Why do atheists seem to think it's laughable that there were dinosuars on Noah's ark?

Question

I'm guessing it's the thought of a 50 ton T-rex on a boat, along with a whole bunch of other adult dinosaurs crammed into every corner of the Ark.

And if Noah had to take full-size T-rexs and other full size dinosaurs, obviously there wouldn't have been enough room. So I'm guessing atheists think this is funny because they think it disproves the Bible. But of course there is an easy way to resolve this apparent difficulty - Noah must have taken younger, smaller dinosaurs, baby dinosaurs.

Lots of room on the ark then.

Not so funny though (although it is kind of amusing how silly this atheist objection turns out to be).

Or is there another reason atheists seem to love to bring up dinosaurs and Noah's ark?

Answer 1

I don't know but that is indeed amusing .

Answer 2

Assuming you are serious, the fact that the dinosaurs had been extinct for millions of years before Man (including Noah) came to be can be proven (geologically and other ways). The dimensions of the ark are given in the Bible and it is in no way big enough to house 2 of everything that WAS alive at the time of the alleged flood. Even if they were all eggs or babies or whatever the smallest version of each you can imagine to be. Never mind enough food for all of them for the time it took for the waters to recede. There is plenty about this story that does not (forgive me) hold water, without ever bringing dinosaurs into it.

Answer 3

T-rex on the ark. For some reason that cracks me up every time I hear it. But wouldn't have the elephants have squashed the baby dinosaurs? XD But seriously if indeed Noah took dinosaurs on the ark, why doesn't the bible talk about them after the flood was over?

Answer 4

The whole story about Noah's ark is totally ludicrous. Back during that time the technology to build a really large vessel was not in existence. In today's world, technology has given us the large aircraft carriers which are ships that can carry 5,000 men and 90 airplanes. But as large as they are, they still would not be capable of loading two animals of each species that exist on the earth.

Of course, those who disagree with this will say things like "it's magic" or "the lord works in mysterious ways", etc. But what they can't give you is an honest, believable answer.

Answer 5

Wow, what an intellectual rationalization for what might otherwise be considered truly goofy. Well, maybe not so intellectual. Actually, this is quite funny. You really want to know why atheists think that belief in the tooth fairy is laughable. Ha, ha. Baby dinosaurs. Very funny. The bark of the ark.

Answer 6

Considering that there were at the VERY LEAST 200 species of dinosaurs, even if Noah's Ark held only babies, that would still be quite an impossible load, what with every other species of animal on board.

I suppose Noah could have taken eggs, and perhaps God would have helped in the selection of eggs to ensure there was one male, one female. I also suppose God could have insured they were healthy and survived to be able to procreate.

That said, I have a hard enough time with my two dogs not killing my two rabbits, so I don't see how Noah was able to keep predators from doing what predators do on such a massive scale.

Answer 7

Two reasons: firstly, dinosaurs were gone sixty million years before there were any creatures on the planet that could remotely be called human. Secondly, because the ark story is fiction, as could be determined by anyone with a shovel and the ability to count: the annual layers of the Antarctic ice cap go back hundreds of thousands of years. No flood.

Answer 8

I'm a MAINLINE Christian ... not a Christofacist fundamentalist and I think dinosaurs on the ark is laughable.

As to whether there was an ark at all . . . I don't know . . .but I do know that a fundamentalist reading of the ark narrative is a journey into ignorance. Such right-wing fundamentalists make the Christian religion laughable.

Answer 9

You should go look up how many different species of dinosaurs there were, and how big the babies were, as you study you will begin to see that even if all the dinosaurs were babies they still would not fit on an ark.

Answer 10

Actually the whole Ark mythology is pretty clear on all animals being brought in adult pairs.

But yeah, like Zer0 said, the whole thought of taking the Ark story to be true is beyond laughable...

Answer 11

In the fossil record (so incomplete, remember?), there have been 700 species recorded so far. So now we have 1400+ baby dinosaurs on the ark. Plus one idiot on a computer (what would Jesus do about spam?) that still doesn't get the joke.