Noah's Ark?

lol again, i kinda agree with afros idea but still i think it comes down to faith. if you cant believe that Gods power can do anything, ur gonna have problems believing Noah's story as well...

Well I don't believe in the story actually I was just trying to do my best to rationalize it.

Firstly, a chap from MIT once worked out that given the size of the ark mentioned in the bible, there would have been plenty of room for all tyhe animals, and to spare.... if you assume that giving them exercise space was not a priority... as for water needs... hey, theres a flood, and loads of rain... a few bowls and buckets solves that problem... waste disposal... well, let me tell you... they shovelled it over the side.... there was tons of it.... Noah, being a conscientious type of chap, tried to put it all overboard in one place... for forty days and nights he and his sons shovelled.... then the flood was over... the pile of c**p lay there for thousands of years, then Columbus found it and called it America.....

I think the ark thing is real.I mean why would it not had happen?and it could happen again if god wants to rid the world of the evil.Acouse that is half the people right there.JM

Originally posted by big gay kirk
Firstly, a chap from MIT once worked out that given the size of the ark mentioned in the bible, there would have been plenty of room for all tyhe animals, and to spare.... if you assume that giving them exercise space was not a priority... as for water needs... hey, theres a flood, and loads of rain... a few bowls and buckets solves that problem... waste disposal... well, let me tell you... they shovelled it over the side.... there was tons of it.... Noah, being a conscientious type of chap, tried to put it all overboard in one place... for forty days and nights he and his sons shovelled.... then the flood was over... the pile of c**p lay there for thousands of years, then Columbus found it and called it America.....

Originally posted by Jackie Malfoy
and it could happen again if god wants to rid the world of the evil.

no not unless he got the people he wanted

Yeah but if he wanted to rid the world of evil he failed.. if he was just going for those individual people and not all evil then he achieved his goal.

Originally posted by a1hsauce
no not necessarily yerssot eleveninches above kinda, i dont wanna say confirmed because i dont have the actual information in front of me, but in my geography classes we found that during the time in which this great flood occured there was something occuring in other parts of the world as well.... a great rainfall that that also demolition many civilizations in central and south america... not out of existence but hurt them significantly...

i dont think Gods aim had anything to do with it... he punished Noah's people for thier actions and the consequence of it drifted out onto the surrounding parts of the world.

That is true.JM ✅

Originally posted by big gay kirk
Firstly, a chap from MIT once worked out that given the size of the ark mentioned in the bible, there would have been plenty of room for all tyhe animals, and to spare.... if you assume that giving them exercise space was not a priority...

I would love to see that study, because it is unrealistic to believe that you could house the male and the female of over 1.4 million species on a 450 foot long woooden boat along with the hundredsof thousands of pounds of food needed to maintain them.

as for water needs... hey, theres a flood, and loads of rain... a few bowls and buckets solves that problem...

So along with animals they brought a couple of hundred thousand buckets and bowls?

waste disposal... well, let me tell you... they shovelled it over the side

Have you ever been to the zoo or a farm and seen the amount of waste produced by animals in a day, imagine 6-8 people trying to clean up after 2 million animals each day. It ain't gonna happen.

faith

Faith in the mystical works of god? Or suspension of disbelief that on 500 year old man and his family can house, feed and care for millions of animals and then repopulate the earth?

One can have faith, but not to question isblind faith, and blind faith is a scarey thing.

Not to mention that it is impossible to repopulate the world with a breeding population of only two animals of every species.

Hmm...moving to religion.

Over-analyzing the Bible probably isn't the best idea around.

Three points:

-Noah needn't have brought in two of every single species
found today. Remember, he lived closer to Adam than to the
later Biblical figures, to many of the species he brought on could
have gone on to evolve as they spread out over the world.

-He didn't need top bring on water creatures, so that cuts down
on the total number of species.

-God may have lent a helping hand. Keeping the animals alive
without food or intestinal activity.

love how carnivores suddenly went veggie in that story, and think of the amopunt of food they had to store to feed all teh animals

Yeah, the Bible is not the word of God, but of men. I believe in a God, but I don't have a religion. God to me is simply nature/existence as such - the infinity of everything - the great unknown and unknowable of being.

If the Ark story is true, God could have made the animals sleep, or hibernate. Also if the story is true in the garden of Eden, then there were not any meat eaters, so it could be possible that they didn't eat meat at that time on the ark.

so it could be possible that they didn't eat meat at that time on the ark.

If the Ark story is true, God could have made the animals sleep, or hibernate.