How did Noah fit ~100,000,000 species of animal on the Ark?

Question

And if he had one of each "kind", would that mean evolution worked faster than ever imagined possible to produce the diversity we see now?

Answer 1

The logical part of me says it just didn't happen.

The flippant part of me, which believes (among other things) the sky is blue because if it was green we wouldn't know where to stop mowing our lawns, however, thinks it happened like this:

God gave Noah the same technology the Time Lords off "Doctor Who" use, to make the ark bigger on the inside than on the outside, that way he had a nearly limitless supply of room to put all the creatures in (along with all the food he'd need, the millions of self motivated shovels he'd have to have to clean up the crap, etc), and the ability to just vanish from one part of the globe and appear in another part to pick up all the animals and drop them back off in the right spot.

You know, a sort of "Noah's Tarkis"...

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Answer 2

Well most species are bugs right? They are small. LOL. Could you imagine trying to keep track of all the bugs. Oh my god. LOL. How the hell would you feed all those. The things that are wrong with that story are numerous. I think the real answer lies in the fact that a human made it up. He wrote it from a human perspective, not a divine one.

I love the way Christians claim it doesn't say species, it says kind. Well of course it doesn't, the modern Biological classification system wasn't around in Antiquity you idiots. When it says kind you know what it ******* means. It means specie and you know it. The same when they try to claim that when the Bible says the Earth was created in 7 days and they say, well, we don't know how long a day is. Yes we do. It's 24 hours, and that's what it means in the Bible. That's how I know it's a load of ****.

Answer 3

Well, IF and I mean IF the entire earth were really destroyed, we would have no idea of the technology Noah would have lived with. Perhaps he was able to store the DNA of each species and then clone them. I don't take the Bible literally, so maybe he lived in an area that was flooded or maybe the entire story is meant to help us be faithful. Not sure, but you could come up with an explanation of the story of the flood that would make sense and could not be refuted.

Answer 4

He didn't. Genesis is nowhere near correct. Science has proven pretty much the whole book false. The earth is definitelyt more than 7000 years old, humans evolved from ape-like creatures as opposed to being humans from the start, and there's a whole list of other untrue things in it.

Answer 5

I had someone tell me the koala bear evolved from a normal bear post-Ark.........even though "koala bear" is slang and they are a marsupial.


I also heard the same thing about the polar bear post-Ark (since Noah couldnt' have picked them up), although it still doesn't explain how the "ancestor" got to the arctic regions.



Good luck.

Answer 6

Noah's Ark was a metaphor for an ancient DNA facility.

Answer 7

the flying animals took shifts in the air and many slept on each other. of course the aquatic animals stayed in water. and god used his magick to filter fresh water from salt water, thus creating zones for each animal.

oh yeah. and animals often took shifts swimming around in the water. all of this created space and made it possible.

and god altered their DNA immediately after the flood to create more diversity and help with the inbreeding problem.


either all of this, or it's a myth.

Answer 8

Here's the logic... god can do anything so he made all the animals run into the ark. Which raises the question, why didn't god just zap the animals to the mountain in the first place?















... because you wouldn't have a bedtime story of course.

Answer 9

Noah? Global flood? Ark? What's missing? Oh, yeah, myth.

Answer 10

Let's see, the Old Testament is allegory, intended for the mind of a precocious 8 year old. How can this be? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.