Can anyone explain how Noah got all that food onto the Ark for all the animals?

Question

Since they were on the ark for 375 days (as stated in the Bible), do you know how much food it would be for let us say 2 million animals on that ark? And since the ark was really only the size of two 747 jumbo jets, how did Noah do it?

Obviously since it is a fable, then how is the whole Bible not a fable? Christians are always quoting the Bible to support their discrimination (for example their thinking of homosexuality as an abomination against God), but there are other parts which are fables. So who gets to decide which parts to use and which to state are fables. Or is it just the case of taking the parts that support your statement and ignoring the rest?

If God provided, then why did God make Noah build the ark? If God has that much power why would he not just miracle an ark together with the food, animals, and Noah? Oh, maybe because he did not do anything and the story is BS.

Gmomma: Read the Bible, yes it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, but they were on the ark for 375 days.
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], the first [day] of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
Hence (not sure if Christians can actually do any math) Noah went in on the 17th day of the second month of his 600th birthday and left the ark on the 27th day of the second month of his 601st birthday. 365 days in one year, plus ten days makes 375. Please read Bible once in a while.

To all the people who state that Noah only had to take only two of each animal: What do you think Lions, tiger, bears, wolves, etc eat? They eat other animals, hence you have to take more than just two of them. In addition, if you think of how many people and animals died in the many ocean crossings, you have to allow for a certain amount of loss of animal life due to disease, etc. Obviously you have had nothing ever to do with animals, let alone large animals.

Midge: And honestly why do the other animals not hibernate today? Come on, could you honestly believe that? That is like the lovely part of the childish part of this story that the rainbow was God's way of saying he will never do it again, or it actually can be explained by light refraction.

Barjesse37: From your answer you have never been around animals much in your life. Do you know how much an elephan would need to eat over 375 days? Let alone 4 of them (African and Asian). What about horses? You need to take every species of bear, and bird, and snake, etc. 2 million would be a good number to actually estimate, considering he took "everything that crawleth on the earth". Lots and lots of species.

Answer 1

Condensed unicorn meat. Made by Campbell, son of Noah.

Answer 2

2 million is very conservative.

There are three living species of elephants. There are six species identified. Just the 6 elephants to cover the living ones and enough food would be problematic. The eat about 300 kg a day so you would need over 500,000 kg just to feed them.

Now throw in the three living species of Rhinos and you need six of them, and the two Hippo species meaning you need four of them. Now just for fun lets throw in the cats. There are 39 living species and a bunch more that are recently (500 years) extinct. And that is giving the benefit of the doubt on subspecies but if you can't evolve you would have had to have them too. They start with a lion and tiger and go down. These not only need food, it has to be meat. Now without refrigeration that means bringing a lot of goats and such just to feed them.

It isn't workable in any real world. We couldn't build a ship that would do this with our modern technology. Let alone try to build it out of wood.

By the way there are 900,000 known insects. We find about 2,000 new ones every year so that isn't a full list. This alone would be problematic.

Answer 3

No, it's not a fable, and no, God did not just 'magic' food into the ark like Harry Potter...
You say 2 million? Noah didn't have to take two of every species of animal, God said just two of each KIND. Estimating 50,000 animals, with the average size being a sheep, this really isn't a problem.
According to Genesis 2, God made everything vegetarian. You can see that even today, pandas have teeth that would make any paleobiologist classify them as meat-eaters, but all they eat is bamboo. So no, the lions, tigers and bears did not need zebras on the ark.

Answer 4

OK,let's try to explain this the best I can with what knowledge the Bible offers about the account and knowing what other Scriptures say as well. First, the ark was about equal in volume as the Titanic. Noah did not have two of every creature on the earth but two of each kind, that means two dogs, one male and one female, not two Collies and two Labs and two Spaniels, just two dogs, one male and one female, this goes for all creatures. Insects take up little space and can hide on any beam or rafter as well as birds and bats,etc. Now concerning the food and water, both Jesus and Moses were up in the mountains by themselves and without food for forty days as God sustained them, there are a few accounts in the Bible where either God or his Son, Jesus increased the amount of food that was already on hand, the loaves and fishes with Jesus, and oil and flour God kept increasing for the widow so that her jars did not run out. And there is nothing said, but it seems reasonable that God could have had a sleep like hibernation fall over many of the animals, if you remember, God had a deep sleep fall over Adam for the removal of one of his ribs which God used to create Eve. Since the Bible doesn't go into details on this and there is no one alive from that time, you just have to reason what might have happened but in the end, wait until God's new system is here and ask Noah yourself after he's resurrected, I am. For those of you who question the amount of time they spent in the ark, read Genesis 7:11 and Genesis 8:13-14, that's just over a year. Try reading Isaiah 65:25 When God has the animals at peace with each other, as they would have been on the ark, God says the lion would eat straw just like the bull, in the beginning of Genesis, animals were to eat vegatation just like man, not eat each other. Genesis 1:30 And to every wild beast of the earth and to every flying creature of the heavens and to everything moving upon the earth in which there is life as a soul. I have given all green vegatation for food. And it came to be so.

Answer 5

You are taking the story of Noah too literally. Neither is it a fable. It is a story that is told to show how much God loved and protected those who were faithful to Him. Here is what the Catholic Encyclopedia states:

"The opinion that these chapters are mere legendary tales, Eastern folklore, is held by some non-Catholic scholars; according to others, with whom several Catholics side, they preserve, under the embroidery of poetical parlance, the memory of a fact handed down by a very old tradition. This view, were it supported by good arguments, could be readily accepted by a Catholic; it has, over the age-long opinion that every detail of the narration should be literally interpreted and trusted in by the historian, the advantage of suppressing as meaningless some difficulties once deemed unanswerable."

Answer 6

God would fly over the Ark and parachute supplies to Noah, it was a complex and trying time for Noah, every time that God missed the designated drop zone Noah would have to consult with sea lions to find the supplies. Hours, sometimes days would pass with no food. Thankfully, eventually, the waters of the flood evaporated into the air, then through the power of God reached escape velocity and flew into the sun.

Answer 7

First of all, I don't know where the Bible said it was 375 days. I would like to see that if you can provide that. It would be interesting to see.

It would not be two million animals. Darwin's theory of evolution is wrong-to an extent. Micro-evolution is correct. So dogs might have come from wolves. So instead of bringing a hundred types of dogs, Noah might have brought two wolves. Working by that, they wouldn't need enough food for 2,000,000 animals for a year.

And Noah wouldn't have gotten full grown elephants and giraffes. Most likely only baby ones. They don't need as much food or space.

And Noah probably spent about 40 years working on the ark. In that time, he could've gathered enough food.

Answer 8

I heard a very interesting theory and that was that the animals hibernate and this is why today the Bears still hibernate to show us what happened during this time. I know the Lord could do all of this so it might have happened.


I read your comment but, ya know what you can't prove it didn't happen that way, and since Atheists are so big on proof you loose

Answer 9

Buddy, first, I think you need to reread. 40 DAYS. Just like 7 DAYS except 5 5/7 times longer on the time scale. Second, I don't know, maybe he just put it in the animals' cages? Or maybe God made them drag in random dead animals from sea. I mean, they were in an ocean, with dead animals. I personally wonder how the fish population was doing. Did God kill the fish? Were there fish on the boat? How was that workin for Noah? How would it feel to be one of those fishies? How did Noah tell the difference between the male and female? Okay that's enough questions for today.

Answer 10

Most of that information is on a need to know basis, and it seems God don't think you need to know all the tiny details. Yet I will tell you that Noah had faithfully followed the instructions God had given to him. The ark was finished exactly as God had directed. He had laid in store immense quantities of food for man and beast. And after this was accomplished, God commanded the faithful Noah, "Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before Me."

Answer 11

Hmm. Interesting (mostly random) answers you've been getting so far. Let's see what it actually says in the Biblical account:

Gen 6:11-22
11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
14 So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. 16 Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.
17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.
18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark — you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them."
22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.


Let's see, (to answer some of the others' objections,) it sounds like:

1) He didn't have to gather *any* of the animals -- They came to him! (God made them and He can make stuff like that happen. For that matter, He can make anything He wants happen.)

2) As someone else has noted, there weren't "let us say 2 million animals on that ark" (to quote yourself). This account doesn't just come from a long time ago; it comes from near the start of history. Even with thousands of different animals to house for several months, the boat known as the ark was three very large floors, each divided into rooms coated with pitch.

3) Finally, about food, God told Noah, "You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them."
And then we are told, "Noah did everything just as God commanded him." And he had plenty of time to take care of it, too. He was building the ark for five hundred years (as well as preaching to everyone around him to turn from sin (moral crime) and back to following God). It's often said Rome wasn't built in a day -- The ark wasn't built (or stocked) in a century!

Oh, yes. It was possible. Quite possible.

Barjesse37