How did Noah\n1. Physically gather a male and female of every species on earth - penguins and polar bears spring to mind as they occupy opposite poles (which must have been a helluva journey)?\n2. Know when his job was complete? Did God give him a "Dummies Guide to animal species"? He must have done a pretty remarkable job, because he must have saved species that weren't even discovered at the time.\n3. What about birds? He must have caught the Dodo, the Emu (Australia) and the Vulture - did he have a speedboat?\n4. How did he catch two blue whales? The largest known mammals grow to over three hundred feet in length. Did he use a net and bucket?\n\nC'mon all you bible experts. Tell me that Noah's Ark is just a story, whereas the bits about Jesus happen to be wordperfectly true.
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First off, why would he have to put blue whales in a boat for a flood?? Flood, water, fish.  Think about your question.  Second who says that the world was the same before the flood as after.  No one says that the continents didn't shift, move.  Third God sent the animals,  there also had to be a miracle to keep flesh eating animals with their prey.  You haven't even brought up the fact that he built a boat the size of a world war II aircraft carrier without modern equiptment.  Since you don't believe in miracles, obviously it would be too much for a God that made the whole universe to do these things.  How about raising Jesus from the dead, or Jesus raising Lazerus from the dead.  That is harder than bringing the animals to my point of view..  If it is just a story, how do the sea shells get up into the mountains?  Too much evidence to deny the flood.  Think about the whales, it will help.  Whoops here I am out in the cornfield again.  Genesis 6:22 Thus did Noah according to all that God commanded him, so did he..  Noah just did it and God made it happen..
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We know that evolution exists. Science can prove it. We also know that modern man was created by God, the Bible proves that! So what about all those creatures that existed on the Earth for hundreds of thousands of years? Of course they evolved. And some of them very much resemble modern man. But God said He created us in His image. Maybe not necessarily physically, God doesn't have a body! But the difference between us and those creatures is indeed that "missing link" that cannot be "found". The link is God. The difference is that we (modern man) were created with a free will. No other creatures have ever had that. \n\nIf you read Genesis 1:1 you see that God created the heaven and earth. But something very drastic happened probably over a very long period of time between verse one and two because we see in verse two that the earth was without form, and void...\nNow what does God create that is without form and void? Nothing! Everything God creates is perfect.\nSo what happened and how many years passed between verse one and verse two? Science tells us that, there's no mystery. Creatures of all kinds evolved, the popular idea is something hit the earth and tilted it on it's axis. That triggered all kinds of weather changes, ice ages countered by global warming (without benefit of fossil fuels I might add), dinosaurs lived and died off. Primitive man-like creatures became dominant. It's all there!\n\nSo yes, you can believe in God and understand that creatures indeed evolved. But modern man, with all of his uniqueness, was created by God.\n\nNow concerning your lack of passion for your faith... read Acts Chapter 2 in the New Testament a couple of times and see if that piques your interest. I'll guarantee you have never been taught that in the catholic church. You need to ask yourself why. It is clear by the scriptures that Jesus intends that everyone with a love for the truth receive the gift of the Holy Ghost just as described in Acts 2. Read it again! It still happens just that way. It's still real. I see it every week. I see the power of the Spirit being used through ordinary people like you and me. Ordinary people like Jesus and the disciples were. Jesus didn't come and die so that we would have to seek everything we needed through a priest. He came that we could boldy go directly to Him with our needs. That is scripture! You need forgiveness? You need to ask Jesus, not another man. You need compassion and love? Ask Jesus, don't ask another man. Do you want to understand exactly what He has for you in this life and the next? You need to ask Him, not some portly old fellow in a black robe. Ask God directly. Go boldly to the throne and tell Him you need to know more. You will be amazed what you will experience if you are sincere and have enough character!\n\nUpdate 5-1-06\nI read with interest one of the answers below that demonstrates exactly what is wrong with the churches today. Sure, just ask someone (other than God). And if you don't like that answer just go ask someone else. That say's two things:\n1. The "authotities" in the churches don't even agree on truth.\n2. People only are interested in what they want to hear.\n\nThat's what I meant when I said God will show you the truth if you seek it from Him with a true desire to know. Why ask another man who has no clue anyway? We are talking about something as important as the salvation of your soul. Why wouldn't you go directly to the source if the source asked, indeed pleaded with you, to do so?\nAnd Paul absolutely did not encourage people to believe whichever way was best for them. He wrote to the Ephesians in Ep. 4:5 that there is "One Lord, one faith, one baptism". You see this repeated throughout the New Testament. There are not many paths to God, there is one.  Please, read the scriptures for yourself. You do not need someone to interpret the Bible for you. Let God show you
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I find that question rather thought provoking and slightly humorous.\nMaybe we could communicate with all animals back then.\nHow did Noah get all those animals and bugs and creatures on the boat for instance, maybe he just asked.\nAdam did run the garden of eden and therefore he must of been very knowledgible with many things.  And if he had such a close relationship with God then who knows, maybe you are on to something.\nI did hear someone say that the animals had fear of man put into them after the flood.  And God did confuse the language of the people at the time of Babel and who knows what else .\nI think CS Lewis wrote a divinely inspired story that tugs at the heart strings of those who can see the love , gentleness and bravery and integrity of that beautiful lion. I felt like bawling my eyes out when he had to take that cruel humiliation for those whom he loved and looked after.  Just like Jesus did for us.
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The lord God helped Noah gather the animals of the world he did not do it alone.He wouldn't have had enough time.Do you believe in miracles?It was God's gift to the people not to destroy the world but to cleanse it.Why do you think we have rainbows after a storm.He asked us to forgive him.
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that's a perfect topic, too many scientific errors in the bible, too many to include. i'll state one for now:\n\nPro 6:6  You lazy people can learn by watching an anthill. \nPro 6:7  Ants don't have leaders, \n  \n\nants don't have leaders? what about the ant queen?\ni bet who ever wrote the bible didn't know that ants are highly organized beings.\n\n\nEDIT***\ni forgot my favorite error. earth has 4 corners:\n\nRev 7:1  After this I saw four angels. Each one was standing on one of the earth's four corners. The angels held back the four winds, so that no wind would blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree. These angels had also been given the power to harm the earth and the sea. Then I saw another angel come up from where the sun rises in the east, and he was ready to put the mark of the living God on people. He shouted to the four angels,
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I thik that you may find that you are correct in your assumption.  I don't think it will validate the whole Bible... unless Noah carved his name in the boat!!  But I am with you on the Epic of Gilgamish.
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In Genesis 8, Noah offered up sacrifices to God.  He could do that because he had brought some animals aboard the ark in larger groups than twos (Genesis 7:2).  Then in Genesis 9, God put the fear of man in the heart of every animal, so that they would be hard to catch, and then He said to Noah that they were to be food for him as well as the plants.  Apparently there was enough time for the animals to reproduce because we've been eating them for centuries, and we still have enough to eat.
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Noah said, "Now I have HERD everything."  Do you know what animal Noah couldn't trust?  The cheetah. And what kind of lights did he use on the Ark?  Flood lights. And why couldn't anyone play cards on the Ark?  Because Noah was sitting on the deck!
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You are right.\n\nCenturion: I hope that you only are asking this question sarcastically, in order to give an example of the silly questions that creationists ask, so nobody has to explain that obviously species take separate evolutionary paths, based on their environment, so that the same species in different environments will eventually evolve into different species.\n\nUnknown: What do you mean by a fossil of a creature turning into something else?  That doesn't really make much sense, seeing how all creatures are in the process of turning into "something else" - we just don't know what the future of evolution holds.  Haven't you heard about the recent discovery of the fossil of the "fish" which helps to provide evidence of the transition of animals from water to land?  I don't really know what you mean by saying that there are no "missing links" - there are thousands of them!  I just ahve the feeling that no number of missing links would be sufficient.  Between any two species it will always be possible ask for a "linking" fossil, and since there cannot be an infinite number of fossils, it will always be theoretically possible to say that no missing links have been found.\n\nmamcrackin: http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=12200044CLXE\nsee my comment above that no number of misssing links will ever be able to "prove" evolution.  If half-man/half-animal were found (and they have been, just look at all the fossils of the earlier human species) creationists would just ask for 3/4 man, 1/4 animal fossils, and then 7/8 man, 1/8 animal, and so on.  \n\nindiebaptist: Her point is that while there would be fish fossils evenly dispersed throughout the layers of earth, non-aquatic animals would be clumped in one layer - the layer during which the flood occurred.  This is not what we find when looking at the fossils in the layers of earth.  The great flood was also gods way of killing a lot of animals who had done nothing to deserve that punishment. by the way, hovind's PhD (from a non accredited school) is in christian education, not biology or any other science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Hovind  \nI really have to wonder where you are getting your facts from.  Darwin wasn't a lawyer, and even if he was, you are citing the work of someone trained in christian education, not science in order to support your belief.  How is that any better?  In any case, Darwin was formally trained to be a clergyman, but studied a lot of the natural sciences on the side. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin\nRegardless of darwin's training, his theories must stand on their own merit, as his has done, and not on the credentials of their creator.
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weird huh.\n\nconsider this too.  arn't we all really decendants of Noah?  after the flood he saved the animals and only his family.\n\npretty suspsicious.
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I think they were killed in the flood, but have you ever read (I think) in Job about the leviathan?  Sounds so much like a brontesaurus or dipladucas doesn't it?  People try to say it's a croc, but it's  nothing like a crocodile.  Also Psalms 74 says He lopped off the heads (plural) of leviathan, and made mincemeat of the dragon.  I'm not trying to make people believe anything, it's just one of the things I wonder.
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You have a lot of questions here, so I'll do my best:  \n\nWhy did God flood the world?\n  The story goes that God was angered at the wickedness of mankind and sent the flood to wipe the slate clean.  Noah and his family were spaerd because of Noah's righteousness.\n\nWhy does he kill everybody?\n  I'm just going to assume that this is part of the flood question, and therefore see above.\n\nWhy did he destroy Soddom and goomorrah(sic)? \n  For much the same reason as the great flood.  These were two cities destroyed for their sins.  What these sins were isn't fully explained, but we can assume they were heinous.\n\nWhy does he kill people in Pakistan and New Orleans?\n  He doesn't.  Natural disasters occur and people die.  That is a tragedy, but it is not God's fault.  God doesn't cause natural disasters, they just happen.  It's a part of life.\n\nWhy does he allow Hitler to kill 6 million people and he goes to heaven because he is Cristian(sic).... And Anne Frank does not because she is Jew?\n  Ok, God gave mankind free will.  Free will is the ability to decide our own paths.  It is our choice to be good or evil, not God's.  If God interfered, it would no longer be free will.  Hitler does not go to heaven.  Merely being Christian is not enough, especially considering that Hitler committed suicide, which prevents you from going to heaven.  I don't believe that there is any doctrine that says Jews cannot go to heaven.\n\nHe is a racist and a homophobe!!! Why do people like God when he is sooooooooo nasty!\n  God isn't racist and homophobic.  Some people who interpret God are, and they spread a message of hate and intolerance.  To many people, however, God is a being of comfort and forgiveness.  Peace and tolerance.  Bear in mind that the Bible was written by men, and men are flawed.  The church is run by men.  We will never be perfect, but we try to do teh best we can.\n\n\nI hope this helps.
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First off it was a local flood. So not every specie was in that area. They could have been infants. \n\nNoah’s deluge. To understand you have to start with Gen.6:1.\nGen.6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, \nThe word “men” is Heb. (ha-adham) means “the man Adam” or his progeny. The word “them” is referring to Adam and Eve. The scripture is talking about Adam and Eve’s clan and not mankind. Mankind a subject for another time. \nGen.6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. \nThe term “sons of God” means angels or fallen angels. The word “men” again means Adam and Eve’s progeny or clan. Satan was trying to corrupt God’s plan. That is, from umbilical cord to umbilical cord would come Christ. This is why Eve is called “the mother of all living”.\nGen.6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. \nThe word “perfect” Heb. (tamin) means “without blemish as to breed or pedigree”.\nGen.6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. \nThe word “earth” Heb. (erets) means “land”, not the whole earth. Besides God says, “to destroy all flesh” in Adam’s clan.\nGen.7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. \nGen.8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. \nIf the entire globe had been under water 150 days, where did this olive leaf (pluckt off) come from.\nGen 9:11  And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. \nRemember what God said in Gen.6:17, “to destroy all flesh”. Here God makes a covenant with Noah and his sons. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more. Neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. Two floods. One for flesh, Noah’s deluge. One to destroy the earth back in Gen.1:2. The global flood is a subject for another time.\nSome consider the plateau of Pamir to be the original Eden. This probably was the homeland of Adam's descendants up until the time of the Flood. Today it’s known as the Tarim Basin or Eastern Turkestan. This region is surrounded by a ridge of very high mountains forming a gigantic basin in the midst of them. It measures 1,000 miles long and is about 350 miles wide.  \nUssher’s Chronology says 2348 B.C., Davidson says November 2345 B.C. to November 2344 B.C. for Noah’s deluge.\nRecords of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia., their King Lists date to about 3350 B.C., and show an ongoing civilization well through the period of the flood. Egypt felt nothing of the deluge, they had an uninterrupted succession of Dynasties. China's civilization during the Yao Dynasty (between 2400 B.C. – 2200 B.C.) with no record of a cataclysmic interruption. \nSo Noah’s deluge was a local flood. But there was a global flood in Gen.1:2. Study II Pet.3:5-7,  Jer.4:23-27.\nPsa.104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. Psa.104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. \nGen 1:6  And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
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Bible says God created animals. But not as they are NOW. Nowhere does it even elude to the fact that animals would never evolve, mutate or branch off. Creationists dont believe that animals, and humans have not changed, or even evolved with time. Nature would do that, animals would adapt as habitats changed. Thats just common sense.\n\nDinosaur bones. Not Satan. Who is to say that Donsaurs did not walk the earth? I dont believe God created the world in 6 days, but that it was an example, a metaphore if you will. Gods time is not our time, and Dinosaurs could have been created, and extinct before Adam even came to be.
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Ok, how can you believe in evolution? I mean really, the complexity of animals, and well every living thing, came about by accident!! At least we have the bible that was inspired by God! And was correct about allot of scientific things way before man figured it out!\n\n 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.\n\nAll you have is a theory that we came from nothing!\n\n\nNo, I am not mad, just stating the obvious.\n\n\nloj
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No, Eve was not created with Adam.  There is the legend of Lilith, the first woman, she refused to do what Adam told her and she flew off to eventually marry Salathiel (an Angel gone bad) and they had some hellashish creature babies.  OOOOOO now the Christians are gonna jump me, they ought to check out how many of each kind of animal was on the ark, and who really killed Goliath, and were did the Sons of Anak come from if all the giants died in the flood.  Just a few inconsistencies in that great book.  But I believe in what is right, my own version, and if their versions every denomination can be "the way," then so can mine, but only for me!  Thanks man, this was fun.
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Eve was HOTTT; one of the wildest women the world has ever seen.  What a babe.  She would have made the biker babe calendar for sure.  Maybe even the Corn Festival Queen but they didn't have floats until Noah built one.  Not only that she had to be one of the smartest people on the planet.  She was, after all, the first person to eat from the tree that gave big time knowledge AND the only other person around was dumb Adam.  Adam did have a soft spot in his heart for Eve, or maybe it was a soft spot near his heart, say, on his rib cage.