how did noah get all of the animals from north and south america? how did he get the animals from australia? and how did those animals get back across the oceans to get back to their native lands? did noah have a star trek style transporter or something?
2007-03-06 17:32:42 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How are the polar ice caps even possible?
Such a mass of water as the Flood would have provided sufficient buoyancy to float the polar caps off their beds and break them up. They wouldn't regrow quickly. In fact, the Greenland ice cap would not regrow under modern (last 10,000 years) climatic conditions.
How did animals get to their present ranges?
How did koalas get from Ararat to Australia, polar bears to the Arctic, etc., when the kinds of environment they require to live doesn't exist between the two points. How did so many unique species get to remote islands?
How were ecological interdependencies preserved as animals migrated from Ararat?
Did the yucca an the yucca moth migrate together across the Atlantic? Were there, a few thousand years ago, unbroken giant sequoia forests between Ararat and California to allow indigenous bark and cone beetles to migrate?
Why are so many animals found only in limited ranges?
Why are so many marsupials limited to Australia; why are there no wallabies in western Indonesia? Why are lemurs limited to Madagascar? The same argument applies to any number of groups of plants and animals.
2007-03-06 17:43:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Very good! Your question seems to have some reason behind it!
Please read this, Genesis 7:19-20 . . .And the waters overwhelmed the earth so greatly that all the tall mountains that were under the whole heavens came to be covered. 20 Up to fifteen cubits the waters overwhelmed them and the mountains became covered.
Since a calculation has proved that if the earth was without valleys, mountains, in other words totally smoothly round, waters would only cover the surface up to 2400 meters.
How could the flood then cover the many much taller mountains that exist today! It simply couldn't!
What does that tell us about the pre-flood world? Think about it!
The pre-flood world obviously was very different from today. The tall mountains didn't exist - obviously! (Bible says it never rained then, that a different mechanism was at work)
What else was radically different? Were you there? Do you know?
How can you then claim that the animals your question concerns didn't live in Noah's neighborhood. Or, that if God told Noah to do something, wouldn't God assure that compliance was possible!
In the box below it shows that America, Australia suffered (11,000 years~) extensive extinctions. Africa suffered less. Why? Because its animal stock perhaps was destroyed too, but was replenished with the animals from the Ark more readily than remote areas! From our viewpoint the answers are staring you in your face despite scientists saying 'don't know why'?
What about yourself? How do you explain that science with all its advanced technology cannot duplicate what unintelligent nature has made?
No scientist can make a cell from scratch and assemble DNA to his liking to make a new and strange living being in any shape and form that the scientist can imagine, why? In fact the exact programming language of the DNA is still not known. Scientist still use trial and error to test their research. It's not, 'here this strand of DNA means this so let's do that."
If UNINTELLIGENT NATURE by random change and convergence, put these super intelligent designs together that biomimetic scientists study so as to learn how something is done, perhaps the intelligence wasn't so random after all. How about God designing these?
Then when you hear evolutionist say, the organism now needed to see, so it evolved eyes! All of a sudden UNINTELLIGENT NATURE HAS INTELLIGENCE and EXTENDED SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE to know what is needed and how to do it!
Utter nonsense!
2007-03-07 03:18:03 · answer #2 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God who made the world, also made the star trek style transporter that sent us new animals from other planets. (Example: Elephants) The old animals died because they were spreading diseases and eating part of Noah's boat.
But if God wanted to, because he is all powerful, he could send the holy spirit to send the animals a migratory message to head toward Noah.
2007-03-07 01:55:03 · answer #3 · answered by Peggy Pirate 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, he was TOTALLY able tofit some 60 million animals on a wooden boat and keep the lions from eating other animals. And where would he have kept the woodpeckers? There was no global flood, just global flooding as the ice age ended. There was still plenty of dry land. I think the story of Noah grew from the stories of wise men living near coasts that encouraged their people to build boats to survive the rainy seasons. It isn't hard to see where God gave him inspiration to think of boats" can get to "God told him to build a boat and put enough food on it to last a month or so" to "God commanded Noah to build a great ark..."
2007-03-07 01:42:28 · answer #4 · answered by Huggles-the-wise 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is for all those who believe that Genesis is literal. Religious scholars & theologians believe that the story of Noah & the Ark is an allegory - a figurative story - the point of the story is God's msg to us. To make the msg intelligible to the Israelite's who would be preserving them, they needed to be expressed thru elements prevailing among the people at that time. So what do you think the point of the Noah's ark story is?
I think it's that good people will be blessed & evil people will be destroyed....not necessarily on earth but in heaven & hell.
2007-03-07 02:41:55 · answer #5 · answered by Judith 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, you see, you are using the wrong side of your brain.
In order to make sense of the flood and the ark and all, you have to use the side of your brain where unicorns prance about in leafy glades.
If you insist on using the scientific part of your brain, then you will have to ask a question that relates to science, not a fairy tale.
Which is why the only answer the poor literal-minded xtians can come up with is, 'God is magic.' When faced with the logistics of the challenge, there is no way they can respond. So for them, God just zips animals all around in order to get them on this massive ark (have we come up with just how massive it would be in order to fit two of EVERY kind of animal? Surely it would need to be bigger than Rhode Island) and then God zaps them back after the flood is over. See? Simple!
2007-03-07 01:53:55 · answer #6 · answered by pasdeberet 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's convenient that all of the marsupials (excluding the opossum) made it back to Australia.
You forgot to question how all of the 200+ million forms of flaura also survived.
How about fresh water fish, amphibians, and crustaceans? Did Noah also create an aquarium and desalinization unit?
2007-03-07 02:07:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably the flood was just a localized event. It would have been the whole world as far as the people living there were concerned since they most likely lived concentrated in an area (ie: wouldn't have been nessecary to flood Australia, etc).
But then again I have always been of the opinion that the Bible is absolutely true, if not always absolutely literal . . . . so I gues I'm not your target audience
2007-03-07 01:39:20 · answer #8 · answered by LX V 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
North an South America, Australia do not exist. They are not mentioned in the Bible.
2007-03-07 03:54:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe in the Bible. I also believe in plate techtonics. What if (and come with me on this wild journey...) the whole Noah's flood thing happened BEFORE the plates started to separate...yeah, yeah, yeah...it happened sixteen bazillion years ago...so what was the exact date of the Noah story? Sixteen plus one!
If you have decided that there is no God and that the Bible is fiction, are you finding much success in proselyting on R&S? Or is it just to piss off the Christians?
2007-03-07 02:10:05 · answer #10 · answered by Fotomama 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋