Freshwater animals do not survive in salt water with the exception of a few species like salmon. So how did Noah build all those tanks needed to keep freshwater fish and other animals alive? How could his family take care of so many tanks? All the zoo keepers in the world could not take care of two of every land dwelling animal on earth including all the freshwater animals that do not survive in saltwater. Don't forget every land dwelling arthropod on earth including all insects. ship that large would equal the size of California more than half a mile high. It would probably be larger than that. Remember that Christians do not believe in evolution and they believe that all the animals that have ever lived were on the earth at the same time and most have gone extinct. They repeat this regularly on the evangelical station. That includes the dinosaurs and the animals from the Ice Age. Do you know how hard it would be to keep only two of every animal alive?
2007-04-15 11:56:41 · 16 answers · asked by Alan M 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
he didn't take any fish on board you dummy. didn't you know the sea was still going to be there not the land? 40 days and 40 nights of rain the fish could swim from England to China non-stop. he only took the best animals too left all the ugly ones behind and kept the cute ones you see in the zoo. beside evolution picked up where he left off and that is why we have so many different ones today.
2007-04-15 12:07:51 · answer #1 · answered by Harry Hood 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I foolishly never considered the freshwater animals, mostly because the other details of the story are so absurd. Here's what I figured out:
The bible gives specific dimensions for the ark; it is 151,140 sq ft split into three levels (Gen 6:14-15) (do the math and remember that a cubit is the length from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, defined today as 18-22". I used 22 just to be extra fair.) On the boat were 8 people(6:18), two of every animal (6:19) plus "seven pairs of all clean animals...and a pair of the animals that are not clean...and seven pairs of the birds of the air also" (7:2-3), and "every kind of food that is eaten" (6:21). On this ark they spent one year, one month and ten days (7:11/8:13-14). It took Noah less than one hundred years to build the massive ship (5:32/7:6), and he was 601 when they exited the ark (8:13). He died at the age of 950 (9:29), or 951 (8:13/9:28) if you ignore the shoddy math of 9:29.
But your question should be expanded: How could the eight of them build and maintain enough tanks for the saltwater animals too? Saltwater animals depend on precise salinity levels. If rainwater covered the whole earth, the oceans would be diluted and all see animals, fresh- and salt-water, would die.
Way to point out yet another logical fallacy in the bible! Star for you!
Notes based on other answers: Dinosaurs logically would not have to be on the ark, since there is no record of them existing after the flood, but that would imply that Noah failed to bring all the animals.
The flood, according to the Bible, did cover the entire world.
Even though rainwater is freshwater, enough of it supposedly fell to cover the whole earth. When this happened, the freshwater (from the rain and all the world's rivers and lakes) would mix with the salt water (from the sea) for form a water of medium salinity, inhospitable to both fresh- and salt-water animals.
2007-04-15 12:06:03 · answer #2 · answered by Dan X 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
According to the Creation Scientists, God made the freshwater fish after the flood. Baby dinosaurs were also let on the ark and the last dinosaur to die was a dragon back 300 years ago. The whole earth is only 6000 years old you know.
2007-04-15 12:04:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It was magic.
No, but seriously, I have pondered, if maybe, some hidden texts of the bible are speaking of extraterrestials as our ancestors. Maybe, Noah was an humanoid who had super intelligence, and maybe he and his family simply extracted the DNA of these animals and catalogued them for further use and duplication, and the 'ark' was a spaceship.
It seems to be the only plausible way so many species could fit on a single vessel.
2007-04-15 12:00:02 · answer #4 · answered by toedechameau 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are so many question's about Noah's Ark...and they all end with 'God did it'
:-) seriously, there's another stoey about a world-wide flood called 'Gilgamesh' that was written by a neighboring culture sometime before
Oh, yeah-I lkike the last part of Dan X's answer-about the fresh and saltwater intermixing
2007-04-16 09:30:51 · answer #5 · answered by strpenta 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do YOU know how hard it is to keep a tyrannosaur from eating everything on board a ship? There wouldn't have been anything left on board but a couple of t. rexes when the floodwater receded.
2007-04-15 12:03:52 · answer #6 · answered by gehme 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The ridiculousness of the Noah story is only exceeded in its absurdity by the number of otherwise reasonably intelligent people who believe in it.
2007-04-15 12:02:27 · answer #7 · answered by Morey000 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What makes you think that Noah took fish on the ark? Have you read the original text?
2007-04-15 12:08:13 · answer #8 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Try taking a look at http://www.answersingenesis.org as I am sure your questions, if you are legitimately seeking answers, can be found there. If not, I suspect you won't bother.
Tom
2007-04-15 12:03:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
why would he have to bring fish, whales, etc... on the Ark. The Ark was built so that humans and land animals wouldn't die in the flood.
2007-04-15 12:02:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋