Why weren't there any other boats that survived the flood?

Question

This notion that no boats other than the ark survived the flood is a bit sily, don't you think?

Answer 1

It is a mistake to assume that the partial record is silly or mistake. I do not have any idea what happened to other boats..if there even were other boats. Noah was living in the desert. He must have looked really silly for building that big ark. It took him around 125 years to build it if I remember right. I imagine the ridicule he received.

Answer 2

Because there were not any other boats strong enough or big enough to survive the flood. Also, this was such a different kind of storm/catastrophe/event that no boat was made to withstand this water-from-all-directions kind of storm/flood. They would have needed prior warning and time to build or at least modify a boat for this. Only Noah got that. And, it took him about 100 years to build this thing!! Yeah, much of it was done by himself, but not all of it and anyway, 100 years is 36,500 days (not including the extra days from leap years). That is a lot of time even for a single man to build a boat. Also, the wood was super waterproofed with pitch from trees both on the inside and outside of the boat's outer shell!! Overkill unless you are expecting an act of God. Sorry, had to add a bit of humor. And remember, that God can destroy or save anything He wants. If God can build an entire Universe just by speaking it into existence, don't you think it is reasonable to assume, then, that He could make this flood and keep a Butterfly safe if He felt like it? If you can make a Universe and all the rules (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, etc) that go with a Universe, you are pretty much qualified to do just about anything.

Answer 3

The flood might have been local to Noah's world. Remember that the Bible is not a science book. It's a book about God. Waht does that story teach you about Him? Let's entertain your question for a minute though. You don't know that a flood is coming, but you happen to have a boat. Could you survive 40 days of intense rain, enough that would cover a mountain?

Answer 4

Bobby Jim had it right. It had never rained up to that point. The mist would come out of the ground in the evening, watering all about. I believe that there was an "aquasphere" layer in the upper atmosphere, like a bubble around the earth, creating the perfect greenhouse. Until the flood of 40 days/nights. The atmospheric pressure back then would have been higher, caused by gravity upon the aquasphere. This would have been just right for mankind at that time, living then up to 900 years in the relatively germ and bacteria free earth. The world had become overflowingly evil and when it got down to a single family that sought after goodness, God told him to build a boat. He was purposely cleansing the filth of the face of the earth. Noah and his family were spared because they were faithful and obedient to their Creator. How hard it must have been for them after they shut the doors, to hear the wailing people outside, drowning, screaming for help. Noah must have really needed therapy after that.......or maybe all the animal noises d"drowned" out the screams for help....?? wierd thought...

Answer 5

And yet you don't question the woman who turned to salt, the speaking burning bush, nor the pillar of fire which guided the jews out of the dessert?

Let's not even discuss the fact that two of every animal on Earth were collected, which means they had to have traveled to Australia to save the koalas and to the Galapagos Islands to save the komodo dragons, and then after the flood receded they were kind enough to return these animals to their respective continents and islands to develope in isolation once more.

And if they only collected two of each animal, what did the carnivores eat?

Edit: Oh, and as for Shphincter? Science has proven that an appropriate sound, at the right decibles, could tople a wall. Though the talking snake might still be silly... I'm waiting for the final call on that one.

Answer 6

Who said no boats other than the ark survived the flood? That isn't the part that is important... The important part is the fact that no one but Noah and His family knew that the flood was coming. Therefore none of them were prepared for it.

People didn't have time to hop in there boat.. Not to mention if they did, they wouldn't have had enough food, etc. to be able to live for 40 days and 40 nights.. There was no chance of survival for anyone but Noah and His family, just the way God said it would be.

Answer 7

I guess common sense didn't exist before the flood. Every culture has it's flood myth and if you do some research the flood in noah's ark was inspired by the epic of gilgamesh.

Answer 8

there are several flood myths, not just the Hebrew one, and none of them could possibly have been in collusion, for they were too far apart to have possibly haven known each other. Using this as a ruler to measure, some scholars have concluded that some watery event may occurred approximately 10,000 years ago after the Ice Age.

Answer 9

There are many things in the Bible that, if taken literally, and / or out of context seem very silly. Talking snakes, trumpets toppling the walls of a fortress, mana falling from the sky while everyone slept..........I may not fully understand, but I believe.

At the end of the day, we all will know the answer.

Answer 10

Well, if you believe in the Bible's record of the flood, why do you doubt the Bible's record that "it had not yet rained upon the earth.
The continents were all one land mass at the time (also the Biblical record) and the Middle East was land-locked.
No one else was told by God that they needed to built a boat.