According to Jewish, Islamic and Christian mythologies, the earth was devastated, plants drowned, what did the carnivores eat? Fish?
2007-07-22 19:10:23 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I want to know how they kept the carnivores from eating prey while they were on the ark. I saw the inconsistencies in this story when I was 4. I guess some people don't let logic get in the way of their faith.
2007-07-22 19:13:21 · answer #1 · answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋
Very good question.
Some of the animals could have eaten greens right away after getting off the barge one year later. It took about a year for the water to be abated from off the earth, and they only left the boat when a dove brought back leaf or twig of some sort, so at that time they knew things had grown.
I know extra animals were taken for meat to eat, but not enought for various large carnivors to eat meat on a regular basis after the flood.
So I don't know.
For the first year the animals were in some state of hibernation, that was the 600th year of the life of Noah.
Now I am wondering.
Scripture says "in the last days they will mock the Flood."
2007-07-23 02:21:46 · answer #2 · answered by David L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of the plants survived after the waters receded from the face of the earth. The dove brought back a leaf from an olive tree. In addition, there may have been left over food from the ark that had not yet been eaten when they first left it. And of course there were fish.
2007-07-23 02:23:19 · answer #3 · answered by Northstar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you read the story you would recall that the dove brought back an olive branch...clearly there was vegetation. Of course there also was fish and God does provided. He created the entire world but you have trouble believing God could provide food for a few animals?
2007-07-23 02:19:09 · answer #4 · answered by djmantx 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Remember that Noah had a large supply of food in the ark, enough to last another year, maybe. The birds were not dead. Maybe Noah hunted birds for them. Why do you call them "mythologies"? do you believe the story of Noah's ark to be a myth then?
2007-07-23 02:18:23 · answer #5 · answered by Barbara E 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The food that they had stored for the time of the flood. There was enough for everyone. (And the carnivores at meat that they had brought in the ark.)
2007-07-23 02:14:07 · answer #6 · answered by Popcorn 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
By the time everyone left the arc the earth already had time to produce vegetation in areas. I'm sure God provided for them after all He commanded them to be fruitful and multiply.
2007-07-23 02:13:41 · answer #7 · answered by stpolycarp77 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You're not too far wrong. They ate caviar.
Yes, that's right. It's a little known fact that
all the little inhabitants of Noah's ark were
the very first connoisseurs.
2007-07-23 02:14:41 · answer #8 · answered by Pete K 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
nothing. They all died and the world ended. What you see before you is all an illusion made up by the Christians, because they are afraid to die.
2007-07-23 02:21:12 · answer #9 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was vegetation already. I don't think Noah brought fish along. They could survive well enough in the water.
2007-07-23 02:12:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋