How do you explain all of the different animals on different continents? explain the great flood for me?

Question

How do you explain all of the different animals on different continents? I thought all of the animals were on Noah's ark!!
can we believe in god with discounting all of the ideas behind evolution- i think we can.

dont beat on the questioner. i am just hoping that god and evolution can coexist... didnt say that i personally believe in Noah's ark. i believe that the Ark is the hardest thing to explain if you are a true believer. I do believe that it is a story with little basis and there was never a worldwide flood. I like the comment of at least acknowledging a flood of the Euphrates. I ask not in ignorance but for hope of sharing understanding.

Answer 1

Certain animals are suitable for different regions, natural selection. The continents are moving all the time, through various temperate areas. Other micro and macro cosmic factors beyond calculation over extended periods of time, not least the many translations and interpretations of the Bible.
No matter what science discovers, it will never disprove or prove God's existence. Cause who's to say he didn't start the
Big Bang and create evolution, two seemingly contradictory concepts can often be interrelated.

Answer 2

How can anyone reasonably believe Noah could possibly gather two of each specie to put on the ark?!? Think of the time that would be required to walk the entire earth and to sail the mighty oceans to gather two of each specie. Moreover, he would then need to get them to follow him. He would have to feed them. Many of the species would die before they ever reach the ark. The planet is not a very hospitable place to many species once they are removed from their natural habitat.

According to the UN Biodiversity programme†: "To date, around 1.7 million species have been discovered and described. This roster of known species is certain to be only a fraction of the total number. ... In fact, there are probably 15 to 20 unnamed tropical species for every named one." Thus, even if we accept the lower limit of known species, Noah would have had to gather all of them. It is not something one can easily do in a life time, much less 100 lifetimes. Ah, perhaps he had Santa Claus-like powers and was able to suspend time.

As for the super-continent argument, Pangaea‡ (name of the super-continent) existed 250 million years ago, not fewer than 6000 years ago. So much for the argument that Noah could have walked all of the earth to gather the species. Noah would have somehow have had to reach Australia, New Zealand, Galapagos, among a myriad of other islands to gather those species, too. (Does that mean Noah was the first to circumnavigate the globe?!?) How exactly does one explain this?

I agree with the questioner, that you can believe in the Christian God (which I do not) while still accepting the ideas behind evolution. The two need not be incompatible.

Answer 3

This is a little known fact, Noah was able to shrink all the animals to 1/400th scale. This is how he managed to fit dinosaurs, elephants, Homo erectus, and all the extinct, present day, and now extinct species of animals. They were much more manageable that way too. Then when the dove came back with the leaf, although all trees would have been killed in the flood, ah detail, he reversed the shrinking ray and used the rebigulator and poof, they were full sized again. Much easier to feed when they were smaill though. I hope you learned something today young man. It all makes sense when you think about it.

true earth once had a supercontinent, Pangea, but that was 200 million years ago. The continents took that long to get in their present positions and are still moving. Pacific Ring of Fire, etc The geologic and fossil record support this but it was a very slow process. Caused major changes in global climate since waters and currants in the antarctic were blocked by land

Answer 4

I'm amazed at some of the answers to this...
"the earth was all one continent" -- yes, but not for at least 800 million years. If that's your explanation, then the Noah's ark story is absolutely false, since it's claimed to have happened about 5,000 years ago.

"land bridges" -- sorry, again no. Same timeframe problem.

Evidence of a global flood at *any* time since modern humans evolved? There is none.

The only explanation that fits the evidence (and fits it extremely well, with no contradictions) is evolution by natural selection. The Noah story is a slight re-writing of an earlier myth common in the Tigris-Euphrates valley area. It never happened.

Peace.

Answer 5

No the Torah is a bunch of rubbish their is no historical evidence for any of it. Sure you can believe in god while still believing in evolution. But I don't see how knowing the earth was created through natural processes and that the universe is self maintained leaves any room for god. If you're going to believe in a god at least make it the deist one. You can not disprove the god theory but you definitely can disprove the Judea-Christian god. I like to think about the whole religion thing like this. A puddle wakes up one morning and looks at the world around. He goes''wow this hole I'm sitting in is so perfect almost as if it was especially made for me'' But in all reality the puddle was just an product of the hole that was non preplanned but just happen through the natural process of things.

Answer 6

Young Earth types actually do believe in "micro-evolution" which is small changes or mutations in DNA which spawn different breeds within a catagory of animals. However, they do not put a limit on how far this mutation can go, they have created a something where they can disregard major changes as series of small ones that which they say do not fit into standard evolution. As far as the flood goes there is absolutely no evidence of this, so it is a matter of there faith.

Answer 7

When God took the animals off the ark, he just picked up the ark and shook it over all the continents and the animals fell where they would, kinda like pick up sticks. Not all continents got the same combination of animals.

Answer 8

Are you as desperate to learn as you are to believe ? If you knew a little of Earth`s history, a little Geography, and a little Ecology, you would have no need to post absurd questions. Noah`s Ark is fiction; a little understanding of the planet you live on is all you need.

Answer 9

Back then The Earth was one continent...over the years it seperated...different regions support different animals...the places the animals went to is where they needed to be reguardless of where "NOAH" dropped them:)

Answer 10

all the animals were in noahs ark, however you forget about the many land bridges out there in existance.