How did Noah Manage to Fit about 2 MILLION SPECIES OF ANIMALS onto his Boat?

Question

Wouldn't some of the animals starve, die of sickness, get crushed, or eat each other? And don't forget, you need a pair of each animal ;) And how does he have enough time to make sure the pair he chooses are each a different sex? What if he brings say, two male monkeys and doesn't realize it? Wouldn't that monkey race die out?

And what about the 300,000 species of beetles? Does Noah not care about the beetles? :(

Technically wouldn't plants die from drowning and lack of sunlight too? What then?

Thanks corona! :)

"Well you have all those animals, then you have to bring food for them, including hay and oops other animals which are to be eaten by the lions and tigers, etc. Then you pack them all on a boat and all the food on that boat, oh and I think 7 humans to feed them all and clean their stalls. Oh, and did they mention that the ark was on the water for 375 days. Imagine how much food would have had to have been packed. The elephants could not have survived due to their feet, elephants need to constantly move or they develop foot problems, not to name other animals who would have had to have been put down. But to some Christian, it all is possible. God just made it happen, I mean God did not have the power to miracle Noah a ark (the guy had to build it himself over multiple decades), but God just made them all live. Christians you have to admit this is a joke of a story that was taken from the story of Gilgamesh, Babylonian tale. "

Answer 1

The flood probably happened in one part of the world, which would have seemed like the whole world to Noah and his family. They would have only had to save the local animal species. God knows the difference between girl and boy monkeys. Dinosaurs had already died out by then, as had many types of prehistoric mammals. The plants would have grown back after the flood, as do plants after any flood. The flood was actual event that even scientists admit happened, at the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago.

Answer 2

Well you have all those animals, then you have to bring food for them, including hay and oops other animals which are to be eaten by the lions and tigers, etc. Then you pack them all on a boat and all the food on that boat, oh and I think 7 humans to feed them all and clean their stalls. Oh, and did they mention that the ark was on the water for 375 days. Imagine how much food would have had to have been packed. The elephants could not have survived due to their feet, elephants need to constantly move or they develop foot problems, not to name other animals who would have had to have been put down. But to some Christian, it all is possible. God just made it happen, I mean God did not have the power to miracle Noah a ark (the guy had to build it himself over multiple decades), but God just made them all live. Christians you have to admit this is a joke of a story that was taken from the story of Gilgamesh, Babylonian tale.

Answer 3

You might also ask how Noah managed to build a boat that big entirely from wood without it collapsing under its own weight, rotting completely through, and getting pounded to pieces by ocean waves and ravaged by salt water. Yeah, you need a little bit more than wood and pitch to make a big boat.

Oh, and there was very little ventilation, so the build-up of methane from all those farting animals would have been just lovely. Light a single oil lamp and the whole place goes FOOM.

The idea of all the animals being babies is not supported by the Bible, which says that God brought the animals to Noah. How did baby animals get there? Did their mamas drop them off like parents leaving their kids at a day care center? How could animals get there from faraway places like North America, Australia, and Antarctica? What about flightless birds? What about fish and aquatic mammals that would die in salt water? What about the millions of plants that could not survive such a deluge? (Seeds quickly rot in salt water.) And hibernation?? Most animals do NOT hibernate! Where do people get these ideas? That's as silly as the idea that there were only a few species back then, and they all evolved later. This is NOT supported by archeology, biology, or genetics. I swear, the stupid things people believe make me fear for the future of humanity. Will you idiots quit breeding already??

Answer 4

Well, heres the real kicker: It wasn't two. It was two of every dirty animal, and 7 of every clean animal. So there were even more than ya think. Also, just in case ya didn't know, there was not only Adam's immediate family onboard the Ark - the manuscrpts are quite clear that one of every flesh person was taken in as well. That means of each and every race, or ethnos, as it says.
Now, I ask you. Theres a great Creator who tells a common preacher man to build a great ship. Then the Creator causes the Heavens to open, and for it to rain continuously for how many days and nights? And you wonder whether some animals would starve, and what if they weren't the right sex?? This Creator could cause the elements of the weather to change, but yet could not control those details as well? Think a bit less in the flesh. God would have been very careful not to let the monkey race die out. Fear not. He's in control.

Answer 5

Peace!
The story of Noah and the Ark is a Near Eastern myth picked up by Jewish religious writers after the exile. It is a parable not an historical fact. The important thing is the revelation.
History shows that crises are sometimes solved through destruction and elimination. That is God's inspired message in the story.
There are many things in the Bible which are not meant as teaching. They are there for historical, cultural, geographical, poetic or other reasons. Another good example is the story of creation which is another myth. In fact, all the stories in Genesis 1-11 are all myths. So when reading the Bible we should read it in the same level it was written - spiritual. If you read it critically or literally God's message will not come to you.
God bless

Answer 6

To start with, the Bible says that Noah took two of every sort or kind onto the ark with him. A kind may mean something like one set of dogs, one set of horses, one set of predatory birds, one set of snakes. The diverse species may have later split from far fewer kinds of animals. To solve the problem of storing enough food and stopping fights between the animal, Noah probably chose to take young, immature animals. They would take up less space as well as produce more offspring as they aged than older animals would. It is not until after the company has left the ark that God gives man permissin to eat the flesh of animals. Perhaps animals that are now predatory were not at that time. You also ask how Noah would have had enough time to sort out the animals. The bible seems to indicate that the span of time between God's command to Noah and the beginning of the flood was about a hundred years. It should take far less time to distinguish a monkey's iny from an outy.

Answer 7

It is all a miracle. Even the ark itself is a miracle to be built. If God was not helping it out, the world will again be in darkness and in chaos as recorded in Genesis. See God is God and how would the finite challenges the infinite beings?

Yes, the book of revelation describes two events where the first is led by the Antichrist to war against Jesus and the second by the Devil himself just release from his 1000 years imprisonment. Both these resulted in their total defeat. The end is that all of them: the Antichrist, false prophet and the Devil are found cast into hell prepared for them..

Answer 8

Manage to fit it in and it was a tight fit at best and worst and last but not least and we've lost our lease and everything must go and lemme make sure that monkey isn't a lemur and ask stupid question just because I can and must be something better going on in my life but can't imagine what and I should buy a pet and Creationism and Creation and not all Christians believe but beat the dead horse and dead horses on the Ark and eohippus now extinct.

and the Pagans also too believe in a god also, but must make fun also of the Christians also and believe in magick also and it doesn't have a k on the end also and Pagans believe in every crazy myth also unless it came out of the Bible also and most of them wear a lot of patchouli and why is that?

Answer 9

I have often wondered that myself. The flood is a fact, but some choose to believe that Noah, his family and the animals on the ark were the only survivors. How did he feed them all? How did he know what to feed them?
Anyway the Great Flood is documented by many cultures in different Continent's. the Native Americans led animals an humans to the mountains as did the Asian people and the people of South America. From there Evolution continued.

Answer 10

There has been a lot of speculation about this. The most common theory is that the animals were very young and not full-grown and the demensions of the ark provided for more than enough room for each species of animal and food for them. Also, some of the species may have hibernated on the ark, so they wouldn't need food.