Did Fish survive in The Biblical Great Flood?

Question

If there was a flood, then there would be fish in the flood waters right?

And if you say, that all animals died, then why is there fish in our time today?

Noah couldn't have put every species of fish in a aquarium right? Aquariums weren't even invented yet, back then.

Answer 1

there were barrels back then

Answer 2

You have a great point. Here is something else to consider along this line: what happened to the whales? What happened to all the dinosaurs? What about the sharks?

In Genesis 1:2, the words translated void and without form are the Hebrew words tohu and bohu. Tohu means to lie waste, desolation. Bohu means an undistinguishable ruin. This is a total destruction of something that is there.

Isaiah 45:18 says "For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, (tohu) he formed (yatzer - molded [as a potter molds a pot]) it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else."

God says thet He molded the earth to have life on it. Everyone assumes that the flood of Noah was a worldwide flood. But God told Noah that He put a rainbow in the sky to show that He would never destroy the earth by water again. But the Whales and fish were not on the ark, so all life did not perish. Also, in Genesis, it tells us that there were Giants before - and after the flood. (Genesis 6:4) The giants did not die.

So is it possible that the great flood happened before Genesis 1:1? is it also possible that Noah's flood was not the world wide flood that destroyed all life from the earth? Note what Peter has to say about this: "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." (2 Peter 3:5-7)

The earth overflowed with water perished? but the heavens and the earth which is now? Sunds like the first earth persihed by a complete flood, then God formed the second heaven and earth from the desolated earth, and now we wait the third heaven and earth.

Answer 3

Well what has always bothered me is the fact that such a flood should have killed off almost all forms of marine life, especially in the highly fragile interpelagiac zones. Salt water fish would have been forced to stay at their usual depth, which would have become fresh water from the rain. Since the whole flood supposedly lasted for months, this would have been catastrophic for them. Or if they remained in the salt water, they would have died from the increased pressure. All those benthic species which live in shallow to medium depth water would also have died from the pressure. Mussels, octopi, shrimp, crabs, etc. Probably all the coral, too.

Joe bleu, I wouldn't have expected anyone in the 20th century to give an answer like that, much less the 21st. "He he," indeed.

Hey, Ray, "don't ask?" This is Yahoo! Answers. I guess that's the fundy way of responding to questions you can't possibly answer because they utterly contradict the bible. Fish would most definitely NOT be fine, and there are millions of species that would have been completely wiped out by a flood of much less magnitude. And once again we see biblical references where people make up what they want. Genesis said nothing whatsoever about air-breathing. (Or land dwelling, for that matter.) Sorry. Your book is wrong.

Answer 4

They had different classification systems back then. Some of the fish died in the flood because it was an uncontrolled environment and they got hurt from the debris. A lot of the fish lived because they're fish and they were in their basic natural milieu. God didn't command Noah to take the fish. They weren't considered animals back then. They were considered fish.

Answer 5

Remember, God told Noah to take seven (7) clean and two (2) unclean fishes into the Ark. So what was not taken into the ark all died. And when it was time to come out of the Ark so did the clean and unclean fishes came out also. Everything that was on the earth at that time fleas and all came into the Ark. Hey, when we get to heaven lets ask Noah about how he did it. K? Just believe he did it because the Word of God says he did it. They might have had better than Aquariums.

Answer 6

References to a Great Flood have appeared in several different peoples and their literature. The Hebrew account attaches a heavy moral message, as their stories often do.

All of the accounts center around the Black Sea, and considerable evidence has been found that a small strip of land that separated the sea from a lake gave way 8 to 10 thousand years ago allowing millions of tons of water to flood into the lake drowning and submerging hundreds of square miles of land and many unsuspecting communities that lived in the areas around the lake.

Accounts of this unprecedented disaster were handed down from generation to generation and eventually incorporated in folk literature. The story of Noah is perhaps the most well known of these stories.

Answer 7

Sure they probably diden't know of aquariums but it's not to hard to see fish can't live with out water he might have got a whole buntch of big containers of some sort and put them in there. All animals diden't dye.Noah was instucted to bring a certain number of all animals on the huge ark by gods instuction. Most not all but most there where only two of each. Male and female so that when they settled they could be released and produce more animals to once again fill the earth.

Answer 8

i think of this could be a very reliable question. a million. lots of the water from the flood replaced into not from the rain yet fairly from the fountains from under the earths crust 2. maximum aquatic existence did die interior the flood 3. What fish that survived adapted, reproduce and micro developed 4. The oceans are turning out to be saltier so as which ability they have been much less salty 4000 years in the past 5. I stay in a community that has a superb type of brackish water and there is many fish that stay in the two clean and salt water by out the 365 days. EDIT: sounds like your concepts is open. you recognize a flood explains many element your evolution theory cant consisting of: Multilayer coal seams super quantities of fossils No erosion marks interior the geologic layers Polystrate tree fossils super quantities of fossil fuels Grand canyon Tropical fossils interior the Artic circle Mountain tiers Parallel with the oceanic ridge Continental ridge @ Hally people who carry to a literal interpretation of the Bible nevertheless have self belief in organic decision or survival of the fittest or perhaps replace with in a species. it particularly is technological understanding we can see, attempt to notice. yet to assert that something can grant delivery to a minimum of something it is not is a fairy tale and not technological understanding

Answer 9

No. When there is a sudden change in salinity and temperature, fishes will die. Salt water fishes will die in fresh water and fresh water fishes will die in sea water. The flood would float the icebergs away from the polar regions. There would be big changes of temperature everywhere.

Answer 10

The process of getting all of the fish into barrels might be a bit difficult, considering how many live in inhospitable depths that were all but unimaginable in the time of Noah.

Answer 11

He he
Yep the fish and other under water creature would have survived because they thrive in water anyway.
Not sure fish are counted as animals but ok.