If (note the word IF) noah, the ark & the flood was true. How?

Question

(this is going to be a long one) could 8 people cared for all the animals while also sailing the ark. How would they have known the special dietary needs of some of the more exotic animals, stopped the animals from preying on each other. What of lighting, ventilation, and temperature control, hibernation, the survival and germination of seeds, the position of freshwater and saltwater fish, the question of what the animals would have eaten immediately after leaving the Ark, how they traveled (or were gathered) from all over the world to board the Ark and how they could have returned to their far-flung habitats across the Earth's bare, flood bashed land.

All answers welcome

The Ark was supposed to of been 300 hundred cubits long. A cubit is from the elbow to the outstretched finger. It's gross volume was supposed to be about 1.5 million cubic feet - that's less than half the size of the Titanic. Come on folks, down be daft and think that two of every beast would of fitted on there including food, water, straw, hay, holding water tanks for fresh water fish.

8 people were on the Ark and the rest of makind was wiped out. It;s impossible for mankind to generate itself from just 8 people. As impossible as mankind evolving from one man & woman in the first place.

You're all being silly if you believe that story.

Answer 1

The entire story is impossible, but it does create the opportunity for some really amusing questions.

Answer 2

Nearly every major world religion contains a flood story.
Compelling evidence shows that such a flood did happen.
But how? And how did noah or his equivalent in other religions fit all those animals on the ark?
If anything in the bible is to be believed, it's worth taking a non religious view.
First, their are many ancient writings which have not been included in the bible. Second, many of these accounts were handed down mouth to mouth, before being written down.
Now, imagine that this world were about to be destroyed, but it could be possible to save as many remnants of life as possible, after the global devastation all technology would be worthless. Computer systems, down. Electric generating systems,down. etc, you get the picture. Now you've got lets say a dozen survivors, too busy trying to survive to repair any of the transport systems etc that may be intact. Just 12 survivors trying to make a new home and grow crops etc.
Now their children would be told the stories of how the world was, but they could not possibly comprehend boxes with people in them i.e tv's. You get the picture. So over the centuries these old 'stories' become less and less real, but life still goes on.
There is compelling evidence that a highly developed civilisation existed before the flood. That this world was hit by seven comets which caused the water to rise from the seas.
Deep water marine fossils found on mountains etc.
Now if you read some of the old non biblical texts, you read some very eerie stories, such as how man was created as a hybrid between some advanced race and similar mammals from earth. How their women agreed to artificial insemination. etc. All this and much more written thousands of years ago.
The book of genesis is a very short account of the creation story and the flood, when compared to others. But the biblical version does say that noah took animals on the ark, and also the seed of every living thing. A diificult thing for someone to comprehend hundreds of years ago, but today we can create life in a lab. The original biblical texts are worth looking at again with from a modern viewpoint.

Answer 3

I think the answer lies with how the people of Noah's time understood the whole world to be. They were bronze age nomads who mostly tended cattle and lived in tents. I don't believe the entire world was flooded, but it is plausible that a man named Noah built a large ship in a vally and gathered up some of the local animals. It's also plausible that this particular vally flooded not long after and swept our heroes out into the Mediterranean Ocean where they drifted around aimlessly for a while before finding land. It could be that they believed they were the only ones left on earth, not knowing the size of the size of the earth or having any contact with people other than face to face. The "whole world" in Noah's time only extended out a few day's journey.

Answer 4

I've always thought that all the flood myths had to do with the reopening of the Straits of Gibraltar after the last Ice Age. The Atlantic Ocean would have come pouring into the mostly dry bed of the Mediterranean, and the survivors would have told stories about that for generations. (Noah isn't the only flood myth in cultures of Europe, East Asia and Africa, you know)

Answer 5

If you believe, no explanation is necessary, etc.

Personally, I believe Noah built and ark and took on board many, many species of animals, maybe even plants. But I don't believe that the earth was completely submerged (there isn't enough water to do that) or that the ark was the only way to survive the Deluge, which is noted in many primitive people's folklore, not just Hebrew history.

Answer 6

it's bollocks mate. Since it only took a day or two in genesis 1 for God to create animals, wouldn't it have been easier to have lifted Noah et al onto a suspended rock, electrocute the earth killing everything, and then take a day or two to recreate all the animals?
Also, did anyone wonder how Noah et al & the surviving animals would have avoided disease from all the rotting carcoses of the flood victims? hahahahaha great story

Answer 7

Noah and the ark is simply a story. It's a fable and not intended to be mistaken as history. The Bible is not a history text book, it's a compendium of fables. These fables were used to teach a simple people, just as we use made up stories to teach children today. The sad thing is that many adults today who consider themselves well-educated and ratoinal actually still believe these fables. Those of use who really are well-educated don't.

Answer 8

It's a myth and not meant to be taken literally. It is a story designed to illustrate a change in the relationship between God and Man. Having said that, it is probably based loosely on a true event, like the inundation of the area between the Tigris and Euphrates or perhaps the flooding of the Mediterranean sea - who knows?

I always find it amazing that people from 1000BC could understand the concept of myth and people from 2000AD can't!

Answer 9

Noah majored in zoology for the one year he attended community college. So he was well versed on how to build a ship, provision it, and keep aboard it all the animals in the world.

Answer 10

I think they were all babies or very young.
God told him how to make the ark, I'm sure he told him what food to pack.

They were on there like 6 months so hibernation would be OK
The land on the earth at that time was not separated-so these animals could get there to the ark.
Not sure how they got back...I'm sure there was a way.

Answer 11

The Noah tale came from the earlier tale's of Gilgamesh one of a few tales of a great deluge from around the world.