Were the sea cucumbers more righteous?
2007-06-07 07:39:24 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
hehehehehe I amazingly enough, haven't heard that one. Now that's damn funny.
Let's see......I can't even come up with a smartass answer to that.
And you know, now that I thought about it some more....since salt water is heavier then fresh I would imagine that in the deep parts of the ocean it still would have been very very salty. What am I talking about-I don't believe in this crap anyway.
2007-06-07 07:41:43 · answer #1 · answered by chickey_soup 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The huge disruption to the salinity of the oceans, caused by the global flood, could have resulted in a lot of marine creatures dying. Of course, we don't know because a major source of the flood water was from springs bursting up from the deep (below the oceans) and they might have had salt. It's all academic, though, because clearly ancestors of all the present-day marine life survived enough to give us oceans full of them now. As for the land animals... well drowning was going to happen to all creatures living on the land surfaces. You couldn't flood the land to destroy humans and not kill the animals as well. Hence the need to get pairs of every kind of land animal safely into the ark before the rain began falling. All I can say is that the evil abounding on Earth at that time must have been monumental (as the Bible says it was.) It probably went way beyond the evil we presently see all around us just now. I suppose that when all of society gets to a pitch where they call evil good, and good evil - that might approximate the days of Noah. We are seeing evidence of this in some sectors of society now. Wait till the balance tips and we slide into parallel conditions.
2016-05-19 01:36:50 · answer #2 · answered by maricela 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem with this and most Biblical stories is that many people take them so literally that they do do any research, question their validity, or think them through. These stories were meant to be lessons in spiritual ideas, not historical facts. There was a flood in the region of the Dead Sea several thousand years ago according to scientific research but it not include the WHOLE planet. It was regional.
In case you DO believe the story in a literal sense, there were supposedly 2 of each species on the Ark. It must have been on hell of a big boat! I have to wonder about the sewage system (ewww!). Besides why would you put the fish inside the boat?
In any case the lesson was that we are all part of the same family. Consider it the original "save the planet" story perhaps.
2007-06-07 07:56:11 · answer #3 · answered by Music man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To flood the Earth I think you need about 2x the volume of the oceans.
So you would end up with water that was about a third as salty as the current ocean.
This would be to fresh for most sea creatures and too salty for most freshwater.
The real question is that after about a year of living, or in actuality dying, in this brackish water how most of the aquatic species actually survived.
Was this actually an attempt by god to wipe out the shellfish? After all they are an abomination.
2007-06-07 07:49:42 · answer #4 · answered by Simon T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently the fiction writers who made up this story did not anticipate this question, and others as well. Either that, or "god" could not think of a way to kill every living thing on earth, and still allow Noah and his "ark" full of dinosaurs to survive. How about this question too; of the animals that Noah saved from the "flood", what did the meat-eating animals eat, after they were released from the ark at 14,000 feet on Mt Ararat?
2007-06-07 07:52:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the mythical god of the old testament is a murderer.
Exodus 12:29-30
"The LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon.... And there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead."
2007-06-07 07:43:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
He didn't kill ALL the land animals. He let two of each on the ark to continue the repopulation. Probably only a FEW sea animals survived because you might forget that a flood is damaging to EVERYTHING. it wipes out everything. Debris alone could kill the animals.
2007-06-07 07:43:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Technically this would have killed all saltwater life due to the concentration of salt being much much less. Only freshwater life would be saved, and ALL saltwater life, not even 2 of each kind, would die.
2007-06-07 07:43:50 · answer #8 · answered by Edward V 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God didn't kill all the land animals. Remember the giant ark Noah was on that was filled with a pair of each type of animal? A lot of sea creatures DID die and we have fossils to prove that.
2007-06-07 07:43:11 · answer #9 · answered by voodewchile 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋
because the sea life can live in the sea, and animals drown?
that's why he made a Ark to save some so they would multiply afterwards?
2007-06-07 07:43:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋