Didn't all kill each other the second they were set free? I mean think about it, every time a predator ate, it would kill a species, and if that were the case...there would be no animals left with a very short space of time...
2007-03-19 20:59:16 · 16 answers · asked by Ashton 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Since the majority of Christians dont like to take the bible literally, maybe I shoulda said that this question was just for Creationists...
2007-03-19 21:02:50 · update #1
Why do you assume that no stalls were built in the ark..there would certainly have been ample structural materials to attach seperations, kind of like office cubicles. The farm I grew up on had them in our barn..it just takes a simple gate.
But, then again...why didn't the Lions eat Daniel....because God prevented it from happening.
EDIT: There were rooms in the ark...
Gen 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Also had multiple stories or decks..
Gen 6:16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
2007-03-19 21:05:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
What makes you think the reason we don't have dinosaures today is that only infants where taken ( for space issues) and they were devoured by the carnivores as soon as they disembarked. Likewise, griffins, chimerea, unicorns ( oh, nevermind homer killed them) catawalagumpus, etc.
Maybe the ark was bigger than you think, the problems you mention did occure, and all we see are the survivors.
It is a good question and I don't believe my own response ( I'm a logic loving agnostic), but this is an issue to be adressed, not a refutation of the story.
2007-03-20 04:16:11 · answer #2 · answered by Zarathustra 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What if all the animals were babies or in eggs at the time? What if they were in a form of hibernation? Hibernation is an interesting thing, a cat was trapped in a shipping container for a period of weeks without food or water and survived, experts say, due to going into a hibernative state. (heck, when times are tough i feel like hibernating too!) Any way, maybe the animals were released over time as well.. I believe these two answers would account for food, space, and waste issues as well....
2007-03-20 04:12:04 · answer #3 · answered by paradigm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, if they all ate each other, there woudn't have been any point in bringing them!
maybe they just surivived on the oxygen in the air.....
or maybe they ate avocadoes!
u can eat avocadoes for a year and still live!
i'm sure that all the animals were locked up tight in boxes so they coudn'y rip each other to shreds. Noah seems pretty smart, he built the ark all by himsel so i guess that he would have thought of everything!
Also, it was God's plan remember, so He would have gotten it al worked out....somehow!
God bless
love the question!
2007-03-20 04:08:08 · answer #4 · answered by Robin 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At that time all animals ate green herbs (Gen 1:30). Man was given permission to eat meat by God in Gen 9:3. I have not found any verse in the Bible saying when animals began to eat meat. I suppose this happened (could be many years after the flood) when there were insufficient herbs to feed all the animals who have muliplied many times by then.
2007-03-20 04:20:42 · answer #5 · answered by seekfind 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a Creationist. I take the Bible literally. I also believe that thinking for yourself is part of interpreting the Bible. There were animals that came from the ark, but God would have propagated all species again Himself just as he must have propagated all races of humans. Not all Christians believe every animal and human came from one gene. That is like saying all of every species came from one creature, or it is like saying one creature laid eggs for every creature that exists. It is all foolishness to me. There is only one Being that is entirely of Himself, and that is God.
2007-03-20 04:34:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, they took a bunch more than just two of every animal on the ark, some animals they took many more of. Personally I would have just fed them before they got off. Besides, I'm sure there were still plenty of fish around for a lot of those predators. Besides, even carnivores are able to sustain themselves on vegetables. They just don't like to.
Interesting question though.
EDIT - Strange Suzy, do you even know what a fundie is? I gotta use the Princess Bride quote on you. "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
2007-03-20 04:07:40 · answer #7 · answered by Tyler K 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well lets see... animals are not as stupid as you think...
I notice how you have answered your own question...
ask this... do animals have a natural instinct for survival?
I just wish you all could bring this question home and live it!
2007-03-20 05:47:23 · answer #8 · answered by James 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Damn ! You've used simple common sense to show just how illogical the story really is. Be careful though, the dumb fundies will just come up with some stupid excuse about it all being gods plan or something like that.
Atheism. You know it makes sense.
2007-03-20 04:04:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
maby ye are a few short
2007-03-20 04:02:03 · answer #10 · answered by TEBOE7 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋