While I've seen many people ask how the animals from the ark got distributed after the flood...?

Question

I want to know how Noah managed to collect species from Continents that he didn't evn know about? How did he get South Pole penguins? North American grizzlies? Australian kangaroos? And how did he manage to bring back every species of animal, times 2, from Africa? How many trips would he have had to have made? What if, for examples, the lions he brought back on an earlier trip died or ate another creature? Did he have to bring back more than 2 prey animals for the predators to snack on while they waited for him to get back from his journeys? How did he get Polar bears to the ark?

So for believers of a global flood, don't say god can do anything as the bible is pretty clear Noah did the legwork getting the animals together. But HOW??

Answer 1

I asked similar questions a while back and was informed that the animals all lived under the same climate conditions and that the continents were all connected 6000 years ago. After the flood, the animals changed to need different climates to live. I've also been told that the earth was covered by a canopy of water and there was no precipitation until after the great flood. I'm truly amazed at how hard people work to interpret the story as a literal fact rather than a metaphor

Answer 2

Genesis 7:15 says "Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark." God brought the animals to Noah. As for numbers, the biblical kind is higher up on the taxonomic scale than the species. It's probably at the genus level or even the family. This would mean that there were no more than 16,000 animals on board a ship with 1.5 million cubic feet of space. After the Flood, there are accounts of animals floating on vegetation for miles, so that could have distributed some animals. As ppl migrated after the Tower of Babel, they could have taken domesticated animals, which were probably numerous considering the fact that they would have probably tried to look after the animals that were saved, so they would have domesticated some.

Also, it's thought that the world was one landmass at the time, which has been called Pangea by geologists, and that during the Flood, there was seismic activity, separating the continents. So getting the animals may not have been as much of a problem.

A book called "Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study" by John Woodmorappe could be useful in helping you understand more about it. Answers in Genesis sells it.

Answer 3

Apparently God lowered Himself out of the sky and used his mind to control the animals coming towards the ark. I think the only animals that entered into the ark were the regional or local animals. But since Noah was somewhere in Irak, Iran, or Turkey (Asia) many of these animals lived there too. I am not making fun of you because this is what I think happened.

Answer 4

Genesis 6:20 Of fowls of their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort SHALL COME UNTO THEE, to keep them alive.

According to the Bible the animals came on their own. God instructed Noah to build the ark not gather the animals. Also it wasn't all on the same day. The time between God's command to build the ark and the occurence of the Flood was 100 years. Noah did not need every species just two of each KIND. Two bears, two penguins, two dogs, etc. From those two all the other species derived over time. Good question.

God Bless You.

Answer 5

who're we to question the observe of God? If it got here approximately actually, God would desire to do it. The flood would desire to have been community or international extensive. i replaced into not there, nor any of the different Yahoos! whether it fairly is an allegory for the arrival tribulation (which would be even worse than demise from a flood) possibly it replaced right into a parable to describe the unexplainable. which would be ok too! Ask the Holy Spirit to shead mild on the Scriptures, through fact "God in basic terms knows of the mystries of existence", as my mom continuously pronounced. Jesus is our ARK to flow over to the different side. the superb athlete would desire to run as much as the sea coast and leap with all his would desire to, in spite of the fact that it does not gt him around the large divide. yet as quickly as we settle for a experience contained in the "Ark" of salvation, in Christ, we are in a position to get in the time of, whether we are actually not the superb. it fairly is asserted that Mohamed Ali (nee Cassius Clay) the long term international heavyweight boxing champion went around asserting "i'm the superb!" On a flight in the time of to Europe, he advised the stewardess "NO. i don't want a seat belt. i'm the gretest". properly he nonetheless mandatory a airplane!!! in addition, while you are the superb guy in the international, and get into an elevator to pass up, as as much as heaven, the gadget takes you no the place for how large you're. yet all are waiting to upward push with the aid of pushing the button, like accepting salvation to pass to heaven. The flood would be a narrative meant to instruct an excellent significant fact approximately God's plan of salvation, whether God purely inspired it as a parable or unquestionably did it as an occasion.

Answer 6

Pangaea makes the most sense to me. And what I'm learning now, before the Flood there was this canopy thingy around which increased earth's atmospheric pressure...and that's why you hear about people living till they're almost a 1000 years old. After the Flood, the canopy was ruined too and animals had to become accustomed to t he area they were living in. Seasons came about, etc.

Answer 7

I'm not saying i believe this but i the context of the story what i always thought was that every animal was compelled by G-d to journey to the ark by themselves.

Answer 8

well according to the creation museum all the animals started on one continent and then "diversified" after the flood. and then, all the trees that were felled magically lashed themselves together into rafts which the animals got on and floated on over to other planets.

makes sense to me

Answer 9

Did the Inca's and the Asians have their own ark? The only explanation is they had to have had one also OR the whole story is B.S.!

I know which way I am leaning.

Answer 10

If you go to conservipedia, you'll see that all animals started in the middle east. Including kangaroos.


Yeah, it's really sad how deluded they've become.

Edit: Lmao @ FedEx answer.