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What did the animals eat afterwards? For the herbivores, all the plants would have been dead from the flood. And for the carnivores, they would have had to eat the other animals, thereby causing many species to become extinct. So why are there still so many herbivores if the carnivores would've had to eat most of them?

2007-05-21 14:29:02 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

When I previously asked about who believed Noah's Ark story to be absolutely true including a global flood, there were aLOT of yes's. So why aren't those people answering this question? Oh, and the animals weren't on the ark long enough to already give birth to babies and the carnivores wouldn've starved before any pregnancy came to term.

2007-05-21 14:39:07 · update #1

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Very good, thought-provoking question! I've never thought about this before, but this is what I have come up with off the top of my head.

There was an equal number of animals of each species on the ark. Some came in pairs, while 7 pairs of some other animals came. Because of this, there were extra animals.

I think they began mating immediately and reproduced like crazy.

The animals and Noah's family didn't get off the Ark immediately after the Flood. They waited until a dove brought back a branch from an olive tree and then didn't come back at all, showing that there was vegetation growing again. Noah and his family brougt plenty of food on the Ark for themselves and the animals.

There would have been many dead animals from the flood that they could have fed on.

Again, just off the top of my head. Thanks for the question!

2007-05-21 14:38:32 · answer #1 · answered by misskatiemichelle 2 · 1 1

Even if you take the story literally, you're not describing the story of the Ark as presented in the Old Testament. You keep throwing in "must have's" which don't necessarily follow. The flood "must have" covered Mt. Everest, the number of animal species "must have" been greater than the account describes. There were also more than two of some species, only two of others. We don't know what part of the earth the flood covered, how it affected other continents, or which animal species required saving. It's not clear how much of the earth contained a human population at this point. I don't think the account needs to be taken literally, but you have to start by getting the actual story straight.

2016-04-01 01:30:53 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

The flood story as told in the bible is a remake of a much older story. As far back as it can be traced is to ancient Sumeria. The precurser to Noah was a man by the name of Utnapishtim. The god that warned him was at that time called Enki-Ea. The names of Jehovah and Noah, and the story itself, is like a remake of an old movie with the names of the players changed. This story is often referred to as the Gilgamesh epic. There is not much doubt that there was some sort of flood, or perhaps even a series of tidal waves that hit a few shores at the same time. The cause of this would have been a very natural one such as that caused by an earthquake or volcano under the waters. It may even have been caused by a large astroid or meteor smacking into the water. Whatever the cause you can rest assured that the disaster has a scientific basis. However, because it affected more than one shore the memory of it all became fixed in the minds of the people and was carried down throughout the generations. The greatest majority of what is in the bible has a scientific foundation from thousands of years before the title Christianity came into being. The fact that these scientific facts were thrown into the religious arena served to preserve them. There was never at any time a world wide flood that covered the entire globe. These are no more than fragmented echoes of a long forgotten past. The bible is to messed up to take much in it literally. Those individuals who take every word quite literally find themselves in a bit of a quandry when they come against a scripture such as that found in Jeremiah 7 verse 22. In this verse god is talking to the prophet Jeremiah and he states "For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices". The book of Jeremiah is more than half way throughout the bible. Now, if god says he didn't talk to Jeremiahs forefathers concerning sacrifice then who did? If we can't believe the part about the sacrifices, which take up a great part of the bible, then how can we believe the rest of it? No, there was never a world wide flood where the 'entire' earth was covered. However, the bible served to carry through many of the ancient stories, symbols and codes that are vital to this planet, but they were not carried through by a god, but by individuals who loved their gods. I don't know if this will assist you at all but my url is found at (http://ca.geocities.com/rachelpowerslane). I speak there of a very few of the codes that came through the bible.

2007-05-21 18:54:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Lets not forget the fish, birds, carcases, tall trees, etc. I imagine that plant life that grew at high altitudes were safe. Plus Noah and his family stayed in the ark a lot longer than the 40 days and 40 nights of the flood. Who knows, maybe during all that time, some of the floating vegetation and debris were sprouting.

There are some who believe the ark ended up in the mountains of Russia. By the design that can be gathered using satellite images, it seems that the ark, if that is what they found, was not made to really go anywhere. As long as it stayed afloat, that was the main thing.

2007-05-21 14:45:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Dear Mel
you have made the same n=mistake as too many 19th century German Scolars that Bible is to taken litterary. By the way I have a question of my own. If the Great Deluge or something similarto it did not hapen why do wevhave mentions of it in cultures who did not came in to contact whith the Jewish pepple untiil well in the historical times. fpr example the Greecs did have their own version with diferent names (Deucalion) and they did not came in to contact with the Jews until Alexnder the Great's time whereas theis version is recorded as early as the 7th century BC. that is 400 years before. also could you explain me the Soumerian version recorded in the Book of Gigalmes wich predates the Jewish one by at least 1000 years? Thank you very much and I enjoy your stimulating questions althouh I do not neccesserily agree

2007-05-21 22:37:52 · answer #5 · answered by chrisvoulg1 5 · 0 0

The flood was local. There is no reason to assume that the Hebrew account is talking about a world-wide flood. The herbivores ate plants, and the carnivores ate animals. The animals on the Ark were domestic.

2007-05-21 14:33:29 · answer #6 · answered by NONAME 7 · 2 4

as an atheist i would say that at the beginning noah´s family was much larger and they sacrifice themselves, the herbivores just changed their diets for a little while and after the flood they came back to normal diet

2007-05-21 14:41:08 · answer #7 · answered by alberto k 3 · 0 0

The olive branch is another problem with the story. All plant life would be dead.

Not too mention of course how'd he fit all those animals on the arc, how did he get say kangaroos, how did the animals get evenly spread out through the world again, with geographical specific regions for certain animals?

Really how in 2007 can people still buy this in the slightest, it just amazes me and worries me at the same time.

2007-05-21 14:38:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2 3

I don't know the answer to that. But remember, there was plant life on the earth again. The second dove Noah sent out came back with an olive branch *smile*.

2007-05-21 14:32:34 · answer #9 · answered by Esther 7 · 3 2

Obviously the plants were growing as part of a plant was brought back by the bird.

2007-05-21 14:36:45 · answer #10 · answered by RB 7 · 2 0

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