt to various levels of salinity; as the ages passed with them living in increasingly salty oceans, they lost the ability to live in fresh water.

As for a previous answerer's allegation that not enough parents survived the flood to repopulate the earth: Remember that the original creation had no genetic defects. Adam and Eve's children married each other, and it was ok. The animals on the are were not long after creation and would have had few genetic mutations; thus, their offspring could interbreed for many generations before close genes became a problem.

They also had much variety in their genes. Look at dogs: these many breeds came from probably two original dogs on the ark. If we were to build a farm and put two (male and female) of each breed on it and let them interbreed at will, we would eventually come up with a medium-sized mutt. Each breed has lost the information necessary to produce the other breeds. The two on the ark would have had all that information.

Answer 3

Great question!

God gave Noah specifics on what to bring on to the ark:

Genesis 7:1-3 says:
1 After that Jehovah said to Noah: “Go, you and all your household, into the ark, because you are the one I have seen to be righteous before me among this generation. 2 Of every clean beast you must take to yourself by sevens, the sire and its mate; and of every beast that is not clean just two, the sire and its mate; 3 also of the flying creatures of the heavens by sevens, male and female, to preserve offspring alive on the surface of the entire earth.

Doesn't say anything about the fish and sea creatures.

Answer 4

A heavier thought...today, it is known that once a species sinks below a given number of "parents," the speicies will die out due to lack of sufficient gene pool. Why wasnt' that so in Noah's day? Something very fishy indeed, other than these fish!

Answer 5

They freely swam in the sea for the deluge filled the land with life sustaining water.

Answer 6

They swam around.

Dont quote me on this - But doesnt it actually say God commanded him to bring two of every "land" animal onto the ark???

Answer 7

Not even a retarded child would buy that moronic tale of Noah and his ark.

Perhaps that Noah dork was so shortsighted that what he thought was the 'Deluge' was in fact his farm being flooded by a heavy rainfall.

Oh, and all he knew of animals was cows, pigs, horses and hens, that was about all the animals in the world.

Answer 8

Good question. I would think they swam along side. Why would they have to exit what they live in?

Answer 9

They just swam through the whole thing. Why wouldn't they?

Answer 10

i want to know how all the freshwater fish survived when the oceans rose and filled the lakes with salt water.