I guess I'll ask these two questions again, considering I got almost no answers...?

Question

Hmm...If the earth completely flooded, wouldn't all bodies of water had been connected? Meaning all bodies of water would have become salt-water, that in mind, wouldn't all freshwater animals had died? I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and saying Noah didn't bring them on the Ark..

Oh one more, this was buggin' me too..

There are certain animals that /only/ eat certain animals or plants. Did Noah actually have every kind of soil on the Ark, growing every kind of plant to keep the animals alive? Even weirder, how did he feed those animals that only eat a certain type of OTHER animal. Example, there's a certain bird that only eats a certain type of snail.. Now since both the snail species, and the bird species still exist, I guess they didn't die in the flood. How did he feed the bird if he only brought two of them snails?

No flaming please, serious questions.

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I got three answers. No one answered the question.

Answer 1

none of it is true.

Answer 2

There have been many answers to this query. I do believe the Noah story as a fact knowing that even Jesus Christ believed in it and trusted in the reliabilty of it.

My mind has gone back and forth but I do believe the earth was covered by a flood that covered all the earth as the Bible says. But it could have covered that place of where early man lived since man did not cover the earth at that time. So either premise is possible.

As far as your second question you will be surprised that the Bible is not against evolution. For even the different races of man validate evolution. But you see the changes are only within the specie within themselves and they cannot change from like an early common ancestor of a man and an ape.

The main species that were captured then if the flood only covered one part of the earth would be those that were brought into the ark where man was. The other species could still survive.

We don't have all the history of the earth down pat. If we did we would know the answers.

The Noah story is not really about the type of question you are asking. I wish a scientist were around then to make an accurate assessment of what happened. Nonetheless we are lifet with the anecdotal report of a man and his family that survived the flood. And they were told by a great being to prepare themselves for a flood that no natural man could have known. Who would have instructed them to build and ark over a 120 year period. To build right so it would last for one year. To get the animals and the right food. That too is miraclous. I wish a scientist were there to record that, but it did not happen that way.

The Noah story instead is about how sinful man was. They were evil and vile. It was a very violent generation of mankind. Just as it is today. They never taught their children to live right but instead to live and do and practice evil. The whole world was spiritually corrupted because they did not have God living in their hearts. This is why God had to repopulate the earth again with a family that had the right knowledge of God and righteous lives of peace, and love, and worship before him.

Today we ridcule the story of Noah. But even scientiest are predicting that if man does not do anything to save this planet earth from global warming then this world may destroy us. How ironic than that before it was an act of God that came to both destroy the old earth, and save a family that was living right to repopulate it. Now it is the scientiest of today that are preaching the same thing for us in order of us to save our planet from the extermination of man through the evil of global warming.

Answer 3

If you calculate the height of the flood (covered mountains) it becomes obvious that there was much more fresh water than ocean water. However all marine life would have died including mollusks, crustaceans, corals, sea worms, the algae and the plants. All of the fresh water life would have been doomed as well. Flooding of the order claimed also would have drowned all plant life on the flooded lands, or at least whatever was not washed away as the flood removed all of the topsoil from the planet.
There would have been no olive branches for the Pigeon he let go to return with.

Your point about the food problem is quite right. He would have needed Eucalyptus leaves for the Koalas, ants for the Echinoderms, and many other similar problems would have existed.

Religion, the closer you get; the worse it looks!

Answer 4

The Noah's Ark story would have started as a myth about a flood that happened long ago. As the story spread, it grew until the whole world was flooded rather than one area. Story tellers over time would make subtle changes in the story to make it more exciting or to stress certain points. When the tale was finally written down it would have been completely different from the original and would also have been written based on the morality of the time and the writers. Stories like this should not be taken literally, they are written to teach about and show the power of a god who may or may not exist (there is no proof either way)

Answer 5

Come on

Most primitive societies have bad floods

Hence they get flood stories

The actual question is did someone create all of this, life and the universe or did it all just pop up from some other completely unexplained phenomenon

Science doesn't apply before the big bang, was there something then and if not, how did something come to be?

As far as Bible stories go, they may only be what people much more primitive than modern cave men in afghanistan can understand and pass on

Much of the actual scriptures were edited badly over the years by people with agendas

Even so, get a broader look at it - possibly all the little details are just details

Answer 6

Well my view on all the biblical stories is that they are more than likely based, to some degree in fact. What we must remember is that the world was a lot smaller to the inhabitants of that time, especially when you go back 5000 or 6000 years.
What they would have perceive as the world, would be just a basically small area.
So saying that some person may have built a large boat and taken his livestock on it and floated off in a massive flood, that to them would have appeared to be the end of the world. They may well have lost their whole tribe.
Could "Noah" have come from around this area:
Murat River (Turkish: Murat Nehri). The Murat is the major headstream of the Euphrates. It was also called Arsanias in antiquity. The river rises near Mount Ararat north of Lake Van, in eastern Turkey, and flows westward for 722 km (449 miles) through a mountainous region. There it unites with the Karasu Çayi and forms the Upper Euphrates near Malatya.

"There is only one verse in the Bible which gives us a hint of where we the ark came to rest, "the ark rested...upon the mountains of Ararat." Genesis 8:4. Where is Ararat? The name Ararat is a large area or ancient country covering eastern Turkey, western Iran and western Russia. "The name Ararat, as it appears in the Bible, is the Hebrew equivalent of ...Uratu, ancient country of southwest Asia...mentioned in Assyrian sources from the early 13th century BC" Encyclopaedia Britanica 15th ed. Some have mistakenly assumed the Bible meant the ark came to rest on Mount Ararat (Agri Dagh), but that is not the case. Mount Ararat is 17,000 feet tall, and is a post-Flood volcanic mountain that gained its extra height after the Flood, therefore there is no reason to assume it is a more likely candidate for the resting place of the ark. The ark came to rest in the mountains of the ancient country of Uratu, not Mt. Ararat." link below

And over time his story has grown as the world we know has grown.

Answer 7

If we are to believe that story....well no. Actually there has been scientific discoveries of a much lesser occurance, where only a certain vast area got flooded and the "ark" was actually just a big boat. No, I don't think we should take those Biblical stories literally...they are just stories, made more grandiose over generations of telling them. It's like a story that explains how the rainbow came to be....It was God's symbol that would remind us that God would never again destroy the Earth with flooding....But I'm sure the boxing day Tsunami killed more people than the Biblical story.

Answer 8

I know Noah took extra animals for the purpose of eating, but it doesn't say whether the other animals ate each other or whether God kept them from eating as he did in the story of Daniel and the lion's den. Here's hoping they didn't eat. I'd hate to have to clean up all of that animal poo!!! Of course, we can't say whether some species were eaten and ceased to exist after the flood. As for the water question, while I in no way believe in evolution from one species to another, I don't see why a certain species couldn't evolve over time. Obviously all of the water would have been the same chemical makeup during the flood and would have eventually divided into salt and freshwater locations. Perhaps God allowed some fish to thrive in the freshwater locations and allowed others to thrive in the saltwater locations.

Answer 9

Yes they are all connected, many fresh water came from mountains or elevated places caused by snow and rains(thats what the Bible says) and goes down to the ocean. I'm not a scientist but upon evaporation salt can't be included.

I've seen a fish climbing from salt water to fresh water, it could be a link. When the water subsides a lot of fish were trapped in lakes. And the Bible says GOD caused a great depth on the sea and blasting those salt mines to place all the exess water. So fresh water lakes were first formed before salt ocean after the flood.

Can you point me an animal or bird that can't hibernate? I am ignorant to this kinds.

Answer 10

The reason you are getting no answers is because there is no reasonable explanation for it. None of it actually happened. I asked a similar question a long time ago and I got all sorts of nonsense. Every respectable scientist on the planet agrees that the story of Noah's ark is nothing more than just that, a story.

Answer 11

When we are told in the Bible that Noah built an Ark, we are also told that seven (7) pairs of "Clean" animals and a pair (1) of each "Unclean" animal. That should clear things up a bit, Noah did not take ALL animals on board, only the one's that are listed as clean and unclean. It never says that ALL animals were brought to the ark.

List of unclean / clean animals:
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=531&letter=C

To answer your question about the freshwater and saltwater:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/blacksea/ax/frame.html

Information can and is interpreted according to ones beliefs. However, we all know that science can't lie, all the evidence is right in front of us; we just need to learn to 'see' it.

http://www.desertusa.com/mag06/may/shells.html