Who was the one responsible for cleaning up all the Elephant and Giraffe and Lion and Tiger Faeces? They were there for forty days and nights (7 of each kind, not TWO of each kind, see Genesis 7:2). They would have been WADING in it after the first week or so. 7 Elephants eat a lot, not to mention all the other animals, so there must have been a huge food storage room on the Ark. AND, where did they dump all that stuff that they picked up? Overboard? Even the runny stuff? Were they environmentally conscious, or what?
2007-04-16 15:36:25 · 6 answers · asked by Spikey and Scruffy's Mummy 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What the Bible fails to mention is that in closed quarters, even if windows were open, the methane produced by so much feces would have killed every animal on board.
Unless Noah had advanced ventilation systems on board, which I severely doubt.
Someone will probably say God helped Noah out with that part, but if it's true, then why couldn't God have helped by making it rain for 1 day and 1 night, killing all life on earth while the Ark levitated safetly over the clouds. Seems like a better and easier plan.
2007-04-16 15:42:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The storm lasted 40 days and 40 nights. They were on the ark longer than that actually. 7 of every kind is only for the clean beasts and birds, 2 of every kind for every thing else. The clean ones are the ones you eats. I'm sure it was a full time job to feed and clean up after the critters. I have heard this and believe it that the animals God called to the ark were not full grown, but baby animals. They are smaller so they don't make as much waste or eat as much food. This is just a theory though. No one knows. Yes, I'm sure they dumped it overboard into the water.
2007-04-16 22:55:29 · answer #2 · answered by ijustwantmymail 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't you think maybe God thought about this ahead of time?? He can do anything, He's God, when He speaks, mountains are raised, Light is formed, He created the animals, I think He probably knew how to prevent this. The whole point of the story was to preserve them, all of them, because man created such destruction that God was sorry He created them. But because His mercy was so great, He spared them, so they wouldn't be destroyed with the flood, and man, along with the animals would be able to continue.
think about what their choices were: Have all of creation forever destroyed, or do whatever was necessary to continue. If God chose Noah, and gave him full instructions, and measurents, and how strong it needed to be to withstand it, and God knew to tell him in plenty time to build the Ark, since only God knew ahead, don't you think He considered everything?
Seriously, look deeper into the whole story, the full account, is that all you got out of it? God's ways are not man's ways, neither is the way God reasons the same as the way human being reason, or there would never have even been a flood in the first place, God's thoughts are higher than man's thoughts, God sees the Big picture, only a human being would miss the whole point, and come to such a conclusion as the one you list....................
2007-04-16 23:20:28 · answer #3 · answered by cas1025 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Please tell me that is not the only problem you have with the Flood story.
Getting rid of crap is the easy part. What I want to know is where did they put the food to support all those animals.
Not only during the flood but in the years after when plant life was growing back and the animal population had not replenished itself.
2007-04-16 22:41:27 · answer #4 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well perhapsGod performed anohter miracle and the animals were just able to live without food for that period, I mean after all this is God we are talking about, and I'm sure it would be within his realm of abilities!
2007-04-16 22:41:54 · answer #5 · answered by p_isfor_pecker 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't know I wasn't there...........
2007-04-16 22:47:19 · answer #6 · answered by Gifted 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋