How did diseases survive after 'Noah's flood'?

Question

I have looked at the bible story and also more background information such as the below passage. How do Christians explain this-or is it all lies?

"Many diseases can't survive in hosts other than humans. Many others can only survive in humans and in short-lived arthropod vectors. The list includes typhus, measles, smallpox, polio, gonorrhea, syphilis. For these diseases to have survived the Flood, they must all have infected one or more of the eight people aboard the Ark.
Other animals aboard the ark must have suffered from multiple diseases, too, since there are other diseases specific to other animals, and the nonspecific diseases must have been somewhere"

kaitlyn j-Fantastic piece of non thought.

Celtic Rose-"Well, the flood was only local (Black Sea) and most of the people who lived near it at the time of the flood, got away in time, so there wasn't actually a big enough loss to cause diseases to vanish because of it"

?? I thought god flooded the world to kill everyone apart from Noah and family?

Answer 1

How about plants? Did he bring all plants on his boat, especially those that cannot survive long submersion?

What a load of nonsense, and people still believe it.

Answer 2

Well, the flood was only local (Black Sea) and most of the people who lived near it at the time of the flood, got away in time, so there wasn't actually a big enough loss to cause diseases to vanish because of it.

But anyway, who says those diseases didn't just appear well after the flood?


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Don't tell me you actually believe that sh!te cos I know I don't... I'm only calling it the flood cos it happened around the same time as they assume the flood had occured, and they expect that's where the myths come from... o.O

Answer 3

Hi,and when in John 1, Heb.13:8 it says Jesus the Second member of The Godhead created this world the earth was perfect even after the curse in Gen. 3 the earth was beautiful but after the Flood this earth changed even the atmosphere disease was made worse after the flood, did you know sea weed was discovered in our lifetime by explorers on Mountain tops, there is proof for those who seek it God's Word is what it says,The Inspired Word of God, free bible lessons www.itiswritten.com email not messenger me also [e-mail] God bless

Answer 4

properly in case you deny the existence of evolution Noah had to deliver each little thing from introduction which replaced into to stay to tell the story the flood so all of them, Noah's kin, could have been loaded with ailments which require basically a human host.

Answer 5

What is with all the Noah questions. Read, google, or wiki the Epic of Gilgamesh. The story of Noah is just a duplication of that story, only no one ever took the Epic of Gilgamesh seriously. I find it sad that some people take seriously a story that people thousands of years ago were able to figure out wasn't true.

Answer 6

Many desease is old and new due to environmental changes,new strains of desease not able to be treated with milder forms of antibiotics.Animals can give us desease,parasites,etc.The strains a in the hundreds maybe thousands depending on the species.

Answer 7

some germs could have evolved and/or mutated after the Flood. and water doesn't necessarily kill germs, anyway. some germs are very reluctant to die, like the staphylococcus germs left unprotected on the Moon that survived.

Answer 8

Read: Diseases on the Ark
http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v8/i1/diseases.asp

Answer 9

I know that your question is addressed towards Christians but I would just like to point out that the Quran says that Noahs flood was a local flood, for his people:

We sent Noah to his People (with the Command): "Do thou warn thy People before there comes to them a grievous Penalty." (Quran 71:1)

Answer 10

well Noah and his family went all around the earth and collected all diseases
or God being so good put them all back in the world