How did Noah get 2 MILLION SPECIES of Animals in his ark in ONE DAY?

Question

And don't forget, he needed a pair of opposite genders for each species of animals. So that's 4 million animals stuffed in a boat in a "selfsame" day.

Can someone explain to me how the leeches survived (if they don't suck enough blood they die out pretty fast) and how the dinosaurs stayed put throughout the ride?

Answer 1

He didn't. It's called cherry-picking the Bible. Believe the stuff you want. Throw out the stuff you don't want. All Christians do it. And with all the inconsistencies in the Bible, who can blame them.

Answer 2

Marysia: What?!?!? Back then there were not two million species? That was only 6,000 years ago. And to get to 2 million species that is not that difficult, as you have to take every species of bird, spider, snake, squirrel, bear, etc. That even includes those ones that humans have made extinct on our own.

Can you imagine how much food would have had to be on the ark? Those animals were on the ark for 375 days. And to those people who have not read the story of Noah and the ark, it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, but Noah and the animals were on the ark for 375 days. The amount of food alone makes the story a joke, let alone getting all the animals to the ark, then on board (without eating each other or getting hurt). Anyone who has dealt with large animals realizes what that would have been like. And if God could miracle the animals to go to Noah, then why could he not miracle the ark? Why make the poor guy spend 50 years making the stupid thing? God can make the heavens and earth, but an ark is too much for him.

Answer 3

Uh, well sweetheart, he had to take more than just the 4 million because he would also need feeder animals. Or plants, I don't know about you, but if the entire world was flooded, all the plants would die. All the fish would die when the salt and fresh water mixed. How did he clean up that much **** for 40 days. But you know what, the story has a moral at the end. The moral of the story is that humans will always sin. Even the best of em. That'st the point that needs to be taken away. The rest is just crap. It's obviously not a real story. Who cares if it's real or not, is there a message we can get from this story.

Answer 4

Actually, you've misread the story. Some of the animals were brought on the ark in groups of 7 pairs (clean vs. unclean animals).

But, the reality is that the Noah story is not a literal account of actual events.

For those of you who said that no sea or water animals had to be on the boat, that is absolutely false. If it actually happened, then the entire world was covered in rainwater. That would have reduced the salt content of the oceans by a huge margin. All sea life as we know it would die if that much fresh water was added to the oceans. Similarly, all the salt water and fresh water would mix, making all the fresh water fish exposed to salt water, killing all the fresh water life.

Further, plants would have to be brought on board, since they would not have survived the the deluge and would not have been able to grow in the salty ground after the water dried up and left a lot of salt in the ground.

There is nothing wrong with viewing the story of Noah as an allegory. Being a christian does not require one to believe that all the animals lived on the ark for 40 days and 40 nights and then all got offf and went their merry way on Mt. Ararat, repopulating the earth.

Answer 5

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. They eat about 300 kg a day so you would need over 600,000 kg just to feed them for over 300 days. The largest wooden ships built only displaced (fully loaded weight of etire ship) about 500 tons. You need more than 600 tons of food just for the elephants, and that doesn't count the weight of the elephants or ship.

Now throw in the three living species of Rhinos and you need six of them too, 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 too. They start with a lion and tiger and go down And you need two of each. 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 6

I want to know which member of the family had gonorrhoea. It is an entirely human disease so someone must have had it unless there was a later special creation - or perhaps it evolved from another disease. After a year on the Ark they would all have harboured lice, fleas and tapeworms as well as assorted other worms and fungal diseases. If I were Noah, I would have called the godly Occupational Health and Safety squad in.

Answer 7

TOOHE' MY friend, i dont care if thats how you spell it, but any way. lets get down to business.

Noah's Ark was taller than a 3-story building!
The deck area the size of 36 lawn tennis courts. Its length was 300 cubits, or 450 feet.
Its width was 50 cubits, 75 feet.
It had three stories and its height was 30 cubits 45 feet.

so lets multiply the dimensions:

450x75=33,750sq. ft.

since there was 3 levels plus the deck makes it 4 stories so lets multiply 33,750x4=135000

So the ark had 135,000 sq.ft. of space, you make a little organizations and a floating ware house will fit alot.

most dinos were pretty small, and the big ones would have been tied down on the deck. so pretty cramped but you do what god tells you to.

God Bless You!!

Answer 8

All humanity as we know it came from 2 people - with the potential for ALL races, and colors, then it's easy to know that God also made all creatures from a small amount of created kinds with the potential to make a large amount of species within their created kinds.

Answer 9

I know. What if the ark was so big that it covered almost all of the earth until there was just a 6 foot circle of water in the middle. I think that would do it.

Answer 10

Only needed 2 dogs. 1 male and 1 female.
Only needed 1 bull and 1 cow
Where do you get 2 million species? We didn't start with that many. Dinosaurs could have been young. Same with the elephant. God may have told them not to be aggressive.

Answer 11

certainly we have to question that it was 2000000 species if your counting ever species on the planet you need to subtract fish and animals that live in the water. then subtract water fowls.
Second it says now where that it took one day to get the animals. as i have read it i don't see any clear time line to follow on how long it took to build the ark or how long it took to gather the animals but lets not discount that god is all power full. Lets stop tiring to figure god out and just love him.