were there dinosaurs on the ark?

Question

Where Dinosaurs on Noah's Ark?

Of course the Bible can't list all of the names of all twenty million animal species, and all of the millions of plants that had to go on the ark so these wouldn't go extinct in the flood.

Genesis 6
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive

is it even feasible that millions of species could fit on a boat? exactly how big was the ark and could it be replicated today. maybe we need to send the query into mythbusters

Answer 1

They all died in the flood

Answer 2

Look at Genesis 6:18-20 about Noah and the animals. It doesn’t say two of every kind except dinosaurs. Now, keep in mind that God brought the animals to Noah; it says they will “come to you”; he didn’t have to go out and catch them.

The response that often comes from the skeptic is: “Noah couldn’t have fit all those animals in the ark—especially the dinosaurs!” And you ask them, “How many animals had to go in the ark?” “I don’t know.” “Well, how big was the ark?” “I don’t know.” So, you don’t believe an unknown amount of animals could have fit in an unknown sized ark?

First of all, Genesis 6:20 states that representative “kinds” of birds and land animals boarded the Ark, not all the different species and subspecies. People say, “But there were over 600 names for dinosaurs.” Yes, and there are many names for the different types of dogs in the world, but all the dog “species” came from only one original dog kind—one Genesis kind. There were many different Ceratopsia dinosaurs that probably all came from one Genesis kind. Many creationists believe there were fewer than 50 distinct kinds of dinosaurs that had to be on the Ark.

Second, you also need to remember that the ark didn’t look like those cutesy Sunday School pictures. The ark was 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet tall (and that’s using a small cubit measurement; it could have been quite a bit larger). The space in the ark would have held more than 520 modern railroad boxcars, and I’ve read that shippers allocate up to 250 sheep per boxcar when moving them by train.

Third, not all dinosaurs were huge, many were as small as chickens. Some scientists say the average size of the dinosaurs was about that of a sheep or a small pony. Very few of the dinosaurs grew to extremely large sizes.

And fourth, who says that he took full grown dinosaurs on board? It would be foolish to fill up space on the ark with the oldest, biggest adults. The largest fossil dinosaur eggs found are about the size of a football. Reptiles often grow till the day they die so the enormous dinosaurs were probably just very old. Would God want to use senior citizens to populate the new world? Their main purpose was to reproduce after the flood. I don’t think there were old adults of any of the animals on the ark. Some scientists, looking at their growth rings, believe the dinosaurs had mid-life growth spurts; it would make sense to take them before that time in their development.

Answer 3

No dinosaurs on Noah's ark because they and the rest of the last prehistoric era were drowned by the 1st worldwide flood already in progress on the first day of creation in the book of Genesis. The 2nd and last flood mentioned in the Bible happened during the modern eras of evolution which modern humans are part of. So the dinosaurs were long extinct when Noah filled his boat with modern species of life on Earth.

Answer 4

No, dinosaurs were extinct long before Noah built his ark!
Also, it is quite feasible for there to have been two of each animal then, because there wasn't such a diversity of creatures before the flood!
There would have been two wild cats, rather than two lions, two tigers, etc.
Animals, like people adapt to their different surroundings. Over time their bodies adapt through the generations.
That is how we have so many different species of each type of animal!

Answer 5

Yes. Who said there were millions of species back then? It didn't say Noah brought 2 of each species. It said 2 of each "kind" Not the same thing. The dinosaurs could have been babies, or even eggs that hadn't hatched yet.
Plants, according to the Bible are not living things.(contrary to what science teaches) If you read the Bible, anytime it mentions a plant, it says, "it grows, and it whithers." not "it lives and dies." The Bible describes a living thing as having "lifeblood" in it. That is what makes it living. Plants do not contain blood. They do not live, they do not die. They grow, and they whither. Animals live, and die, People live and die. Really. Check it out!

Answer 6

WOOT MYTHBUSTERS! Also, how the heck did he travel all the way to the south pole and bring penguins? And I don't understand why it only says animals why not the plants, fungi and some micro organisms they will all die/ drown in the salt water, and if he got two of everything then does that mean Noah was the first to sail to the Americas? Where else is he going to find iguanas? Lastly what the heck did he feed the possibly trillions of creatures? I don't think the lion wants hay and I'm sure that the meat would go bad in a month and how can he get new food by fishing with only 2 worms?

Answer 7

First, I don't think mythbusters would collect every species on the planet. Second, it might only be an allegory. In case it isn't, there are too many ways in which Noah could've built it with God's help.

Answer 8

It says exactly how big the ark was in the Bible, it could be replicated today, but it has been proved mathematically impossible for it to float.

Answer 9

Well there are only about 2 million living species, but they only represent about 2% of the total number of species that have been identified. But even at 2 million, it is completely impossible. So why not take something that is impossible and multiply it by 50.....makes sense to me.

Answer 10

I guess it did if you count alligators. Not all of the dinosaurs became extinct, after all, and you know how the song goes..."There were green alligators and long necked geese, humpty back camels and chimpanzees; cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born, the loveliest of all was the unicorn."

Answer 11

Dinosaurs and man never lived on the earth at the same time. Never. No mater what the creation museum says. the time of man and dinosaur NEVER overlapped.