Termites must live in colonies with a queen to survive so he must have had 10 000 termite colonies on board the Ark. How did he stop them from doing what Termites do and eating the Ark from under his feet?
2007-03-30 20:23:43 · 26 answers · asked by Judas. S. Burroughs. 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We are not sure of the type of wood used to buils the Ark. But it did take about 40 or more years to complete...On the dry hard ground.
I am sure that Jehovah God instructed Noah to use a type of wood that was white ant proof.
There is a type of tree in the southwest of Western Australia that is totally free of white ant attack. Local farmers use it for fence posts. Some in the area have been standing for nearly 100 years.
2007-03-30 20:58:35 · answer #1 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to first ask yourself wether or not termites existed yet. many say that plagues later on brought termites (among other insects) into existence.You also have to remember that noah didn't go around the world gathering animals. They came to him because God commanded them to. Do you think God would tell noah to save the human race and all the worlds species just to have it undermined by a few bugs?
@massacre:
You think that everest was standing back then? The whole world geography was totally different back then. The massive flood changed that. And yet again God is God. he can do anything he wants to.
2007-03-31 03:29:53 · answer #2 · answered by Warrior Poet 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
These termites were very special kinds. They were the only ones to obey Noah's commands! I mean, them termites didn't wanna drown now did they? So they had to survive without eating it for 40days and 40 nights! What a fast.
2007-03-31 03:28:43 · answer #3 · answered by -♦One-♦-Love♦- 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That never happened the bible claims the whole world was covered in water and happened around five thousand years ago. Which meens even mount Everest black out elevation (dying from lack of oxygen) is twenty thousand feet. So they all would of suffocated and drowned and how could you of possibly built a ship that big. Even with the technology we have today. We cant do it so there is no way they could of then, And dont give me the ,"the mountains were different five thousand years ago" B.S.. It took the rocky mountains in America one hundred twenty thousand years to grow five hundred fifty feet. Not logical
Oh also The lack of Fresh water and Food they would of died from that too.
2007-03-31 03:29:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.
Peace and every blessing!
2007-03-31 03:44:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why do you think they can't find it now. And why did god end the flood so soon? He ( god) new that much longer and those termintes would get the best of noah. He also knew that by destorying any remnenets of the arc he would provide christians of today with a test of faith.
Sure he miscalculated a bit and the unicorn and most of the dinosaurs were lost when noah failed to seal of a breach quick enough, but he was busy that day.
2007-03-31 03:32:27 · answer #6 · answered by Zarathustra 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What makes you think that the Sumerians domesticated termites? Or better yet, what makes anyone think that Noah brought undomesticated animals onto the ark?
2007-03-31 03:29:28 · answer #7 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A better question would be, how did he make room for all those dinosaurs? As for Arnon, termites do to eat wood.
2007-03-31 03:33:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ark was coated in pitch. Termites will not eat through pitch. ( Similar material is used to coat telephone poles nowadays, to prevent just that. )
2007-03-31 03:26:42 · answer #9 · answered by C J 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Technically, if they couldn't eat the wood of the ark, then they would have died as they do when the are exposed to air.
2007-03-31 03:30:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋