how can anyone believe in the ark story?

Question

not possible to build something so big

then think if it was built how did he feed all the animals

this story is not true

your thoughts please

Answer 1

and do you know an elephant needs to eat around 2000lbs of food a day? and he was on the ark for what a year? so he needed 730,000 lbs of food for a year. And thats just for one animal. Ship would have sunk

Answer 2

There was evdience to suggest that a major flood occurred in the black sea area a few thousand years ago, evidence also suggests that people lived below the current sea level and flooding occurred from the Med via the Dardanelles. This was probably the basis of the flood story. Did a guy get in a boat with all the animals, erm maybe not unless he were a fisherman with a couple of hens sheep etc. This probably laid the foundation and as they thought the Eath was flat during that period they probably did thing the whole world was flooded.

Amazing how things can be construed when viewed from a slightly different point of view.

Answer 3

I believe the story is true! It took Noah 100 years to build the ark and God gave him exact instructions on how to build it. God has the wisdom to know how big to build it so it would withstand the torrential rain and the deeps bursting open and shooting up water from underground.

As to the feeding of the animals. It could well be that all the animals were young, so didn't need that much food and space. It could also well be that God put them into hibernation during the time they were in the Ark.

Why do we find fossils all over the world? If creatures died a natural death above ground they would either decay or be eaten by scavengers. However the Flood gives a perfect explanation for the fossils. These were animals that had to have sediment layers put on them quickly with great pressure (the water pressure above the sediment layers) for them to retain their shape.

Also in many tribal stories all over the world is the history of a worldwide flood handed down for generations. Coincidence?

Answer 4

There have been many great floods in history, and the biblical one or the one referred to in the epic of Gilgamesh amongst others. The present theories are the Mediterranean spilling into the black sea and a massive local flood of unprecedented dimensions. As to an arc, this again would have to be taken in a historical context given the ability and technology of the time. Of course they could not have gotten a pair of Kangaroo's from Australia to the middle east;. I think this became the ultimate urban legend, the entire arc story. On a smaller scale its entirely possible that someone did manage to save their entire heard of cattle and a heard of cattle floating by in the year long long ago, would have been impressive. However the idea is faith does not need to be supported by fact or it would no longer be faith, it then becomes science. Good question i got to do a bit of reading have not in some time on ancient history and myths.

Answer 5

It is the story of Gilgamesh and it probably comes from large but localised flood. some evidence has arisen that suggest the Black Sea was much lower in biblical times as may have been flooded from the Mediterranean when a natural dam burst. It was probably something like this when a tribal leader got news that the sea was rising rapidly he built some sort of boat or raft and saved some animals

Answer 6

Only fundamentalist Christians believe that every word of the Bible is literal truth - many accept (many of) the stories as parables and metaphors.

Given this, and if the story is so unbelievable then this particular one would, in your opinion, be such a metaphor, then what does the ark & all the animals symbolise? Of course, it could just be a convenient plot device to explain the existence of animals in the world today, after the cleansing of the flood. After all, the story has to make some kind of sense.

Answer 7

It took 4 men 120 years to build. Size is not an issue.
It equals over 500 railroad box cars in volume.
How easy is it to build auto feeding chutes, thus you store food and feed with no actions.
Only one of each species was carried, so one genetically rich dog is father to all variations we now see.
Interestingly every royal family in Europe in the Tenth century traced their family line to Noah, and they had no Bibles to copy.
In addition over 200 tribes have a flood tradition as part of their History.
Finally if the whole world was flooded you would find millions of fossils, in thousands of feet of mud.. now solid rock..
Guess what - rocks are full of complete fossils, and its not a process we see today. Animals decay far too fast to get fossilised complete.

Answer 8

You've already made up your mind, since your question is more like an opinion. So, why would you want to hear others thoughts on it?

But for as much rain we've had today, I'm ready to build an ark! Melody's Ark -- it has a certain ring to it. Want to join me in my ark???? LOL!

Answer 9

if you believe it, you can believe it was all miracles all the way. Did you know the Mormons believe the Ark carried animals and people from the America to Ararat?

Answer 10

If you can believe Journey had a video game, then you can believe the Ark story.

Answer 11

no matter how stupid a story is, someone will believe it.

the wallabies had to travel from australia to get on the ark in palestine. wallabies eat only eucalyptus leaves, so they would have had to bring eucalyptus trees with them.

and only noah and his three sons survived. shem gave rise to all the semitic tribes, cham to all the black africans, japhet to european caucasians. (did you notice that noah's three sons are all different skincolours)?

there was no ancestor for the chinese. this is why nobody lives in china, even today.