Why weren't dinosars on the Ark in Noah's day? Was the Ark not able to contain them with all the other animals?
2007-05-04 10:34:48 · 14 answers · asked by melischief16 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Look at Genesis 6:18-20 about Noah and the animals. It doesn’t say two of every kind except dinosaurs. Now, 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 05:42:22 · answer #1 · answered by Questioner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinosaurs became extinct 65 MILLION years ago, more or less. Humans and dinosaurs never existed at the same time. There was no Ark and no 2 by 2 nonsense. Think hard about the ridiculousness of believing that one pair of every single species of animal, millions of them, is going to somehow get to the Middle East and get on a boat. I realize Christians are not allowed to think for themselves, but really.
2007-05-04 17:47:39 · answer #2 · answered by Nightlight 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With your train of thought you are assume that God would naturally step in at every point in history when something imperfect happened. Clearly that's not the way He works. The universe was created as the habitation of mankind. When the first man and woman disobeyed God, they introduced a sin curse into the world. Perfection ended and sin eventually begat imperfection of all kinds. God does step in at various points in history, but it is for His purpose and in His timing...not ours.
2007-05-04 17:57:32 · answer #3 · answered by dex_md 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you take the story literally, there's only one explanation.
God made the Dinosaurs evolve into birds, so they'd fit in the Ark...nice save, don't you think?
2007-05-04 18:26:53 · answer #4 · answered by dutchday 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noah's ark is from the Black Sea deluge, no dinosaurs at that time.
2007-05-04 17:38:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
what makes you think that he didn't save some just like the ones that went to Noah. there is enough Prof that man and dinosaurs coexisted together at one time . type dinosaurs bible man and learn more about it
2007-05-04 18:03:31 · answer #6 · answered by scott 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll never understand that, amongst other things.
If God created everything and he saw everything as good, then why destroy it?
2007-05-04 17:44:42 · answer #7 · answered by Joa5 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
... if John mowed the lawn in 3 hours
... and Jim mowed the same lawn in 1 hour
what the hell was wrong with John?
2007-05-04 17:40:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
becase he couldent show his body to the dinosors
2007-05-04 17:49:31 · answer #9 · answered by dave_adekoya 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they were already history
2007-05-04 17:40:34 · answer #10 · answered by ♥♥The Queen Has Spoken♥♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋