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Noahs Ark

darkendless

darkendless

Guardian of Asgaard
zodiacseven said:
How did they fit a pair of Brontosaurus on the ark? Where do these lifeforms fit into the Bible? I've not seen a reference.
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How would they get lions and zebras together? How would they make the ark big enough for all those animals? What would they eat and drink? Where would they fit their supplies? Why, as a student having done geology, can i not see evidence for the great flood in the soil profiles taken from the mountain ranges surrounding my city?

The story is not literal.
 
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zodiacseven

New Member
darkendless said:
How would they get lions and zebras together? How would they make the ark big enough for all those animals? What would they eat and drink? Where would they fit their supplies? Why, as a student having done geology, can i not see evidence for the great flood in the soil profiles taken from the mountain ranges surrounding my city?

The story is not literal.
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That's sounds reasonable although there are many who would disagree, especially those who are spending their lives attempting to pinpoint the exact resting place for the ark. I guess my point is that there seems to be a large portion of the Earths history missing from the Bible. Mainly the periods when dinosaurs lived and the other "cavemen" types of lifeforms , etc. . How is this reconciled in the religious realm?
 
Kilgore Trout

Kilgore Trout

Misanthropic Humanist
Apparently, some say that stories, such as Noah's ark are not to be taken literally. Of course, if the events didn't really happen, then I don't really understand what's to be learned by stories, since they don't represent anything that actually happened.
 
darkendless

darkendless

Guardian of Asgaard
zodiacseven said:
That's sounds reasonable although there are many who would disagree, especially those who are spending their lives attempting to pinpoint the exact resting place for the ark. I guess my point is that there seems to be a large portion of the Earths history missing from the Bible. Mainly the periods when dinosaurs lived and the other "cavemen" types of lifeforms , etc. . How is this reconciled in the religious realm?
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Those people are stupid enough to let the bible dictate their reasoning. Those people should be smart enough to know the world doesn't have the structural capacity to hold that much water.
 
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Arlanbb

Active Member
The bible people seem to forget that for 120 years Noah was trying to convert the millions of people on earth to believe in GOD and join him in the Ark. What would have happen if 50,000 people did repent and wanted to join Noah. Where would Noah have put them all? A bigger ark?? When you carry the story out to a proper conclusion it falls apart.
 
Breathe

Breathe

Hostis humani generis
I heard somewhere that the great flood is due to rapidly rising sea levels brought about by the end of the last ice age, that was kept alive as a story by early humankind. That, or it could have been some regional flood that gained more and more awesomeness as generations went on. These are two proposals that I've heard.

Although, according to various alien conspiricists (I think Raëlianism thinks the same, too) Noah's ark was in fact, a UFO, and it wasn't two of every living animal, but DNA extracts! ... That sounds kinda cool, actually. :D
 
9-10ths_Penguin

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
zodiacseven said:
How did they fit a pair of Brontosaurus on the ark? Where do these lifeforms fit into the Bible? I've not seen a reference.
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They didn't get them onto the Ark. They all died in the flood; that's why they're now extinct. Simple enough explanation, really.

However, I think it's kinda silly to ask for rational explanations for the niddly details like this when you're taking the flood story as given in the first place. We've already had to assume that "Goddidit" is a reasonable explanation to account for the idea of a global flood in the first place, so it's not like we can exclude it as an explanation for the details like how big animals got onto the Ark or how Noah managed to feed them all for a year. The same explanation works: Goddidit.
 
Halcyon

Halcyon

Lord of the Badgers
darkendless said:
How would they get lions and zebras together? How would they make the ark big enough for all those animals? What would they eat and drink? Where would they fit their supplies? Why, as a student having done geology, can i not see evidence for the great flood in the soil profiles taken from the mountain ranges surrounding my city?

The story is not literal.
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I think the land plants, such as olives, are more problematic, they simply can't survive for 40 days submerged in seawater, neither can their seeds.
 
Autodidact

Autodidact

Intentionally Blank
9-10ths_Penguin said:
They didn't get them onto the Ark. They all died in the flood; that's why they're now extinct. Simple enough explanation, really.
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Yes, all the extinct prehistoric sea creatures perished in the flood, while Noah gathered sloths from South America, which lived, as did the Redwood trees and orchids, all while underwater.
 
9-10ths_Penguin

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Autodidact said:
Yes, all the extinct prehistoric sea creatures perished in the flood, while Noah gathered sloths from South America, which lived, as did the Redwood trees and orchids, all while underwater.
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Why's it so hard to believe that a God capable of flooding the entire Earth and drying it out again could find some way to let a tree survive underwater?

And the sea creatures didn't die because of the flood, they died because of sin.

;)
 
gnostic

gnostic

The Lost One
Has anyone wondered how would marsupials, like the kangaroo, koala and wombat disembark from the ark Mt Ararat, and then migrated all the way to Australia?

The kangaroo could possibly make such journey, but koala and wombat are not known for hazardous travelling abilities.

There are no evidences of fossils or skeleton remains in the Asia.
 
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painted wolf

painted wolf

Grey Muzzle
what about the poor sloths that had to make it to South America? Or the snails, slugs and turtles...

poor fellows.

wa:do
 
sandy whitelinger

sandy whitelinger

Veteran Member
darkendless said:
How would they get lions and zebras together?
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Separately.

darkendless said:
How would they make the ark big enough for all those animals?
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Spend an hundred years bulding it.
darkendless said:
What would they eat and drink?
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Food and water.

darkendless said:
Where would they fit their supplies?
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One whole story of the ark.

darkendless said:
Why, as a student having done geology, can i not see evidence for the great flood in the soil profiles taken from the mountain ranges surrounding my city?
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It's a mystery.

darkendless said:
The story is not literal.
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You say that with 100% assurity.
 
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