How can people be so naive as to believe that all the ants, flies, snakes, worms were rescued by Noah's Ark?

Question

That must have been some humungous ark if it saved all our millions of life forms from the flood!!

Answer 1

It would be naive, but there are steps one can take to numb one's mind to make it believable, and thus, reasonable.

1) Throw all common sense to the wind.
2) Listen only to people like Hovind, baugh, Gish, and Wells; and buy all of their DVD's.
3) Don't listen to anything that questions your warm and fuzzy feeling for biblical inerrency.
4) When arguing online with evolutionists, ignore their statements, and repeat your own, especially if the evolutionist has proven aslready that what you are repeating is wrong.
5) Brush up on the list of different logical fallacies, and strive to utilize all of them.
6) Don't EVER actually research things for yourself with an open mind. It is OK to research things that are pro-evolution, but only to find something that you think you can attack, even if inneffectively. Then, stop reading/listening, and never return to it.
7) Treat science like a prostitute. Use it only for your own furtherance, and denounce it at any other time. If science proves something that concurs with your dogma, then tell everyone with ears what a victory Jesus has won. If science disproves something about the bible, then forward your wildest conspiracy theories.
8) Use lots of untestable, ad hoc hypothesis to allow for any arguments about how what you believe to have happened, according to Genesis, was able to happen.
Example: Noah was able to collect indigenous animals as far away as the then unknown continent of North America because God helped him by performing another miracle (You silly heathen!).
9) If an ancient earth, evolutionist, Noah doubting henchman of Satan manages to provide a powerful rebuttal to your argument, call it an ad hoc hypothesis, even if it isn't.
10) Always try to surround yourself with an audience that is as scientifically illiterate as you are. That way, when the scientist wins the debate, nobody but him or her will know.
Also...
11) Always present simple, short arguments that will require a long, scientific answer. That way, your opponent will run out of time or lose everyone's attention. It will look like you got the better of the exchange.

Always do these things, and always get your information from people who do these things.

Otherwise, you might wind up believing the truth, that...
The earth is billions of years old.
Evolution is a fact.
And Adam and Eve, Noah's Flood, the Story of Jonah, etc are myths.

Now, everyone turn off your brains. It helps to buy "The Clapper."

Oh yeah!!!
Don't know what the bible says when you try to argue it. A lot of biblical literalists [like Sheila] actually think the bible says that animals were only loaded into the Ark in pairs (Some of them were supposedly loaded up in seven pairs, depending on the "kind") and believe the flood only lasted 40 days (the rains lasted 40 days and nights, according to genesis, but the bible says the Flood lasted for almost a year).

It helps to stay naive if you don't have a clue about either argument.

EDIT: 08/18/07
More on people who defend the bible without ever having read it. Just a quick rundown of some more faulty thinking by bible apologists.

The animals on the Ark wouldn't have been babies. That is an ad hoc explanation with no basis in scripture. The bible says in Genesis 7, "2 Take with you seven [a] of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth."

Sexually immature animals don't have mates. They were adults. But even if Noah only brought baby animals with him, there still wouldn't have been enough room on a wooden boat that was "450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high."

There are no less than 3 million different species of animals on earth right now, with estimates in the upper range at 50 million. Half of all life on earth exists inside of rainforests, very far away from Noah. New species are being discovered at a rate of about 15,000 per day. Ninety percent of all life on earth that has ever lived is extinct and went extinct long before there was ever a man called Noah, be Noah man or myth.

Sorry for all of you literalists, but Noah's Flood is just a myth.

El Chistoso

Answer 2

It was a very big vessel; Noah spent 120 years building it. And ants, flies, snakes and worms don't really take up that much room.
And it wasn't necessary to bring every type of horse, for example, on the ark, just one pair of horses, from which came all of the different breeds that we have today.

Answer 3

How can anyone think they know what was on the earth at the time of the flood, other than those who were there?

The truth is, that whatever God wanted put into the ark, would come to Noah and would be saved from the flood...many of the insects could have hitched a ride on the animals, in the food, etc. They had food stores for both the animals and themselves.

It is all speculation in any case if you don't want to believe the Bible. The Bible says what was on board and I believe it. I give God the credit for being able to do exactly what He says.

Answer 4

A question on ice worm: Did they exist when Noah loaded the boat? From reading about them--Science has only just begun to study them completely--Are they the remnant of an evolutionary process. Science does not know. There classification biological is being studied

Answer 5

If you are a truth seeker as your name implies, Jesus said that He is the truth. He makes reference to Noah and the flood in Matthew, chapter 24....also in Luke 17. Yes, there was a worldwide flood. The ark was made by Noah who followed God's directions.

Answer 6

I thought it was just the anscestors of all the ants, snakes and stuff. Or maybe they just evolved post-flood, like other nice creatures.

I really hate the idea that Noah and his family had to resort to incest to repopulate the world. A little icky, don't you think? No wonder we have so many people short on gray matter.

Answer 7

do noah take plant seed and stuff?

ehh why did i get a BOO , i am asking if he take seed too ... if the flood is that high , plants get drown too dun they ?

grass and stuff jus spread their roots and grow as grass again . some by spores.. some by seed .. not all by the seed. so i am wondering ? issit wrong to wonder ?

many insects we know of dun survive that long ...

if it happen , its not how the bible describe ... if its not how the bible describe , then it is not accurate. and since it is accurate , the noah ark must have existed . physics and stuff dun apply then.

Answer 8

No, you have to realize that there were a lot fewer life forms back then - just the ones within walking distance - the size of the world - and the others have evolved since then.

Answer 9

There was two of evry kind of animal saved and put on noahs ark.

Answer 10

I don't think ants and worms take up much space.

And if you're wondering about large animals like elephants and dragons, I will tell you this: God is smart enough to have sent Noah babies, not full grown adults. Clean the Hollywood images out of your head.