How is the Existence of Marsupials in Australia consistant with the story of Noah's Ark?

Question

Was what was known of the world at that time was a much smaller place?

Also would Antarctica's Emperor Penguins even survive in the climate of the Ark?

Answer 1

The Biblical flood, if it happened at all, was a very local flood and nothing like the Bible trumps it up to be...
As a matter of fact the entire book is full of trumped up rubbish and stolen folklore from many more ancient cultures..
Here in Aussie we have thousand of animals only indigenous to Aussie, so we missed the boat, but our animals are still here and unique, explain that to me Christians.. ROFLMAO..
Blessed Be... )O(

Answer 2

Marsupials:
This seems to be a moot question. If you believe that the biblical flood was earth-wide, then clearly Noah had marsupials on the ark, and the species has since died out in other areas. Indeed, if I am not mistaken, marsupials exist on 6 continents.

World smaller:
Of course, the author of Genesis was almost certainly unaware of the extent of land masses on earth in his time.

Penguins:
To the best of my knowledge, penguins have no trouble living in warmer climates. Consider the zoos around the world that displayed penguins for years without refrigeration. Also, penguins are primarily water animals. It may be that they can survive extended periods (months) in water, or even that ice floes were present for penguins to rest upon. I see no reason to believe that penguins would require an ark any more than fish.

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 3

First I don't see how emperor penguins would survive on the ark. Maybe the poles weren't affected by the flood as much as mainlands and the penguins are aquatic anyway, much able to survive in the icy waters. Though the flood covered the entire earth, maybe there were terrains high enough for species to survive that length of time until the waters sank which could explain the Galapagos Islands as well.

Answer 4

Excellent point regarding environmental requirements of the penguins. Did the ark have climate control?

Answer 5

All animals went on two by two. When the marsupials boarded, they had carry on luggage whereas all the other animals stowed theirs in the steerage compartment.

The unicorn never made it onto the arc and that is why they don't exist anymore.

Noah had one male and one female of the genus of every animal, (fishes and reptiles were ok in the water) and he has DNA samples of all the different species of animals so he intoduced the DNA into the fertilized egg of the genus parents. So like two deer reproduced and they begot a mule deer, which begot caribou, moose, a white-tailed deer etc.

That's why the arc was mansized, Noah had DNA samples.

Jesus walked on water and healed the sick because he was from another dimension. Sorta' like an alien-no disrespect.

See, God (insert your higher power here, were all praying to the same Woman, ahem) used evolution as a tool for creationism.

Answer 6

Because Noah's Ark was an amazing place where all the animals could go. It has special controlled-climate zones because everything was different during the flood and also god was watching over it. Plus, Noah put the animals in different places after the flood and they all bred incestuously. Duh!

Answer 7

It's not.

If it happened at all, the flood was a localised event, and the story in the Bible is just that ... a story.

Think about it. Two of every creature under the sun? It's just not physically possible for one family to capture that number of animals from every corner of the globe (including the highest mountains and most remote islands) and cram all them into a boat.

Answer 8

Because Noah kept them in his ark

Answer 9

When Noah's Flood occurred, the earth was a much different place. The continents were combined to form "Pangea." All the continents were formed together at one time. For a picture follow this link:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://geology.com/pangea-continental-drift.gif&imgrefurl=http://geology.com/pangea.htm&h=686&w=550&sz=100&tbnid=n2ot6toZphLNiM:&tbnh=139&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpangea%26um%3D1&start=2&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=2

Animals were able to disburse over the land finding a climate comfortable for them. Anything that they were not accustam to, they adapted to. Yes, in some ways this is evolution...but not in the way Darwin described it......it is much more adaptation than evolution.

Answer 10

When the waters lowered he seems to have dropped off a few before returning to the middle east.
Good Luck.