Creationist; Noah's Ark?

Question

How did the animals get to Australia?

Answer 1

Look up continental drift.

Answer 2

Noah's Ark is a weird biblical story because to me it is the least historically accurate story in the bible. However most people who I have heard of and have done research on this believe that the whole world wasn't flooded.All that was flooded was just a comparatively small area of land around the Indian ocean that went over reached as far as the Mediterranean in the north, the Antarctic in the south and South America in the west. Australia would be hit in the east but, it is a big continent so some animals would be living still.

Answer 3

Atrahasis same story retold as Noah's Ark - based on the Sumarian story. It was considered a myth in the Sumarian days.

Plagiarized by the OT. There are some overlaps and parallels to the creation story in Enuma Elish. There is an account of the divine hierarchy and the creation of human beings to work for the gods. Also as in Enuma Elish, human beings are made in part from a sacrificed god. In “Atrahasis,” the flood is only one of the gods’ attempts to decrease the size of the human population. At first, human beings are immortal, and as they reproduce, they add to the population. When they become too many and too noisy, the gods send some catastrophe to decimate the population. The gods send wasting illness, two drought-induced famines, another plague, and another famine. Each time the gods send a calamity, Atrahasis asks Enki/Ea to tell him how to save humanity. . Each time, Enki replies with a strategy to bring an end to the calamity. . Finally, the gods agree to send a great flood to wipe humanity from the earth. Atrahasis’s preparation for the flood and the flood itself are very close to the Ut-napishtim story. Here, the command to save the animals is muted, and there is an emphasis on Atrahasis’s anxiety. Nintu/Mami, who created humanity, mourns them, and the gods suffer from the lack of sacrifices. Once the flood is over, Nintu blames Anu and Enlil for the disaster and, like Ishtar, promises to remember. At the end of the story, Atrahasis and his wife do not gain immortality but, instead, retain immortality. All other human beings, however, are now subject to a limited lifespan and the other means the gods devise to limit the human population. . The biblical story of Noah stands apart not least in involving only one god, not a multitude.
A. The story of Noah has some obvious parallels to the stories of Ut-napishtim and Atrahasis.
1. Each includes a divine decision to send a flood, with one person selected to save his family and all animals.
2. The building of the boat, the gathering of animals, the flood, the release of birds, and the sacrifice appear in all three stories.
3. The parallels suggest reliance on a tradition common to the entire eastern Mediterranean.

Little more than you asked for....

Answer 4

Ge:10:25: And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

How does that fit into the 5000-year-old earth when Pangea broke up long before?
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Answer 5

Noah's flood was prior to the continents splitting.

The flood was in Genesis 6.
Continental drift is recorded in Genesis 10:25

Answer 6

When the Lord released the waters from the deep, the pressure moved the lands apart and the water filled in the low areas ( the oceans). So we now have continents.

Answer 7

all land on earth was once all joined together, but everything on earth is constantly moving, so is the land. so when australia broke away from everything else other animals would be inhabiting it - that's also why australia is the only country left with marsupials, cause they died out when other mammals came along

Answer 8

Continental drift takes millions of years. So that's out. Except for those willing to admit to an old earth. Then creation is out.

Answer 9

How did the people get there? And the plants?

It happened thousands upon thousands of years ago...so what the first answerer said.

Answer 10

Noticing how individual the animals are there, the answer should be obvious. They took the next ferry.

Answer 11

By land bridges that existed hundreds of thousands of years ago.