If Noah took a pair of every animal on earth aboard his ark, then that boat must have been big indeed! For the number of different kinds of animals, or species, is higher than you’d ever imagine.
The class of animals that human beings belong to, the mammals, includes close to 5,000 species. The number of birds is over 15,000. There are more than 3,000 kinds of snakes, and 300 kinds of turtles.
The mollusk family, which includes sea animals like the clam, has more than 100,000 members, while the lobster and crab family has over 20,000. There are some 15,000 species of protozoans, or one-celled animals, but the record for the number of different species is held by insects, with well over 750,000!
The best estimate is that there are at least three million different kinds of animals on earth!
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Kinds and species are very very different. If you are trying to prove the Bible inaccurate then you should really watch this video freehovind.com/watch-2528412371399195162 or just watch all of his videos at freehovind.com . Noah did not take every species he took ever KIND and he didn’t take full grown animals he didn’t take bugs and he didn’t take sea animals. He did however take dinosaurs.
The ark has the same cargo capacity of a modern cargo ship. The ark had a volume of 1.4 million cubic feet and a gross tonnage of 14,000 tons. This is the equivalent of 522 railroad box cars. The ark could have carried over 125,000 SHEEP-SIZED animals. Interestingly, there are less than 23,300 species of LAND ANIMALS alive today. Not including the 750.000 insects… How many insects does it take to equal the size equivalent of a sheep? Also, the average size of most animals is less than that of a sheep.. so i think there would have been enough room. As for water going Animals like fish and whales…. Um, they swim. And the bible never said Moses had to bring them on the Ark, most likely for that fact.
And You also have to take into consideration, The bible claims there to have only been one Land mass (Pangea) during this time before the flood. Genesis 1:9 hints toward that. Just thought i would throw that fact in before someone asks how Noah got all the animals from Australia…. AND the ark was built in a time frame of 120 years. Thats three times longer then it took to build the Egyption pyramids… So Noah did not need 30 years to get all the animals, he had 120.
Anyways, have a nice day:p
The bible also says that Noah and the animals spent a year on that boat. The bible states that Noah was to provide food for them. For example: that’s 365,000lbs of food for 2 elephants, 60,000lbs of food for 2 giraffes, 66,000lbs of food for 2 hippos, 16,000 pounds of meat (which would rot) for 2 lions, etc. Fitting just the animals on that boat was the least of Noah’s problem. He’d also need a really good pooper scooper. Oh, and let’s not forget the birds…
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You are missing an important point anon, if you read the bible carefully it is obvious that Noah did not just use one Ark. The truth is he used THOUSANDS of arks! There was an entire flotilla of arks to carry those animals AND their food.
This is the ONLY conclusion which explains how he saved all the animals (and his family) since there were literally millions of kinds and God told him to take two of each. Furthermore IF you knew anything about science you’d know that animals can eat manure, so that solves the food problem AND the manure problem anyway. Don’t believe yet? My dog eats his manure all the time and it’s even in the Bible that people can eat manure (II Kings 18:27) says “But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?”… so don’t go around blaspheming until you know science AND bible FACTS!
The Bible states nothing about the age of the animals. Furthermore, it states that Noah took 2 every “air breathing” type of animal. The Bible states that the flood raised 20 feet above all the mountains under the heavens. That’s 20 feet above Mt. Everest, where there isn’t enough air or heat to survive; so, all the animals – and Noah – would’ve died.
Mt. Everest would not have been the same height it is now back in Noah’s time. But even after all the facts and disagreements, it comes down to faith.
Of the Bible’s Noah account The Bible states nothing about the age of the animals. Furthermore, it states that Noah took 2 every “air breathing” type of animal. The Bible states that the flood raised 20 feet above all the mountains under the heavens. That’s 20 feet above Mt. Everest, where there isn’t enough air or heat to survive; so, all the animals – and Noah – would’ve died.
But, with God, everything is possible.
well see thats where youre wrong if water is taking up space thereby it is pushing the atmosphere up thus making it like there was no elevation change at all although water high enough to be over mt. everest is completely rediculous there is no amount of water like that on earth and the writers of the bible have probably never been more than 1000 miles from their home which means that they would not know about the existance of mt everest and given that most mountains in the holy land are reletively small the thought of a flood is more logical
You’re right, if there was a giant magical flood of water that rose 20 feet over all the mountains in the world, it would have eroded them quite a bit, so in fact Mt Everest would have been larger before this “flood”. Especially considering that in order for a flood to be a flood, the water must not be frozen obviously, thus it would have melted ice and such that had built up on Everest greatly decreasing its size
We’re really getting somewhere now… Stop trying to confuse me with the facts. God knows, pardon the expression, that we can’t use rational thought to discuss matters of the Bible. If you believe in a God that can do anything, than any argument against it is automatically null and void. It always falls on deaf ears, but none the less is fun to debate.