would you accept this speculation that they were put to a long sleep?

Question

I am referring to Noah, his family and the rest of all the animals that were pact in his Ark during the flood. It would be very impossible for them animals including Noah, to survive the eight months ordeal seclussion in the Ark and not experiencing health hazzard. When God decided to create a woman in the Garden of Eden, He put Adam into deep sleep. I believe that was what God did also to Noah, his family and rest of animals in the Ark. In that way all creatures there didn't need to heed to the call of nature; therefore the Ark remained tidied and clean. The whole concept of the Ark represented the jewel box. In the Ark, were the selected creation of God that would give offsprings for the new world after the flood. These animals were selected by Angels before hand while Noah was building the Ark. Also from Noah's offspring who is Shem, from his line will come the covenant line like Abraham, leading down to David and down to Jesus. the Messiah. What do you think of that?

Answer 1

There is nothing in the bible to back up your fantasy.

Answer 2

You claim an omnipotent god. He could have done anything.

He still needs to perform a whole battery of other miracles:

He has to get two/seven/fourteen of all the animals to Noah in the Middle East. Just being there would kill many species.

He has to fit them all into the ark. Either it is 'kinds' and they have to evolve like mad after getting off the ark, or is is species, in which case there is not enough room.

3.5 x the volume of water has to appear from somewhere. The energy released by the condensation and cooling of this much water would raise the ocean temperature by about 70 C or 125 F

The ark would have been the largest ever all wood ocean vessel. All naval engineers know that it would have broken up on the first ocean swell.

All that water has to disappear again.

After getting off the ark there would be no vegetation left after being under 2+ miles of water for about a year. So all the herbivores die out.

Even if god provides food for them, they all die out as the carnivores make a species extinct each time they get hungry. the carnivores become extinct when they run out of herbivores to eat.

While surviving extinction due to the food chain only having two of each species they must migrate back to their local environments, leaving no traces. Especially a problem for those animals going to South America and Australia.

Finally god changes the laws of physics so that different wavelengths of light refract by different angles.


Now, an omnipotent god could do all these things. But it would be a lot simpler to just poof all the bad people (ie everyone except Noah and his family) out of existence.

Also, god is an incredibly bad judge of character, especially for an omnicognizant being, because as soon as the flood is over what is Noah doing? Getting drunk and exposing himself to his sons.

Answer 3

Well, now the whole story makes perfect sense. You must be right. It probably got edited out by mistake. Write the pope and let him in on this epiphany.

Answer 4

I think it is reading more into the story than was ever there, and that you should answer a question about dinosaurs
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071021182553AACIC7C&r=w&pa=FZptHWf.BGRX3OFMiDdVUvP1lzfxf8nE7LHaOI8ezmuCpDZYmg--&paid=answered#LJJEGzbAVHPaDNMa5_sK

Answer 5

I have no idea