Noah's Ark disproven?

Question

On Earth, there are approximately 4,500 species of mammals, 2,500 species of amphibians, and 1,700 species of rodents.

(Not counting birds, fish, or reptiles! If my calculations are correct..)

It would add up to 8,700. But we have to double it for pairs, which would be 17,400 mammals!

So how did Noah fit 17,400 mammals onto his ark?
Wouldn't it sink? How would he provide food for all of them..for 40 days? Where would he get food? How would the penguins survive? How was he able to put 17,400 mammals back into their own natural habitats? By science, it has been proven illogical, various, various, various number of times. The only logical explanation is that it never happened.

JC: No, it isn't a FACT. Maybe you should learn what a fact is.

S.H.: lol. :P
Diane: Thanks, didn't know that. It also made it more questionable! :]

gaucho chizler: Hahah, no. It isn't true JUST because it's in the 'Bible'.

Molly A: Noah's flood? Why would it be Noah's flood, if God did it?

Answer 1

True. The logistcs are mind-boggling.

Furthermore, they claim that dinosaurs were also present on the Ark. Do you know how many tons per day of food that a single average dinosaur would have needed to survive???

Also, you must think about what would have happened after the flood. Lions must hunt their prey, and if there are only two of their prey to hunt, they would have made those species extinct in a couple days. All predatory species must kill their prey to survive. So, after they've killed the 2 remainign individuals of their prey, they would also go extinct.

The whole ark concept is entirely impossible.

Also, if god were intervening the whole time to help with the food, or make the animals hibernate, why could he not have just fixed the whole world in an instant. Why use an ark at all? It's totally redundant.

Answer 2

What was in " THE KNOWN WORLD" at the time of Noah was taken aboard the ark. Two of each wild animals of the area in the middle east, and several each of the cultivated animals. Farm animals like chickens, geese, cows, goats, sheep, ducks? It isn't too far fetched to be able to house a large number of animals in a large raft more than four stories high.
It was not a boat, no sails, no rudder, no keel, flat bottomed, and built to last for less than a year.
It doesn't take a stretch of the imagination to see that a vast number of animals from that area could have been taken to keep from drowning! Not a stretch at all. You just have to use your brains with some common sense ...Okay?
What was flooded was world of civilization in that geographical area about ten thousand years ago. Throughout all of Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Israel and other lands there is archaeological proof of this flood. Geographical proof of the flood as well. This is proof that has come in the nineteenth century making the scholars run to redact their theories and thesis's on the analogy of the flood.
This happened with Kind David as well.
For hundreds of years the great minds of the scholarly sect have taught that 'King David' was not a true figure but an allegorical story.
In 1993 hard evidence was uncovered in an archealogical dig in the mid east that proved King David existed and lived at Jerusalem. Furthermore other digs actually showed the Davidic lineage as recorded in the Old Testament of the Bible.
Again ....the so called scholars went running to their books to redact their theories and such.
Now they say that King David was just a small mark on the landscape, and was a ruler of mud walls etc. Well they gotta say something to wipe some egg off of their faces.... ...right?

Answer 3

First off the Armenian dig site of Noah's ark is looking %99 sure that its Noah's ark. #2 is the finding that Noah apparently used round shaped smaller vessels in tow to hold supplies the remains of two of them are close to the dig as to did the ark contain every known animal and bug? No just the animals of the region in my opinion. But many other peoples have flood hero's also its likely that god had people in other parts of the world doing what Noah did.the bible only speaks of the 8 that went on to become isreal did Noah go to the north pole to round up polar bears? Use common sense here! The ice poles never got covered and why? Ice floats! Surely thousands of ice islands gave refuge to those animals

Answer 4

Science deals and limits it self to the "physical" therefore, the physical super cedes anything "spiritual". God was working out a vast miracle here in reserving both, the human and animal family. God deals with what us humans call the improbable or the impossible - humans are limited to only, the probable and possible. The dimensions of the ark were something like 2 and one half football fields in length, and had 3 full stories to it. The animals were made docile by God to keep them from destroying one another and to herd them into the ark without them running away. "Logic" is what man is limited to ... the impossible is the other side of the coin where God makes the decisive difference.

Answer 5

There are a few flaws in your question...

1. According to the story some animals were taken in not in 2's but in larger numbers ( I.E. clean animals for food) so the total number would be even higher...

2. The animals weren't in the ark for 40 days but much longer... The rain lasted 40 days the flooding much longer...

But alas we are back to the believers all purpose explaination when faced with the illogical in their belief.. "God can do anything."

Answer 6

Logic & religion often don't mix - this is just one example. If a great flood did actually occur, then I would imagine it was localised in one area of the earth. Don't forget that back in the time this event was said to have happened, humans had settled in less areas of the world than they have now, and the people that wrote this part of the bible would have had very limited knowledge of people or places from outside their own region.
Personally, I don't believe in this story, but if you try to rationalise it, it makes more sense to believe it was a local event.

Answer 7

Just another old folktale that got expounded on. Several cultures in that area have a flood survivor story. And there were regional floods that to the people there must have seemed worldwide. And over the decades the story just got bigger and bigger and changed to fit the current culture.

Answer 8

Noah's Ark didn't happen However Noah's flood did happen it just wasn't as big of a catastrophe as the bible makes you think Besides what sound better when your telling a story a village of people and their lifestock dieing except 2 of every type of there animal or all of humanity and all animals xcept 2 of every type of animals.

Answer 9

The legend of Noah is thought to originate from a merchant who traveled by boat with his family to sell his goods down river and got caught up in a heavy downpour that caused a flood.

To say that all the animals today didn't exist in Noahs time just furthur proves evolution. If they didn't exist, where did they come from? And, not all animals in the world could have survived in one area for Noah to put them on one boat. How would you keep the Lions from eating the rabbits? Just a thought.

Answer 10

The Bible sure loves incest stories. First it is the children of Adam and Eve and then it is the children of Noah and his happy floating menagery that we all come from.
Noah flood, Noah Ark and Noah sense explaning it to the true believers.