How did Noah do it?

Question

There are, on earth, 1,600,000 recorded species to date, and countless unrecorded species( thought to be up to 30,000,000 but I'll discount those to make it easier for Noah).

Many of these species are unique to particular continents.

To achieve what is alleged in the bible:-

Noah travelled to every corner of every continent to gather a pair of each unique species.
He didn't miss the microscopically small species, even without a microscope.
He didn't miss the great carnivores that chased him.
He didn't miss those that kept running away.
He found time to gather at least 32,000,000 individuals (male and female).
He did all this in a relatively very short space of time
He created conditions to allow the survival of them all on a small boa which he also had time to build.
He did all this with limited help

Was he eating spinach or did he come from Planet Krypton?

Or is this biblical story not to be taken literally?

It's a boat, not a boa

Answer 1

forget Noah, there isn't even enough water in the whole solar system to flood the entire surface of the planet.

Answer 2

I have a theory.

You know how the universe is supposed to have been created in seven days (which is, obviously, rubbish)?

Well, what if that means we can that assume all the time references in the bible are to be interpreted along the lines of "once upon a time" not really referring to any specific definition?

If you do that, Noah doesn't have to have done anything yet. He's probably not even been born yet. The biblical Noah story could happen way the future and all he'll need are cells or dna samples and a Clone-A-Tron GLX 6000 to re-stock the planet with.

(Not a Clone-A-Tron GTX 6050. They're gonna be rubbish)

Answer 3

They will tell you that the ‘mommy and daddy’ animals brought their young TO Noah.

Just as amazingly, Noah only had 7 days to load all the animals onboard – there was only one doorway onto the boat – and Noah and his family did it by themselves (all of this, of course, after Noah spent 120-125 years building the wooden craft in the first place).

And, consider this: if the entire earth was under water (and it would have to be miles deep to cover mountain tops), there must have been wicked waves. Imagine surfing all the way around the earth on one wave. Cool ride, eh?

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How can you write (type) all of that and not realize what a twisted, convoluted, and pathetically lame explanation it is?

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Look, why in the world would God go to all the trouble to ‘instruct’ or ‘implant’ or whatever he did to get the animals to walk, swim, fly, crawl, slither, and hop to the boat instead of just moving them there himself? Surely, if he can flood the earth, then he could do that as well.

Answer 4

The fact that anyone could possibly believe this story is seriously embarassing. I am not going to type everything i would like here as some others have said it all. Here are a few links if anyone is interested in even more problems with this story.

Answer 5

Get a Bible it's worse than you think. Of the clean animals he took 7 and of the unclean he took 5. Hows that for overcrowding.

Answer 6

Perhaps he exxaggerated a tad, remember it was written by mere mortal men from their own point of view--they had no real way of knowing if the flood that devastated their towns, killing hundreds was ACTUALLY global or just really big

Answer 7

I think ALL stories have a grain of truth in them.
It could be there was a great flood, and he did build a boat, and he did save his family and his livestock.
Back in pre history that would be a miraculous achievement, and as all stories of legends bits have been added on, until we have the story known today.
And I think that is the most reasonable answer you will find.

As for the Dodo, it was hunted out of existence by humans in 1693

Answer 8

Do the math.

He needed to load 5 per second for several years nonstop to get them all on board.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 9

if it took Noah 100 years that would still be 160,000 species a year (320,000 individuals) Divide 320,000 by 365 and you get 876 life forms to be caught each day.divide 876 by 24 hours you get 35 lifeforms to be caught in an hour.

Noah had to have smoked crack.

Answer 10

Noah had his' families help, three strong ablebodied men and four women as well. It took approximately 60 years to build the ark, and God put instincts into animals in the first place, so he instinctively directed them to the ark. 60 years at building the ark gave the animals far away the time to travel to Noah. If you don't believe why do you ask, just to ridicule? All unbelievers are to become mere dust again and lose out on eternal life you know, or maybe you don't. You choice what to believe, but as for me, I will trust in Jehovah with all my heart, not leaning upon my own understanding, as the wisdom of the world is foolishness with God. Oh, by the way, the world was one huge continent at one time you know, called Pangea(spelling?). Also he only needed two of each KIND of animal, meaning only two dogs not two of each type like two collies, two sheepdogs, just one female and one male, then just two big cats, two elephants, two horses, and so on, not two of every living thing on the planet. All races of men came from just one man and one woman.