different continents, islands and remote places where they came from? Wouldn't they all have been stranded on the mountain for quite some time while 14000 feet of water subsided? It seems like it might have been a little crowded up there. Just curious.
2007-09-13 03:26:43 · 24 answers · asked by Bisley 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ask God.....
lol......
This is a really funny question!
2007-09-13 03:34:13 · answer #1 · answered by ◄☯♫ vanitee of vanitees ♫☯► 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
"God" must have realized that he had a real mess on his hands, and that he really hadn't thought this through very well. The whole boat idea must have seemed pretty nifty at first, but then he must have gotten distracted (perhaps "he" was creating a new galaxy somewhere) and it had slipped from his mind that he had all those animals, and "Noah's" family too, stranded up on the mountain while waiting for almost 3 miles of water to soak in. About the only thing he could do to remedy such an cockamamie and ill-advised scenario was to resort to some kind of a "miracle." And since the workings of miracles cannot be explained in detail (which is a good thing for the Fundies), the answer simply has to be that there was a heavenly miracle......and leave it at that. As the bible shows there is no situation, no matter how dire, how impossible, that cannot be fixed with a good, old-fashioned miracle from the hand of "god."
2007-09-13 03:53:41 · answer #2 · answered by Milepost 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently the continents were not divided like today there were not 5 Continents. Then Mt Ararat was not a mountain then. And when the water started to accumulate they were on the flat ground, so they got back on flat ground somewhere else. More of this, there were so many people, so many animals, and was not a Jurassic park. Plus the scientists fight to say it was there, no it was somewhere else, and many places. They've in the Arc for 40 days, not much change during that time, except the extermination of 2 cities.There must have been different races, it's not said, who knows??? Did they also have plants on board?
2007-09-13 03:45:29 · answer #3 · answered by kayneriend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the prolem with most fundie positions on Noah is that they do not realize that the story is limited by the language of the time.
It is perfectly within reason to read the words used in Noah, and as translated to English, to see a regional flood that landed the boat in the mountain chain where Ararat is found.
Further, there is more archelogical evidence pointint to a similar "q" type document in Mesopotania that ALL the similar tales borrowed from, than there is for a "q" for the gospels. Arch. evidence does point to a massive regional flood of the time around Noah, so the general gist of it works fine.
2007-09-13 03:37:07 · answer #4 · answered by lundstroms2004 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Consider also that the water pressure on most of the surface area would have crushed all plant life and any seeds. This means that the only vegetation that had any hope of survival would be those close to the tree line on very high mountains.
2007-09-13 03:35:44 · answer #5 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The latest theory according to leading creation scientists is before the flood the animals were freeze dried and placed into cellophane packets. Noah threw the packets overboard and they floated to their destinations. Eventually water seeped in to the packets and the animals poofed out. This certainly makes far more sense than evolution which is rejected by all creation scientists.
2007-09-13 03:47:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is an interesting question - and the answer reveals one's belief system.
What I mean is...if we accept a God of miracles who can create the situation of Noah, the flood, and the new "rainbow,"
It is not beyond His power and glory to reposition His animals where He wants them.
How God does what He does is not possible for any of us to answer.
But I trust Him, and look forward to asking Him these questions when I meet Him at the end of my days on earth.
2007-09-13 03:36:05 · answer #7 · answered by TravelDoc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
40 days and 40 nights of rain, the high water pressure and the speed of the water moving would have been enough to kill off most forms of vegetation and of those it didn't kill off would have been ripped out of the ground or simply washed loose with the mud. The proposed flood would have been enough to uproot and kill everything.
What did the animals live on when they left the ark?
2007-09-13 03:34:09 · answer #8 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The animals wouldn't have had much trouble getting around except Australia.That is the one that puzzles me. The earth was squished closer together then and ,as the Bible says ,in the days of Peleg the earth was divided.Either by continental drift or massive immediate changes.They used to have earthquakes back then ,the level we can't imagine.Besides,all the animals were babies when Noah put them on.
2007-09-13 03:34:35 · answer #9 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
So whilst all of this water disappeared what do you think of could ensue next??? perhaps each and every civalization could then lead lower back to a flood tale. yet what evidence of a flood could there be? I mean, it takes 10 ft of vegitation to make one foot of coal. yet there are coal beds 30 ft thick.
2016-12-16 19:03:29 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Magic, er uhm, I mean miracle.
If you're willing to accept a magic flood made from magic water that disappears by magic afterwards, and animals that magically come to the boat, are magically all peaceful, the magic rapid reseading of plant life, the magic seperation of salt water from fresh water so aquatic animals survive...
...what's the big deal with invoking magic one more time?
2007-09-13 03:31:32 · answer #11 · answered by wondermus 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋