what are the exact dimensions as stated in the bible. also how the hell did he fit all of them on there? elephants by twos, alligators, gorillas, not to mention diffrent species of elephants that existed before Noahs ark unless he took mammoths or something.
2007-05-02 22:54:42 · 5 answers · asked by Banana tree 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Genesis 6:15 in the Bible tells us the Ark's dimensions were at least 135 meters long (300 cubits), 22.5 meters wide (50 cubits), and 13.5 meters high (30 cubits). That's 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
2007-05-02 22:58:54 · answer #1 · answered by raven7night 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look at Genesis 6:13-22. Keep in mind that God brought the animals to Noah; it says they will “come to you”; he didn’t have to go out and catch them.
The response that often comes from the skeptic is: “Noah couldn’t have fit all those animals in the ark—especially the dinosaurs!” And you ask them, “How many animals had to go in the ark?” “I don’t know.” “Well, how big was the ark?” “I don’t know.” So, you don’t believe an unknown amount of animals could have fit in an unknown sized ark?
First of all, Genesis 6:20 states that representative kinds of birds and land animals boarded the Ark, not all the different species and subspecies. People say, “But there were over 600 names for dinosaurs.” Yes, and there are many names for the different types of dogs in the world, but all the dog “species” came from only one original dog kind—one Genesis kind. There were many different Ceratopsia dinosaurs that probably all came from one Genesis kind. Many creationists believe there were fewer than 50 distinct kinds of dinosaurs that had to be on the Ark.
Second, you also need to remember that the ark didn’t look like those cutesy Sunday School pictures. The ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet tall (and that’s using a small cubit measurement; it could have been quite a bit larger). The space in the ark would have held more than 520 modern railroad boxcars, and I’ve read that shippers allocate up to 250 sheep per boxcar when moving them by train.
Third, not all dinosaurs were huge, many were as small as chickens. Some scientists say the average size of the dinosaurs was about that of a sheep or a small pony. Very few of the dinosaurs grew to extremely large sizes.
And fourth, who says that he took full grown dinosaurs on board? It would be foolish to fill up space on the ark with the oldest, biggest adults. The largest fossil dinosaur eggs found are about the size of a football. Reptiles normally grow till the day they die so the enormous dinosaurs were probably just very old. Would God want to use senior citizens to populate the new world? Their main purpose was to reproduce after the flood. I don’t think there were old adults of any of the animals on the ark.
2007-05-05 12:38:02 · answer #2 · answered by Questioner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another poster correctly answered the dimensions question.
As far as how did he fit all those animals on the ark, it's simple. Baby elephants are much smaller than adult elephants. The actual cubic foot volume of the ark was quite large, if you do the math. More than enough to put a pair of every base species, plus feed.
2007-05-03 07:10:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And termites (what did they eat for 40 days?) not to mention all carnivores. And, of course, all dinosaurs. How much did the ark weight? What about heat / air?
But when you have a magical fairy that can make everything magically work, you don't need to worry - or think.
2007-05-03 06:06:02 · answer #4 · answered by eldad9 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ask indiana jones he will no he had it at one time
2007-05-03 05:59:20 · answer #5 · answered by andrew w 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋