If the Flood were local, why was the Ark big enough to hold all the different kinds of vertebrate land animals? If only Mesopotamian animals were aboard, the Ark could have been much smaller.14
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Do you even know how big the ark was? And it wasn't just to hold animals, it was to hold housing, food, water, and space for the people as well!
"why was the Ark big enough to hold all the different kinds of vertebrate land animals?"
If you maybe consider that there wasn't an ark in the first place this makes the answer to the question so much easier.
it WASNT big enough, thats one of the ways we know the story is bullshit.
1. I've read a story about a flood, god, and supernatural events.
PS: The Bible explicitly says the flood covered 'the entire Earth'.
"This is how you should build it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, its height thirty cubits." (Gen. 6:15) A cubit is an ancient measure some of us still use when we're too lazy to get a ruler. It is from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. On my arm it's 17 inches (43.18 cm), but I am quite short. Most will have a larger number.If we assume Noah was slightly taller than me, the ark was 450x75x45 feet. It could fit into a large house lot (aout 3/4 acre) or an urban park. The idea of fitting all the world's land and freshwater species on board, plus supplies, is nuts. It's a cute fairy tale.
Do you really think that Noah's ark could have held every species on Earth? Or do you think that superevolution happened, allowing species to be derived from specific "kinds" of animals over the course of 4,000 years? Because both are equally retarded.
6:15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
The Hebrew cubit is about 18"
6:16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
So each floor was 15 feet high and there was only one window in it that was 18"X18".
The average large home warehouse store is around 100,000 square feet. Do you really believe that you could fit two of every animal into that building?
Ok, do you have a census of all the animals of the earth at the time?, and what happened to the invertebrates who didn't fit there?, were they born by miracle or what?
'Noah's ark is a problem. We'll have to call it "early quantum state phenomenon." Only way to fit five thousand species of mammal on the same boat.' -- River Tam
She's crazy *and* fictional, yet she still sees the problem.
I don't know. I'm stumped.
Why was the ark big enough to hold all the different kinds of vertebrate land animals?
My mind keeps drifting into other questions like "How did they manage to build an ark that big considering the materials and the skills available to the specific time period and locale?"
Or:
"How did they manage to transport animals from other continents to the ark (assuming that the ark was built in a landlocked area)? Assuming also that these animals were live, what was the death toll before embarkation, during the voyage, and at debarkation? How many staff members were needed to care for the surviving animals? How did the human staff survive and with what facilities and equipment?"
Or:
It's simple.
1) It really wasn't Noah, it was Dr. Who.
See? Told ya it was simple.
What gets me is if 'god' exists and did create a global flood why did he bother to save the animals? He could have just made more (or even intelligently designed them again).
Also, if he really wanted to save the animals why did he bother getting Noah to make a big boat that would have been highly unlikely to do what it was design to do? He could have made a giant magic bubble for them to live in until everything was ok.
If the flood was world-wide, how did the koalas get back to Australia? Trek across the Negev deserts, through Pakistan and India, down the Malay peninsula then swim the ocean carrying a huge backpack of gum and eucalyptus leaves to munch on along the way? How did the llamas swim the Atlantic, cross the Amazon jungle, climb into the Andes (which, according to AiG, didn't exist until after the Flood) and develop special hemoglobin to cope with the thin air? How did the Virginia opossums get back to North America? They only live for about a year and a half. Did they die on the ark and leave their babies to find their way back by magic?
It's begging the question, alright! And it's a doozie!
I must say, reading that just strikes me dumb. How can people be warped enough to believe this?
"why was the Ark big enough to hold all the different kinds of vertebrate land animals?"
Unless Noah was one big fucking guy, I really doubt it.
They search for logic and explanations, and will twist and distort history, the truth and even their own bible to try and keep this story in there.
I read this one once at fstdt and I think it fits:
When Scooby Doo isn't real, then who is Shaggy's dog?
What about all the fish Noah would have had to keep in the Ark?
Oh, and @ Rainking:
It wasn't the Doctor, it was the Rani, trying to save as many animals as she could after she destroyed the water canopy surrounding the Earth, DUH!
But it wasn't nearly big enough. And what about the invertebrates? It was supposed to be all the animals, not just the vertebrates. Also, the sea and freshwater animals would not have survived, vertebrate or not. Neither would the plants.
The logic of the fundies goes round and round
[to the tune of "wheels on the bus"]
THERE ARE NO ANSWERS IN GENESIS!
Ken Ham and Terry Montenson are mong deluxe. There is no point arguing with them, their delusions are so fixed that even ECT wouldn't shift them. Better to just to control the damage that their psychotic ramblings do...
If you say "all the different kinds fit", what's a "kind"?
And if you say, "It's so easy a 5-year-old can tell what kind of animal it is", please tell us what "kind" this is:
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Well? You're smarter than a 5-year-old, aren't you?
"why was the Ark big enough to hold all the different kinds of vertebrate land animals?"
And other than the book claiming it was, what evidence do you have that the ark even existed, and that it was "big enough"?
Confused?
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