Post flood questions

[mushy366]

Lets not question if creation is true or not, i dont read the bible so im not sure what the answers to these questions are.

1) How was it possible for noah to make the ark himself?
2) How did he get all the animals in one place?
3) Where did all the water come from / go to
4) How come no kangaroos are native to asia?

 

[Jro]

1) He's very industrious.
2) Carrots and sticks.
3) Neptune. No, really.
4) MAGIC!

 

[keith99]

If I recall the flood story correctly Noah did not build the Ark alone and had decades to accomplish the task.

It helps to actually read a story before trying to pick it apart.

 

[AV1611VET]

Lets not question if creation is true or not, i dont read the bible so im not sure what the answers to these questions are.

1) How was it possible for noah to make the ark himself?
2) How did he get all the animals in one place?
3) Where did all the water come from / go to
4) How come no kangaroos are native to asia?

If you don't read the Bible, how is it you just happen to ask questions that aren't expressly covered in Writing?

1. He had help. He had three sons, and 120 years with which to build it. In addition, I believe he also had the Holy Spirit to help him, as did Bezaleel when he helped build the Tabernacle in the Wilderness.

Exodus 31:2 See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
Exodus 31:3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

2. He didn't. God brought them, Himself. Either that, or the representative heads of the entire animal kingdom (called 'kinds') were present in the area; and Noah simply ordered them aboard. (Remember: Adam was to have dominion over the animals.)

Genesis 1:26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

3. The water came from two sources:

1. subterranean
2. outer space

Genesis 8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

... and it went to an undisclosed location back in space.

4. I don't know.

 

[dad]

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4) How come no kangaroos are native to asia?

Why not?

 

[Crusader05]

These are just a few of the many flood/noah's arc questions we could ask.

- How did Noah feed all the animals?
- Where did the animal's waste go?
- When the flood waters magically went away what did the animals eat since all plant life had been covered by salt water for months?
- Why don't we see a mass extinction of sea life at the time of the flood since all aquatic life would have been wiped out due to the mixing of fresh and salt water?
- Why didn't god just strike all the wicked humans dead (sparing Noah and his family of course) instead of all this arc building, animal gathering, flooding etc?

 

[CaliforniaSun]

Lets not question if creation is true or not, i dont read the bible so im not sure what the answers to these questions are.

1) How was it possible for noah to make the ark himself?
2) How did he get all the animals in one place?
3) Where did all the water come from / go to
4) How come no kangaroos are native to asia?

God moves in mysterious ways.

 

[AV1611VET]

When we see how God handled similar situations in the Bible, we can see how He orchestrated the Flood, eh?

These are just a few of the many flood/noah's arc questions we could ask.
- How did Noah feed all the animals?
- Where did the animal's waste go?
- When the flood waters magically went away what did the animals eat since all plant life had been covered by salt water for months?
- Why don't we see a mass extinction of sea life at the time of the flood since all aquatic life would have been wiped out due to the mixing of fresh and salt water?
- Why didn't god just strike all the wicked humans dead (sparing Noah and his family of course) instead of all this arc building, animal gathering, flooding etc?

1. God could have fed the animals like He did with the widow of Zarephath.

1 Kings 17:14 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.

In addition, we can take a clue from the story of how Jesus fed 5000 with a 2-piece fish dinner.

Thus, Noah would have had to bring just a handful of provender for the animals.

2. I don't know where the animals' waste went. They say that playing certain sounds will break fecal matter down; and if this is the case, then fecal matter could have been dissolved by divine intervention.

3. The Flood waters didn't 'magically' go away, they 'miraculously' went away; but that aside -- when Noah sent the dove out, it came back with an olive branch in its mouth. This, to me, was an indication that God 'hypergrew' the flora after the Flood, in much the same way as He hypergrew the Garden of Eden -- (which I don't want to get into here).

4. There could have been pockets of fresh water and sea water that served as individual biospheres for the aquatic animals during the Flood.

5. Had God 'struck everyone dead' on the spot, then there would have been no chance for anyone to repent and cry out for mercy. Doing it the way He did, God gave them a chance to get saved before they drowned. As the saying goes: There are no atheists in foxholes.

 

[dad]

These are just a few of the many flood/noah's arc questions we could ask.

- How did Noah feed all the animals?

Fast plant growth in that time and state.

- Where did the animal's waste go?

God was smart enough to include a flusher in His design?

- When the flood waters magically went away what did the animals eat since all plant life had been covered by salt water for months?

Fast growing plant food.

- Why don't we see a mass extinction of sea life at the time of the flood since all aquatic life would have been wiped out due to the mixing of fresh and salt water?

With hyper adaptive ability that is no sweat, even if all the sale really was there.

- Why didn't god just strike all the wicked humans dead (sparing Noah and his family of course) instead of all this arc building, animal gathering, flooding etc?

Animals were probably also infected. Also, the world needed to start changing, for the coming new state!?

 

[Crusader05]

As the saying goes: There are no atheists in foxholes.

Good thing that's just a saying, since I am in the military and an atheist.

 

[Lion Hearted Man]

New question:

What about human obligate intracellular parasites? Here's a short of list of things that need humans to stay alive and reproduce:

viruses:
smallpox, polio, EBV, herpes simplex, VZV, CMV, RSV, rhinovirus, influenza, parainfluenza, rotavirus, hantavirus, coronavirus, enterovirus, echovirus, HPV, HAV, HBV, HCV, HDV, HEV, HFV, HGV, measles, mumps, rubella, norwalk.

some bacteria that need humans to reproduce:
chlamydia, rickettsia, mycobacterium leprae (leprosy)

I excluded any viruses or parasites that may have vectors or infect other hosts (ticks, fleas, other primates). But these would also have to be on the ark, but not necessarily in humans:

viruses:
west nile, SIV/HIV, ebola, yellow fever, dengue fever, marburg, rabies, EEEV, WEEV, VEEV, bornavirus

parasites:
malaria

Now we'd also have to have like some sort of stagnant pool of water for all of the other single-celled organisms to live in that don't need a host. The disruption in chemistry of the bodies of waters would not likely be ideal and would probably kill them. God only spared the fishes, so we'd have to have a nice bucket of water full of the microorganisms. But that's pretty easy.

But basically, Noah and his family would have to have all of the human diseases. They must have been really sick. They all would have had failing livers, the worst upper respiratory infections ever, and tons of diarrhea. Also, the leprosy would suck, and I bet they'd all catch it from each other anyway. Poor Noah's wife would be at risk for cervical cancer should either she or Noah be the unlucky one with HPV. Then again, with the amount of incest that occurred after landing the boat, they probably all got chlamydia, HPV, and herpes simplex.

I didn't even mention the rest of the viruses and bacteria that infect the myriad other animals. We've just talked about a few human diseases. Each animal would have to have all of the infectious diseases that require them as a host.

Doesn't the flood story make much more sense if you had no idea about the germ theory of disease?

 

[Hespera]

Good thing that's just a saying, since I am in the military and an atheist.

i bet its actually the other way around.

In a firefight, does anyone say,

Glory be Im about to receive eternal life!

maybe some of the talibans say their version of it.

 

[AV1611VET]

Glory be Im about to receive eternal life!

Why would I say I'm about to receive eternal life? I already have it.

John 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

 

[Skaloop]

4. There could have been pockets of fresh water and sea water that served as individual biospheres for the aquatic animals during the Flood.

QV: 83

 

[Gracchus]

As the saying goes: There are no atheists in foxholes.

I have known a few soldiers who assured me that they didn't become atheists until they got into foxholes.

 

[AV1611VET]

QV: 83

Mamma mia! That's some piece of exegesis!

I'd have to give you an A+ for that, eh?

Good job!

 

[AV1611VET]

I have known a few soldiers who assured me that they didn't become atheists until they got into foxholes.

Well, as the saying goes: There's always 10%.

 

[Lion Hearted Man]

AV - answer my post

 

[AV1611VET]

AV - answer my post

Are you kidding me?

Do I look like I have a degree in virology?

 

[Lion Hearted Man]

Are you kidding me?

Do I look like I have a degree in virology?

You don't have degrees in geology, chemistry, or physics but you're willing to jump into those fields and mess up the place. My point is simple - infectious diseases had to be on the Ark. How would you account for them?