How did Noah fit all those animals?

Question

Assuming its not a fiction, and that God helped him gather al the animals in one place.... The Ark was the size of 20 standard basketball courts, about 94,000 square feet. Assuming food and stuff take up maybe 20% of the space, that about 75,000 square feet. If you allow, say, 6 square foot per animal, that allows for about 6,000 pairs of animals... but we know he had 7 each of the clean animals, so maybe he had room for 3 or 4,000 kinds of animals. Sound right? Is that all the kinds of animals we have ever had... ignoing the gallion kinds of insects?

"Male and female they will be. Of the flying creatures according to their kinds and of the domestic animals according to their kinds, of all moving animals of the ground according to their kinds, two of each will go in there to you to preserve them alive.”

Answer 1

God made it so with his almighty power... because God willed it, Noah was able to fit so many animals, since he was following God's commands.

Answer 2

2) Was the ark's volume large enough to carry all the necessary types?

The Ark measured 300x50x30 cubits (Genesis 6:15) which is about 140x23x13.5 metres or 459x75x44 feet, so its volume was 43500 m3 (cubic metres) or 1.54 million cubic feet. To put this in perspective, this is the equivalent volume of 522 standard American railroad stock cars, each of which can hold 240 sheep.

If the animals were kept in cages with an average size of 50x50x30 centimetres (20x20x12 inches), that is 75,000 cm3 (cubic centimetres) or 4800 cubic inches, the 16,000 animals would only occupy 1200 m3 (42,000 cubic feet) or 14.4 stock cars. Even if a million insect species had to be on board, it would not be a problem, because they require little space. If each pair was kept in cages of 10 cm (four inches) per side, or 1000 cm3, all the insect species would occupy a total volume of only 1000 m3, or another 12 cars. This would leave room for five trains of 99 cars each for food, Noah’s family and ’range’ for the animals. However, insects are not included in the meaning of behemah or remes in Genesis 6:19-20, so Noah probably would not have taken them on board as passengers anyway.

Tabulating the total volume is fair enough, since this shows that there would be plenty of room on the Ark for the animals with plenty left over for food, range etc. It would be possible to stack cages, with food on top or nearby (to minimize the amount of food carrying the humans had to do), to fill up more of the Ark space, while still allowing plenty of room for gaps for air circulation. We are discussing an emergency situation, not necessarily luxury accommodation. Although there is plenty of room for exercise, skeptics have overstated animals’ needs for exercise anyway.

Even if we don’t allow stacking one cage on top of another to save floor space, there would be no problem. Woodmorappe shows from standard recommended floor space requirements for animals that all of them together would have needed less than half the available floor space of the Ark’s three decks. This arrangement allows for the maximum amount of food and water storage on top of the cages close to the animals.

Answer 3

‘How could Noah fit all those huge dinosaurs on the Ark?’ First, of the 668 supposed dinosaur genera, only 106 weighed more than ten tons when fully grown. Second, the Bible does not say that the animals had to be fully-grown. The largest animals were probably represented by ‘teenage’ or even younger specimens. It may seem surprising, but the median size of all animals on the Ark would most likely have been that of a small rat, according to Woodmorappe’s up-to-date tabulations, while only about 11 percent would have been much larger than a sheep.

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


Also, you might want to check out John Woodmorappe’s book Noah’s Ark: a Feasibility Study.

Answer 4

Yes, according to their kind. You only need a pair of felines, a pair of canines, etc. We didn't evolve from lower form organisms, but evolution still takes place, except for humans, who have de-evolved from being long live and highly intelligent beings. As for how did the animals get spread all over the planet from the time of the flood, the same can be said for the Bikini Atoll. We destroyed it with a Hydrogen Bomb test. They were off limit for years, yet when humans finally were allowed there, they found animals, thousands of miles from any continental mass.

Answer 5

Let me start by saying that if every story in the Bible is takin literally then there would be too much turmoil in our religious formation. The important thing of this story is not the arc size, Noah or the animals that made or not, the story rally is a sign of God's covenant with man, God made a new covenant with Moses, and this covenant is that He would never destroy mankind in that fashion again.
The story also relates God's mercy and love over our sinfulness, and how He selected one man and his family to start the world over again with, one man, Noah, and his family to breath a new life into the world He had created.
So don't be so analytical when reading scripture, read it and ask yourself where is God in this story, what does He want to achieve with this story and where is man in relation to God in this story, then you too will come up with great answers of your own to your questions.
Find salvation in the Bible, not literary and historical questions, it wasn't written for that purpose.
God bless always and keep asking these great questions to find the truth for yourself.

Answer 6

todays 30 million species make up only 1% of the species that the fossil record indicates, so noah must have left 99% of all animals off the ark. what does strike me as strange is that he prefered an unclean animal like the pig and weasle above the possibly clean animal like the brontosaurus.

Answer 7

the Ark was about the size of two football fields. Yes. If you look at the instructions given Noah they were very specific.. VERY specific. If God was going to give instructions to Noah to build the arc to such tight specifications, you'd think he had figured out how much space was needed, no? Besides, you might be assuming that he was taking in two of every single animal. Maybe he didn't take two black cats, two white ones for instance. As long as he got two per species he was more than likely fine.

Answer 8

The ark grew to become into extensive. It grew to become into touching directly to the dimensions of 569 present day railroad inventory autos. i think of I heard the animals did no longer even take in 0.5 the area (closer to a third of the area).

Answer 9

The story of Noah is a fairy tale, meant to explain rainbows. That's all.

Answer 10

He didn't
Do you see any Unicorns? they were all playing hide and seek and missed the last call for the boat