Impossible to Load Noah's Ark?

[eugenius]

2 of every species on one boat would be a logistical nightmare and would take decades to scour the earth and capture, feed, cultivate the millions of species on earth. Even today, with all the resources at hand, it would be impossible to achieve without many of them dying. How did they know how to nurse the dinosaur babies and what happened when they rapidly grew during the flood?

I'm confused.

 

[eugenius]

I need it, I hope creationists or somebody will fill in the blanks for me.:sorry1:

 

[Valjean]

I wonder how much food and water they'd require, and who'd clean up after them? How, exactly, would they house the beasties that wouldn't thrive in a stall? Subterranian dwelling animals and extremophiles might be a problem. How would they feed the beehives, the termites, spiders and 17-year cicadas?

 

[fantome profane]

Deja vu – all over again.

 

[Valjean]

Yeah, this is one of those subjects that comes up regularly.

 

[whereismynotecard]

It was by God's magic that it was possible.

READ YOUR BIBLE, FOOL! It's all in there...

 

[gnostic]

They were in the ark for a whole year, not just the 40 days (and nights) it rained. They didn't disembark the ark, until a year later.

So what did they all eat during that time?

Not only you need keep animals in their place in the ark, you need the supply of food, which would also take enormous space on the ark. The ark is too small to confine the animals and store the food for a year.

 

[jrbogie]

an eisenhower class aircraft carrier, the largest ever built, could not accomodate two of every species. and if i figure the cubit correctly, the ark would have been about a third that size. but the ark still would have been the biggest vessel to be built for thousands of years to come. not until steam ships began to sail the seas was there a ship that big. why is that? sea commerce has taken place for those thousands of years. merchant mariners would have given anything and did to posses bigger and better ship designs. and what of the world's navies. imagine such a large man o war and how history might have changed at trafalgar. so if noah had the materials and technology, where did it disapear to for the next several mellinia?

 

[Tristesse]

Not to mention, Noah was like 800 years old when he did that.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Not to mention, Noah was like 800 years old when he did that.

Right, but people used to live much longer before trans-fats, aspartame, and depletion of the ozone layer. Also, it was necessary for them to live much longer back then because it took them forever to get anything done, due to lack of automobiles, jackhammers, and caffeine. It's all part of god's master plan.

 

[Valjean]

Maybe they preserved the animals as germ plasm. The hold could have been filled with liquid Nitrogen...

 

[Twilight Hue]

Maybe they preserved the animals as germ plasm. The hold could have been filled with liquid Nitrogen... -Seyorni-

That makes me wonder on how Noah identified and went about acquiring the billions of uni-cellular microscopic life, and as how he would go about quarantine and containment procedures for such. Not to mention all asexual species as well. God could have at least provided Noah with a proper laboratory. -NM-

 

[Valjean]

I'd have been extremely nervous about housing the many species of termites, myself.....

 

[Tristesse]

Right, but people used to live much longer before trans-fats, aspartame, and depletion of the ozone layer. Also, it was necessary for them to live much longer back then because it took them forever to get anything done, due to lack of automobiles, jackhammers, and caffeine. It's all part of god's master plan.

haha sure, but 950 years old? And actually it seems as though we're having more longevity as life progresses.

 

[jtartar]

2 of every species on one boat would be a logistical nightmare and would take decades to scour the earth and capture, feed, cultivate the millions of species on earth. Even today, with all the resources at hand, it would be impossible to achieve without many of them dying. How did they know how to nurse the dinosaur babies and what happened when they rapidly grew during the flood?

I'm confused.

Eugenius,
You seem to be a little confused about details.
Noah's Ark was around 450 ft long, 85 ft wide and 45 ft High. This amounts to over 51/2 million cubic ft of space to store things. There would be plenty of space. This is more space than in most large trains.
Another discrepancy; there were 7 clean animals, and birds, and 2 of the unclean animals, Gen 7:2-4.
The reason for the 7 of the clean was so that Noah could use one for a sacrifice, Gen 8:20.
Only each KIND was taken. You would only have to take 2Dogs, 2horses. 2 elephants etc. Not nearly as many as people might think.
Remember, God helped Noah to load the animals, and Noah had seven days to get them into the Ark, Gen 7:4,10.

 

[RomCat]

It was by the power of God.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Only each KIND was taken. You would only have to take 2Dogs, 2horses. 2 elephants etc. Not nearly as many as people might think.
Remember, God helped Noah to load the animals, and Noah had seven days to get them into the Ark, Gen 7:4,10.

That would have certainly made a huge difference. By the way, were there 2 or 7 giraffes?

 

[painted wolf]

What is a kind?

wa:do

 

[Nepenthe]

What is a kind?

wa:do

All you have to do is refer to Creation Biology or Answers in Genesis for a definition painted wolf:

"Creation scientists use the word baramin to refer to created kinds (Hebrew: bara= created, min= kind)."


I've also always wondered how Noah and his kin dealt with hydrostatic pressure in organisms that have evolved in an environmental niche deep in the ocean. Granted, the creationist could argue that the flood made taking sea life aboard the ark unnecessary, but that still doesn't deal with the changes in salinity and its effect on animals, as well as the varying depths which would impact the environments the organisms had evolved in under specific pressures. maybe they had barometric chambers on board.

Any attempts to incorporate science into the Biblical flood are doomed to failure and must fall back on God's miraculous intervention to support the folk tale.

 

[painted wolf]

Silly me... I suppose when they actually get around to defining their "baramin" rather than just inventing new words I'll know what the heck they are talking about.

wa:do