The detail of a similar question asked by larrisa was deliberately ignored by the fundies who refuse to admit that fresh water fish cannot live in salt water. We all know that salt water fish survive in the sea.
Why do they ignore inconvenient truths?
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...
For some reason this question ended up in the zoology section so I have reposted in R & S.
2007-10-16 08:47:36 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Plants too! With owning a tropical fish store, I KNOW that most plants will die when totally submerged in seawater or even freshwater for a year. The soil would also be contaminated by the sea water. When the water dried up, why didn't the lakes remain salty or the oceans remain fresh?
2007-10-16 08:52:38 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
The problem is more about the fish that lived in salt water.
Since to cover the Earth, including the highest mountains would take about 3.5 times the volume of the current oceans, you would actually be in brackish water rather than salt. So all the fish that need that higher level of salt would have problems.
There are so many problems with this story, this is just one. The 'answer' I have seen is that pockets of salt water and pockets of fresh remained. And somehow they stayed that way and did not mix for over a year.
The ones that really get me is how the plant life survived under >2 mile of salty water for over a year, and what did the carnivores eat after they got off the ark and got back into the wild. There would have been a mass extinction as the herbivores starved because all the plants had died. Even if by some miracle the plants survived, then they would become extinct one species every few days as the carnivores got hungry.
2007-10-16 09:00:02 · answer #2 · answered by Simon T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The standard answer is that the salinity of the world's oceans before the Flood (not oceans at the time) was different, such that both salt-water and fresh-water fish were able to live just fine. The turbidity of the Flood was such that there was a segregation of salinity and non-salinity dependent fish depending on where the Fountains of the Deep were located. Once the waters receded, the species self-segregated (fresh water fish died off in the now over-salted oceans, salt-water fish died off in now under-salted inland areas and rivers). The salmon is an example of a species that can live in both environments. Other species may have lost that ability through microevolution.
2016-05-22 23:33:39 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He didn't need to keep fish on his boat except to feed himself and the animals and he is in a "boat" on the ocean - and by biblical standards it states collect two of every animal of the land and bird of the sky.
Sort of weird that almost every civilization has an account of the "Great flood" about the same time the "bible" states of Noah. What, did God call each group of people and tell them?
Oh that's right - by biblical accounts there were only those in the middle east at that time.
Another inconsistancy to the Christian bible.....Dee dee deeeee !
2007-10-16 09:01:07 · answer #4 · answered by Karma of the Poodle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no answer.... but an add-on to above.
How did the snakes survive? They eat rodents, but there were only 2 of each kind of rodent....
And yes, Noah's ark is a story made up by idiots. That ignore inconvienient truths. Luckily, barely any English Christians take the Bible literally.
2007-10-16 08:54:12 · answer #5 · answered by cchaos01 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I believe that all fish lived in fresh water until one day a perch ate the worm of knowledge that his fish god told him expressly not to eat. Life for fish has been going down hill ever since.
After that he cast out the fish about the planet after they tried to make a fish ladder to get closer to god.
2007-10-16 14:05:12 · answer #6 · answered by Gawdless Heathen 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wouldn't that much water have diluted the oceans and caused the level of salt to be low enough to kill many of the ocean creatures as well?
Yeah Earl, but the oceans would have flooded into the fresh bodies of water early on and killed those too.
2007-10-16 08:57:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have always been curious about where the Blue Whales were kept and why, since they can live in salt and fresh water.
2007-10-16 09:00:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How did he manage to get the kangaroos from Australia and the Tasmanian devil. also the marsupial wolf and the kiwi from New Zealand
2007-10-16 11:18:30 · answer #9 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure I get it. The freshwater fish were already living in freshwater lakes, so why would they need to go on the Ark?
Personally, I think the saltwater fish would have had more of a problem. 40 days and 40 nights of rain would have severely diluted the seawater.
2007-10-16 08:54:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋