Does anyone actually believe in the myth about Noah's Ark?

Question

I'm curious if anyone out there actually believes in the whole myth about Noah's Ark and if so, how do deal with the fact that an entire species cannot come from just a single male and female? Do you just ignore that fact so you don't have to admit there might be some b.s. in the bible?

Answer 1

Everytime I hear the words "Noahs Ark"....I expect to hear a rimshot.

Answer 2

The Bible is not a myth. It is facts about the God of life and destiny of man. If you had a wife and you had a child and that child had and that child had more and more soon you would be a large community,generations down the line. That is easy to think ya! God is a person that does things the way he wants to do it,his mind is greater than we could imagine yet we question him and his word. That is way we are simple compared to the things of God. Without him we can do nothing,he made the earth and everything in it. The creation looks up and says way did you make me so? We are and entire species,but we continually look at the outside of each other instead of the inside,so what difference does it make to any, if we are few of us or many. It is you that need to be ignored. This is the very thing that made God angry and caused the flood.But he saved a remnant that did worship him. So easily we forget.

Answer 3

I believe in it, but a myth is only a literary device to explain a spiritual truth. A myth can be totally fiction, or it could be totally non-fiction. I don't believe it happened exactly the way it happened, but I think when more than one culture tells of a great flood, I think that there is some truth to the tale.

I like to use the example of Obi-Wan Kenobi telling Luke that his father was killed by Darth Vader. He did not lie, he made up a myth.

Answer 4

I believe in the fact of Noah's Ark, and just because you can't wrap your mind around a concept doesn't make it untrue. The human race can certainly come from just a single male and female (think Adam and Eve), but you're leaving things out. For instance, aside from Noah and his wife, their three sons and their wives were there, too. So there were actually eight people to repopulate the earth. Plus, it's impossible for humans to have evolved from lower life forms, so that's the myth you should be questioning.

Answer 5

It's a combination of several different stories put in a religious context. There is evidence of great floods, but nothing on the scale mentioned in the bible. There is evidence of a great flood in the black sea, the river euphrates and even north america. These all occurred at different times throughout history. The story of noah in the bible is just another regurgatation of these stories. Whilst floods may did occur, the biblical version is just a myth stolen from the story of gilgamesh.

Atheism. You know it makes sense.

Answer 6

Only those who are spiritually blinded to reason.

Really, who thinks that:

One guy takes 125 years to build a wooden boat with one door and has only a week to load every critter aboard;

Either the earth was completely flat or the water had to be 5 miles deep to cover the Himalayan peaks at 26,397 ft.

On the other hand, the surfing must have been great with endless 1000-foot waves.

Answer 7

I don't, but I imagine that there are hundreds of thousands of evangelical/fundamentalist christians that do.

It's just a myth, after all. Almost every culture has a flood story, but it's just an account of the way ancient, non-scientific and non-historical people thought their world came to be.

Children probably believe word-for-word until the age at which they question Santa and the Tooth Fairy. (And no, I don't mean to facetiously compare those with religion.) But I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a rational-minded adult that takes the myth literally.

Answer 8

ok. read the freakin bible...its there. and if you think it is b.s well you should take that up with GOD. cause it aint bull its all true. what so you believe we came from monkeys.. wow it had to be people. the darwen dude that came up with that told everyone it was a lie and he made it up and he became a christian. so yeah

Answer 9

Noah's Ark was absolutely real.

All the confusion came about because the damn dinosaurs ate the unicorns, got sick and fell overboard while puking.

Answer 10

Newly discovered science would disagree with your statement on "if so, how do deal with the fact that an entire species cannot come from just a single male and female"