Does anyone seriously believe in Noah's Ark to be literally true?

Answer 1

Yes, there are actually idiots spending good money to climb Mt. Ararat to find pieces of it.

There are people on this planet who are starving and so-called "christians" are spending money on pointless expeditions to find non-existent boats.

Answer 2

I believe it was a true story. I believe that Noah was a real person and that there was a real flood. Many cultures from diverse parts of the world know this same story. It has to be based on something.
However, I am also open to the possibility that the flood was only "worldwide" from Noah's perspective. Perhaps the flood did not cover the whole planet. It would be very difficult to fit the thousands of known species into that Ark and keep them there for 40 days. But these are just details.
I believe the Bible. I believe that Noah was a real figure, even if I don't understand exactly what happened.

Answer 3

Parts of it are technically possible for even the most ardent secularist. If a person is to use the lists of 'clean' and 'dirty' animals in Leviticus, you will come up with a total of two hundred and some animals(2 each of the clean, 7 each of the dirty). With a timetable not listed, it wouldn't be hard for a few people to gather the animals. Then it depends on interpretation and exaggeration. For example, the 'world' could also be translated to mean a region. The size of the ark listed makes it around 500ft long, 80ft wide and, 50ft tall. That is actually one of the most stable ratios available for an ocean going vessel. One hitch, a vessel of that size couldn't be made of wood since the wood can't withstand the pressure the ocean would exert. However, no one actually knows what 'gopherwood'(what the ark was to be made of) is....
Another odd fact, every continent has had indigenous people with a very similar flood myth with strange correlations(Mayans brewed alcohol, Noah made wine).

Answer 4

Some do.

They have problems in supporting it though. They can't explain how animals got to different places on Earth. Why are there no Pandas or Kangaroos in North America? How did land mammals get to North America unless Noah put them there, and if he did, why are there so many of the same species around the world if only two of each were on the ark?

The Bible doesn't answer everything, and much in the Bible is metaphor while the literalists refuse to accept that.

It's sad that people put more faith in a book that is supposed to describe a god than they do in the god that the book is trying to describe.

Answer 5

Think about how many different animals there are, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and all the different species, how about felines canines for example...cougars, bobcats, tigers, lynx, snow leopards, cheetahs, ocelot, jaguars, panters, lions, and so on. Great danes, border colles, Chihuahuas, Irish wolfhounds, pit bulls, boxers, poodles, pugs, etc. These are just a few examples of cats and dogs, think of how long the list would go on when you take every species of animal into account...TWO of each one of them, also. How big would the ark have to be? And think about all the food that would have to be stored to feed all these animals for 40 days. How could anyone possibly take this literally? Not one animal died during the trip? (remember it's two of each, no backups in case some died). Or wait, maybe some did die, maybe that's what happened to the unicorns, minotaurs, pixies, manticores, and pegasus.

Answer 6

Sadly, there are many people who are stupid enough to believe it.

Never mind the physical impossibilities. The impossible logistics. The impossible physics.

Never mind that it is impossible for a wooden vessel of the size and shape descibed in the Bible to not collapse under the stresses of the sea. Never mind that it is impossible to provide enough air for the acreatures inside to live through one tiny window. Never mind the needs of all the animals to eat, excrete, and move. Never mind the fact that many animals need very specific environments or foods to survive. Never mind the total inability for such a small group of humans to care for all of them. Never mind the total abscence of any physical evidence of any worldwide flood. Never mind the total lack of any sign of a genetic "bottleneck"...the result of all of humanity starting from a very small group. Never mind the magical disappearance of all the water.

You still have morons who will believe it. Just like you have believers in David Icke and Alex Jones.

Worse yet are the people who manufacture fraudulent "evidence" (Ron Wyatt, etc...) to try to back up their nonsense. And those who come up with outright lies to try to support it: Like claiming that every civilization has had a flood story: Surprise! You're wrong.

Someone on here claimed that half the Ark of Noah had been found. Put up or shut up.

Answer 7

Yes, and it is really sad that this story and so many others are passed along as nonfiction. It seems the religions will find a thousand ways to rationalize bible stories when any thinking person can see otherwise.

Answer 8

I believe in a God who has SUPERNATURAL powers, therefore I believe that the story of Noah's Ark is true.

We find fossil records worldwide. How could fossils have come into being if there was not great pressure (by the Flood) exerted on the creatures that we find in the fossil record?
Normally if creatures die, they decay or are eaten up by scavengers. But the fossils were preserved through the layers that were pressed on them.

Answer 9

Yes, because stories of a Great World Wide Flood, appear in all mythologies around the world.

Answer 10

I do. In South Florida the ground is filled with millions of petrified sea creatures, like clams, with the bodies still in them. There are tons of them in my driveway. These types of fossils occur all over the world. The only way for this to have happened is for a cataclysmic flood of water and sediment to have occurred in a brief amount of time in order to petrify a living object in its shell to the point that it could not rot or be eaten. A flood of this magnitude would leave no survivors; but since we are all here along with the flood evidence, someone had to have survived the flood. I have come to find the Bible as an amazingly reliable source of history and science, so why should I doubt it on the Noah story? Seems perfectly logical to me.
-Rev. Jim Cunningham

Answer 11

Yes