Did Noah take every two of every fish onto the ark? If he didn't, how did all the fish survive?

Question

This question pitched especially at anyone who knows the least thing about fishes' senstivity to salinity.

Jim, wouldn't forty days of torrential rain churning the oceans mix the two too quickly to keep the two separated? Are the deep ocean trenches saltier than the near surface? And wouldn't at least some of the fish have to swim through the wrong type of water to get to the "safe" zone, even temporarily?
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Answer 1

Salt water fish are really finicky about their water conditions. Dumping a whole heap of muddy fresh water into their habitat would not have made them too happy.

I just love the number of people who failed to read your question properly.


EDIT: For 10 years I lived at the mouth of a moderately sized salt water river. Every year during summer storms, the river would flood and massive amounts of muddy fresh water filled with top soil would rush down the river.
For weeks the fishing would be terrible. The fish that you did manage to catch were sluggish and sick, and there were also a lot of dead fish washing up. Some species would disappear for months.
And this was just from a pathetic little 6 hour storm or two. The result of flooding the ocean with enough muddy fresh water to cover even the Himalayas would be catastrophic.
Its not just a matter of the influx of fresh water, but the issue of pollution (dirt, sediment etc).

Answer 2

they did no longer could desire to be interior the ark; their ecosystem became no longer destroyed. Noah took all land-living, air-respiratory creatures, no longer the sea-dwellers. As for the salt water/clean water fish: one million. in keeping with threat there have been super factors the place the two waters did no longer combination. Even the sea has layers of water that are extra or much less salty. it incredibly is an element interior the effectiveness of sonar. 2. the sea is persevering with to get extra salty. it incredibly is functional to assume it became much less salty then. So what approximately salt-water fish? in keeping with threat of their unique genes became the skill to evolve to different tiers of salinity; because of fact the a while surpassed with them living in a growing to be form of salty oceans, they lost the skill to stay in clean water. As for a prior answerer's allegation that no longer adequate mothers and fathers survived the flood to repopulate the earth: bear in mind that the unique creation had no genetic defects. Adam and Eve's infants married one yet another, and it became ok. The animals on the are weren't long after creation and can have had few genetic mutations; for this reason, their offspring ought to interbreed for many generations earlier close genes became a topic. additionally they had lots form of their genes. seem at canines: those many breeds got here from probable 2 unique canines on the ark. If we've been to construct a farm and placed 2 (woman and male) of each breed on it and enable them to interbreed at will, we'd at last arise with a medium-sized mutt. each and each breed has lost the tips mandatory to offer the different breeds. the two on the ark might have had all that tips.

Answer 3

Thought provoking question buddy,not an easy answer in view of what we know.Apparently there was no rain until then,therefore no freshwater ponds,lakes,etc.,just a due over the land providing enough moisture and water and a canopy of water over the earth that fell that making up the earthly flood. And as long as that canopy was over the earth there was no harsh sunlight or intense heat. Considering the time it took for the waters to subside it is reasonable to believe it was over a year in the ark .Any sense in this for you?Edit-- Badong at the end has a point in maybe no ocean and no fish,however creation pertaining to earth was supposed to end before Garden of Eden.Then man and woman were put in the prepared Paradise why not fish in the seas and freshwater.

Answer 4

The water that fell from the heavens was not salty as far as I know. In fact the authors of the book "Noah's Flood," mentioned something in a video about how the Dead Sea is poisoned because sea water is trapped on the bottom or something like that. You should be able to look up Dead Sea and find out. So, there were pockets of fresh water around during the flood. When I saw the first part of you question, I started to scratch my head and say, "What?" I'm glad you clarified your question.

Edit:
Jim Pettis said something about salt water being heavier, so I guess there was a barrier sufficient for both types to live.

Answer 5

I'm guessing that perhaps the torrential rains on land probably carried plenty of minerals into the rising seas. Just a guess; I'm not an expert, but I'm sure there's an explanation.

EDIT: Wow, not many people got your point. I also didn't think about the fact that you need freshwater AND saltwater -- but aren't there ways (currents, deep trenches) that saltwater and freshwater might be able to stay separated? I'm not really qualified to understand this.

EDIT 2: ...and read the answer Jim Petis gave. I knew there had to be ways that salt and fresh would stay separated.

Answer 6

where did you get the idea that there were oceans prior to the flood? I find no mention of fish in the bible prior to the flood. This is not to say they did not exist of course, but I am of the opinion that the flood did cause a drastic change to the total surface conditions of this planet know as the earth.

A "NO"s view is that the water we now see as the oceans was prior to the flood contained in gas form in clouds around the earth and became oceans as a result of the flood.

Answer 7

The rain water mixed with the salt water will become salt water. Noah didn't have to take fish or any other sea life on the Ark.

Answer 8

Pst ...

Grace unto you, and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Pst: it's "allegory", not something to take literal,
but perhaps written for our learning: Rom 15:4.

here's some nifty info on Noah's Ark story:
- only thing common to man is legend of flood: science,
- ww flood never happened ww: science
- God and LORD gave contrary commandments
- Noah did both Grace + LAW, and ended dead:
died and received not the promise: Hebrews 11.

MAIN POINT: Grace is sufficient (no law req'd)

Your point is also good, salty water doesn't give life.
Right now it's giving the gulf Hurrican Dean is Mean.

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 9

LMAO!!!!! Ah, good twist. I haven't seen one like this in a while. You make a good point... most likely it would be more salt water than fresh if the entire world were flooded. Fresh water fish could not survive.

At first I was going to skip this question. I've seen some that start off like this, that make me click on them and then find out they are truly lame questions. I'm glad I didn't skip it.

Answer 10

Either Noah took all the salt water fish onto the ark and the flood was fresh water, or the other way around. The other option is that God, in his omnipotence, created barriers between the salt and fresh water areas of the flood. I'm thinking invisible force-fields. That's definately how I would have done it.