How did Noah fit 2 of every animal on the arch?

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Also, what did he do with the food? And how did he get all the food for every animal....

Also, did he bring 2 of every single plant life?

How can this be so?

Did he travel the entire earth for these creatures? What about the insects and the birds?

How did one man and his family build such a capable craft?

How did he haul all the wood?

Tomoyo, I like your answer, but... you just described to me a very vague kind of micro-evolution. With the earth being only 10,000 years old max as per many bible scholars... how the heck did we evolve so many different varieties of species within that small timeframe?

Answer 1

The bible is a story book, not a historical account.

Answer 2

The creation record found in the first chapter of Genesis reveals that God created earth’s living things “according to their kinds.” (Ge 1:11) The Biblical “kinds” seem to constitute divisions of life-forms where each division allows for cross-fertility within its limits. From the earliest human record until now, the evidence is that dogs are still dogs, cats continue to be cats, and elephants have been and will always be elephants. Specific created “kinds” may number only in the hundreds, there are many more varieties of animals and plants on the earth. Modern research has indicated that hundreds of thousands of different plants are members of the same family. So it becomes apparent that Noah could get all the necessary animals into the ark for preservation through the Flood. The Bible does not say that he had to preserve alive every variety of the animals. It states: “Of the flying creatures according to their kinds and of the domestic animals according to their kinds, of all moving animals of the ground according to their kinds, two of each will go in there to you to preserve them alive.” (Ge 6:20; 7:14, 15)

Answer 3

have not have been given any clue how he greater healthful them into an arch. however the boat he construct called an ark, in accordance to the Bible, replaced into 3 hundred cubits by ability of 50 cubits extensive by ability of 30 cubits extreme. As a cubit is extremely smaller than a backyard, the boat replaced into approximately 900 ft long (compares the the Queen Mary II - the main important ocean liner at present - at one million,one hundred ft). The width replaced into one hundred fifty ft, and the top ninety ft. it incredibly is over 12 million cubic ft of area. you will get incredibly some animals in that.

Answer 4

God gave Noah the plans for the ark which was 300 cubics long, 50 cubics wide, 30 cubics high. The ark was 450 ft. long, 75 ft wide, and 45 ft. high. It had the capacity of more than 500 freight cars. It was 3 stories high and divided throughout into rooms and dens.

Noah took supplies to last a year and 10 days for his family and all the animals (as well as enough to last the first harvest).

He had every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort (male/female), birds, animals, every creeping thing..

Noah had faith in God that cost him every material thing, but it also gave him and his family salvation by grace through faith. 600 years. Now that is faith!!!

Answer 5

Good questions!!! You can bring babys of the animals. Also, the living environment was much better than it is today, despite the pollution. The atmosphere had much more nutrients than we have today, providing much less consumption of products. There was another layer of water around the world, providing much less sundamage, and probably much more pure oxygen than we have today. Scientists analized an air bubble in a tree sap fossil, dated at about 4,000 years ago, the air concentration was about 60-70% more Oxygen than we have today. Have you ever needed to find 2 of a plant to make one? no you grow plants with the seeds soil and nutrients. Ever heard of hydroponics?? Hope this helps!!

Answer 6

God and Noah are the only ones who know. Have you really considered all that he had to haul on the Ark. Their food plus the animals food to last 40 days and nights.WOW! They were busy day and night, feeding and shoveling.(ha,ha)
I've wondered about the SMELL myself !!!!!!! OK so I grew up on a farm and I can relate to Noah when it comes to shoveling poop! And by the way it must of had to bag it according to verse 3.
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Genesis 7:2-3
2)Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by seven, the male and his female: and of the beast that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3)Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
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Answer 7

Well, if you really get down to it, he didn't put any animals on the arch. Not even a single one. Check the bible.

Answer 8

It cannot possibly be a true story. it's just allegory.

There is no possible way, given the current laws of physics and biology for the Noah story to be even close to being true.

There are 300,000 species of non-swimming beetles. How would you keep the 30,000 species of birds from eating them? (heck, how would you catch the birds)

Answer 9

*** it-1 pp. 164-165 Ark ***

Capacity. The passenger list of the ark was quite impressive. Besides Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives, living creatures “of every sort of flesh, two of each,” were to be taken aboard. “Male and female they will be. Of the flying creatures according to their kinds and of the domestic animals according to their kinds, of all moving animals of the ground according to their kinds, two of each will go in there to you to preserve them alive.” Of the clean beasts and fowls, seven of each kind were to be taken. A great quantity and variety of food for all these creatures, to last for more than a year, also had to be stowed away.—Ge 6:18-21; 7:2, 3.

The “kinds” of animals selected had reference to the clear-cut and unalterable boundaries or limits set by the Creator, within which boundaries creatures are capable of breeding “according to their kinds.” It has been estimated by some that the hundreds of thousands of species of animals today could be reduced to a comparatively few family “kinds”—the horse kind and the cow kind, to mention but two. The breeding boundaries according to “kind” established by Jehovah were not and could not be crossed. With this in mind some investigators have said that, had there been as few as 43 “kinds” of mammals, 74 “kinds” of birds, and 10 “kinds” of reptiles in the ark, they could have produced the variety of species known today. Others have been more liberal in estimating that 72 “kinds” of quadrupeds and less than 200 bird “kinds” were all that were required. That the great variety of animal life known today could have come from inbreeding within so few “kinds” following the Flood is proved by the endless variety of humankind—short, tall, fat, thin, with countless variations in the color of hair, eyes, and skin—all of whom sprang from the one family of Noah.

These estimates may seem too restrictive to some, especially since such sources as The Encyclopedia Americana indicate that there are upwards of 1,300,000 species of animals. (1977, Vol. 1, pp. 859-873) However, over 60 percent of these are insects. Breaking these figures down further, of the 24,000 amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, 10,000 are birds, 9,000 are reptiles and amphibians, many of which could have survived outside the ark, and only 5,000 are mammals, including whales and porpoises, which would have also remained outside the ark. Other researchers estimate that there are only about 290 species of land mammals larger than sheep and about 1,360 smaller than rats. (The Deluge Story in Stone, by B. C. Nelson, 1949, p. 156; The Flood in the Light of the Bible, Geology, and Archaeology, by A. M. Rehwinkel, 1957, p. 69) So, even if estimates are based on these expanded figures, the ark could easily have accommodated a pair of all these animals.

Five months after the Deluge began, “the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat,” not likely, however, atop the uppermost peak (nearly 5,165 m; 16,950 ft), but on suitable terrain where everyone aboard lived comfortably for some months more. Finally, after a year and ten days from the time the Deluge began, the door again was opened and all aboard disembarked.—Ge 7:11; 8:4, 14.

Answer 10

The bible says that Noah went into the ark and then the animals went into the ark. That means that the animals went there, Noah didn't have to go after them. "There went in two and two unto Noah" (Genesis 7)

animals are incredible creatures, how the salmon return to where he was born, how the tern hatches and knows to fly to Hawaii to meet their parents. I believe the animals went to the ark because they knew what would happen.

You'd think that the animals would have fought and killed eachother. you have to believe in miracles. God's spirit was there and his peace.