After 227 days under floodwater all vegetation would be destroyed. What did Noah's animals eat?

Question

No terrestrial plant life could survive submerged under deep water for a tenth of that time, but after landing on Mount Ararat Noah released the animals to fend for themselves. How did the herbivores survive? And if the carnivores survived by eating the herbivores, how come some herbivores still made it through (even though they had nothing to eat)?

No, Barry, nothing could have grown under floodwater that covered the mountaintops for 227 days. Ground plants need oxygen and light, neither of which could possibly have been present under such a depth of water. You should have been listening in your plant biology classes. Sorry.

Answer 1

The dinosaurs were on the ark.

They carried all the animals to where they needed to be, kangaroos to Australia, lemurs to Madagascar, etc. and then were a food source until the ecosystem recovered!



So, Noah builds an ark by himself, buying wood, pitch, tools, etc. with? This takes a minor miracle.

2 (or 4 plus 7 or 14 of clean animals depending on how you read it) of all animals get to the ark. This takes a miracle.

It rains for 40 days. Providing all that water takes a miracle.

The biggest wooden seagoing vessel ever rides out this storm without leaking or breaking up. This requires a miracle.

All the salt water fish do not die in the brackish water, neither do the freshwater fish. This takes a miracle.

Thew animals are fed for 227 days, mucked out for 227 days and are ventilated though a single window without forced ventilation for 227 days. These each need a miracle.

The water goes from whence it came. This needs a miracle.

All the plants survive being immersed in brackish water for 227 days. This needs a miracle.

The land that has been soaked in salty water for 227 days is still fertile. This needs a miracle.

All the animals fail to eat each other. This needs a miracle.

All the animals get back to their respective places without leaving any trace. This needs a miracle.

All other traces that would have been left from a global flood are wiped away. This requires a miracle.

The genetics of all animals and humans are altered to make it appear that they are more genetically diverse. This requires a miracle.

Finally god changes the laws of physics such that water refracts different wavelengths of light differently. (So now you can have a rainbow.) This requires a miracle.



Now an omnipotent god can choose to do it all this way, but it would seem a lot more practical of an omnipotent and omnicognocent god to just zap all the unworthy into non-existence and save everyone a lot of hassles, never mind the death of billions of god's innocent creatures.

Answer 2

Animals mostly were sleeping at the moment such as animal sleeping in the winter. Due to the Ice ages, the weather were cold and the water will not deep as the matter of fact, the mountains did not come up yet. The whole globle water embraved the earth not over 100 meter. some of the water creatures still alive. We are not the Ice ages people, we cannot absent jugment the facts. I am not challenging bible but I agree certain points in bible were real. Although I am not agree with creation by god who created by what?
Example; An old house with tenant, I don't know whether the tenant buildt the house or the tenant live in the house. If god is created at that moment, who created him?

Answer 3

Never read the story, have you? It rained 40 days and 40 nights. The water "prevailed on," (or covered), the earth for 150 days. From the time it started raining, until the earth was dry, was about 395 days. Do you think that in over 200 days, something could have started growing?

Answer 4

I read a different version of Noah's ark, it had to do with the fact that the Nile river was basically a flood plain, and people could never build homes right on the river banks, but they did have boats there
Noah was the first man to build a 'houseboat', a boat large enough for his livestock, presumably cattle, goats, and possibly fowl of some type, which he was able to keep afloat during the seasonal flooding and then would be set when the flooding receded.
I think that makes more sense than the biblical version

Answer 5

Perhaps Noah packed enough provisions for them within the ark.

A better question would be: how did Noah prevent all sorts of horrible recessive traits from coming out in successive generations, considering that he had only a gene pool of two to start every new species over? It would've made more sense to bring along two pregnant females of every species, to increase the gene pool -- but of course, the Bronze Age primitives who made up the bible knew nothing about genetics, and didn't know they'd have this massive hole in their story....

Answer 6

Consider this, to cover the entire face of the earth it would need to be submerged under 4+ miles worth of water. This means that most, if not all, seeds would have been crushed. This also applies to insects, eggs etc.

Answer 7

trying to be scientific about an old Babylonian myth is ridiculous.
The herbivores ate from cans of preserved peas and beans, and the carnivores bought fast food from McDonald's. the omnivores only ate in French restaurants

Answer 8

God created everything in the beginning, what makes you think he couldn't manage to keep plants alive during their time underwater, or even just make new plants as soon as ground was dry?

Answer 9

One of the birds brought back an olive leaf, so the vegetation was there. In all, the time period was around a year.

Answer 10

Read what God ordered Noah...the food was all stored by him.