And how did he get them from the south pole and back again ?
And how did he manage to get so many diffrent breads of dogs and cats ? And did he get every breed or are we now missing some ? And how bad did the Ark end up smelling with a couple of Skunks onboard ?
I need to know...I'll ask why later..
2007-03-19 21:58:51 · 31 answers · asked by clever investor 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
god magically led them from the pole all the way to the ark.
2007-03-19 22:09:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
As any religious person will tell you when there is clearly no logical reason ,that is the power of the Lord.
In other words, it is all a loads of rubbish, but makes a great story.
Noah, must have had the biggest forest in the world, to chop down enough trees to make a boat the size of super tanker, and a work force the size of china to make it for him.
EXTRA - to those who think they can explain diversity of species as being post arc, diversity takes 100,000 of years, if not longer, the ark was just a few 1000. It is all rubbish, wake up, there is much scientific evidence, treat the bible as others treat their stories of trolls and giants, a good read nothing more.
EXTRA - Genetic Richness, a rich smell of ???? Can you expand on what that is ? super DNA, a triple helix or something. There is a proven major flood of mediteranean when continents parted, it was not rapid though and villages would have been flooded, boats would have been made as word travelled of this massive lake growing metre by metre day by day. The is your flood.
How did they feed all of these types/kinds of animals? how did those animals which need to live in freshwater survive, what about those which need hot or cold climates live together. To many questions and no answers or proof. Sorry.
Only 1 land mass, it must have been well over 500 million years ago, way before our time as neandathols, apes or even rodents. 1 land mass is pre dinosaur !!!
EXTRA - Lived to 900! is that how the story got stretched to make it seem feasible, what if one of the animal died on the boat, no breeding pair? And as for not taken literally, how come the church expects all you church goers to now live literally by it.
What date exactly was the flood ? please?
2007-03-19 22:02:53 · answer #2 · answered by dsclimb1 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I see some posters have imagined that Noah only needed two of each "kind" of animal.
It makes me laugh that they believe all the different members of the cat family - from the massive lion to the tiny house cat - are the same "kind" and can evolve from each other in less than a couple of thousand years, yet humans are so different from chimps that we couldn't possibly have evolved from then.
I'd love to see an actual definition of "kind" - apart from "a type of animal that a two-year-old can distinguish". It seems creationists' understanding of biological diversity is about at that level.
And, of course, the answer to the original question is that it's an allegorical story, told by a bunch of bronze-age goatherders, based on earlier tales of a localised flood.
2007-03-19 22:25:43 · answer #3 · answered by Daniel R 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God did send the animals to the ark, and due to natural selection and special breeding, we have all the different types of Dogs and Cats today.
Most people do believe that the Creation story and the other stories in the Bible, because otherwise, if you dont believe it is possible to create a world in 6 days, or that God has control over the whole earth, then you dont believe there is a God. You cant pick and choose what you believe out of Christianity!
Some of the stories in the Bible are just stories, (like the one's Jesus told), others, in my opinion, your faith in God allows you to just know that they are true.
Gypsy Queen has it right! Y is everyone giving 'her' thumbs down?
2007-03-19 23:21:15 · answer #4 · answered by beckic12000 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
all breeds of dogs and cats are from the same 4 specials breeding with each other a lot over and over again
also natural selection animals change their physical characteristics over time, and the arc was looooong ago
so maybe the penguin started out as a large bird and after the ark, migrated to the polar areas, and then kept adapting to suit the environments until the penguin specials came through
you obviously didnt go through highschool science...
lols jk jk
2007-03-19 22:04:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The "Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation" (Vat. 11, Ch. 3.11) of the Catholic Church says that "all that the inspired, or sacred writers, affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, and without error, teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to be confided to the sacred Scriptures." This is the Church's teaching on the matter after twenty centuries of Christian discernment.
Biblical inerrancy, then, is the Bible's privilege of never teaching error. Does this mean that every statement in the Bible is divine teaching? Of course not. The Bible does not always teach. There are many statements in its various books that are there for historical, geographical, poetic or other reasons. However, whenever a biblical author intends to teach us something, then the Holy Spirit intends that too. Everything that the Bible teaches is without error, but everything in the Bible is not meant as teaching. Each author was left free by the Lord to express himself according to the ideas of his own day. It is the revelation contained in the Scriptures that is important.
There are many accounts in the Bible, which employ a literary device used by Jewish Old and New Testament writers called Midrash. Midrash is the substantive of the Hebrew word darash which means to search, to investigate, to study and, also, to expound on the fruits of the research. The aim of Midrash is to draw from Scripture a lesson for the present.
Midrash could also be defined as a "reflection on Scripture in the light of the actual situation of God's people and of the developments of God's action on its history." It proposes to explain the meaning of Scripture in the light of the later historical experience of God's people. This kind of interpretation often opened the door to embellishments of the sacred accounts, anachronisms, and a freedom in handling and maneuvering the data of tradition that were at times a little too candid and certainly very imaginative.
A good example is the Midrashic story of Noah and the flood. It is the divine message, which is important, (God saves his children from evil) not the literal account of the story.
Grace and peace!
2007-03-19 22:54:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
As polar bears and penguins spend inordinate amounts of time in the water, it was really no big deal for them to be without land to step on. Noah left them on their own.
Dog and cat breeding took place much later than Noah.
It said nothing of their ages. Younger, more immature skunks, can't use their scent glands.
2007-03-19 22:59:28 · answer #7 · answered by Robert G 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The story of Noah is not in question. He built a boat, there was a massive flood and he filled it with animals and family. to say he got 2 of everything in the world... well that is probably not a reality.. but the story was written about Noah's world and what was thought to be "the world".
b4 u accuse me as being a bible thumper, let me remind u that I am a gay male with my own battle against prejudice....
2007-03-20 10:01:26 · answer #8 · answered by front door 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why does everyone say pairs?
It was seven pairs of each of the clean animals and seven pairs of each of the birds, as well as a pair of everything else.
Ok, that would be a pain for the makers of toy arks, but that's what's actually there in Genesis 7.
2007-03-19 22:44:58 · answer #9 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about the penguins, but to capture the polar bears, Noah cut a hole in the ice and surrounded it with peas and when the polar bear came for a pea Noah kicked him in the ice hole.
2007-03-19 22:05:16 · answer #10 · answered by Shantelle G 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The quran describes the Noah and its people and it does no longer say that each one the animal of the is on the ark. Niether the international replaced into flooded. It replaced right into a community replaced into flooded the position Noah and his people lived. It doesnt say which united states or land. It replaced into in person-friendly words the animals that lived the position Noah lived and his people. no longer each of the animals of the international.
2016-11-27 00:15:24 · answer #11 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋