could Noah´s ark contain all the 5 million animal species classified until today ?
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Some people take the Bible literally. These people are called fundamentalists. But other Christians see much metaphor in the Bible and story-telling that contains a moral point to it. I possess no doctorate degree in theology, but it shows how much Noah cared not just for his family he was saving but wanted to save the animals from God's wrath as well. It shows his compassion. That's one of the things you get out of the story of Noah and his ark, but there are many more lessons to be learned from that story too besides that one.\n\nAlso, it should be noted that if an interesting story with a moral point to it in the Bible can be proved to not have happened it does not prove that therefore there is no God.
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Indirectly there IS Biblical proof. In Rev. ch. 21, God promises a new heaven and a new Earth. Now, if you stop and think about that for a moment you immediately realize that a new earth without plants, animals, etc. is nothing but a big rock spinning in space. Not much of a reward, there!\n\nSo if God is true to His Word, the new earth will be populated with all the myriad lifeforms we see today and maybe some that have long been extinct. They'll all have glorified bodies and not need to prey on others. The lion will lie down with the lamb, etc. \n\nUnder such a scenario, I think it highly unlikely that a loving Father would fail to give us our precious babies, don't you?
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No, Noah and his family were only one race and stayed that way until today.  the flood was locale and killed all except Noah and his family.  Other races were all around and alive before and after the flood.  there is Asia kingdoms that date their kings back before the flood and all though it.\nif you look up the word "world" in a Strong's you'll find that it means "land", "nation", or "country".  this tells us that God put Adam and Eve on the earth and also other "Adam and Eve's" of other races.
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there were seven of the clean animals \n\nthere were at least 2 of every kind but 7 clean animals\n\nthis is why in the mythology of noah they were able to eat\n\nFrom Genesis:\n\n7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,  Here Noah is explicitly told that both clean and unclean animals are to go into the ark in pairs. This is in direct contradiction with the instructions God gave Noah in 7:2-3.\nHow many of each kind did Noah take into the ark? \n Whether by twos or by sevens, Noah takes representatives from each species of "every thing that creepeth upon the earth." [more] \n \n7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
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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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MOSES DID NOT TAKE ANYONE ABOARD AN ARK..HE PARTED THE RED SEA..HE TALKED TO A BURNING BUSH...NOAH TOOK 2 OF EVERY KIND OF ANIMAL ON THE ARK WITH HIM...ALL BUGS...ALL BIRDS..ALL MAMMALS..YES..OCEAN ANIMALS TOO...THEY ALL FIT ...GOD IS POWERFUL
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The dinosaurs fit right in. What I don't get is how more people don't see how it fits but let me give you my humble opinion. This is not doctrine, this is one man's opinion. This is what I believe. On things of God we have a couple a sacred texts or scripture, in the oldest book about God written by the hands of prophets on stone, papyrii and what not we have accounts of the creation, in Genesis the first of even the pentetauch we are given such as slim or incomplete description that it is possible that 1 billion years could pass by as we read in a matter of one stanza. It has been said that 1 day in God's time is 1000 of our years in our reckoning. So lets take the first 6 days of the creation, or in particuliar the the 5th day after he had made some grass and light and stuff. In Gen 1:20 it say that He said" Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21. And God created great whales, and every living vreature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and Multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 32. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 24 And God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind; and it was so. " So that 5th day was very busy and at 1000yr /day reckoning its possible that it took 365,000 years to complete but cant know precisely yet . The beast of the earth that is referred to, also the great whales that are referred to, also refences to unicorns and all manner of beasts now extinct, isn't it possible that although not specifically mentioned that and on the 5th day about the 6th and 1/2 hour God made the T-rex and he blessed them and saw that they were ferocious. No . We only have this small wordage to assemble together the whole of creation. I dont see a problem with 17 billion year universe age and putting it into Gods plan at all. Bless you and have a pleasant tomorrow.
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I appreciate that you are asking this question to make people think... but it's my opinion that it is a hopeless cause.  People that believe in the Noah's Ark story are already ignoring vast amounts of common sense.\n\nHow could anyone build a boat big enough to house all the species that we know exists and be sea-worthy?  How did certain animals end up on some continents, but not others?  How did animals migrate to Australia?  Where did they get their food on the ark?  How did all the vegetation survive the drowning?  The questions go on and on, and there are few (if any) reasonable answers to explain them.\n\nGood luck in your efforts to make people use a little common-sense.
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Probably not.  Though I've lost the reference, I remember reading once that large animals (wolves, saber-toothed tigers, mammoths, etc.) would only have to get stuck and die together once a decade to produce the number of bones that have been found there.
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He didn't. He fit two of every animal in an extremely huge ark. And back then two of every animal was a small amount because mutations didn't occur among the animals making the many subspecies we have today. We'd only have one type of ape, one type of duck, and so on.
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Here's something to think about.\n\n1) How could he have possibly fit 2 of every animal and insect on an ark that size?\n2) How did he control the situation of having animals that are natural enemies on a boat together?\n3) How did he feed all the different animals when some can only eat specific food from their region (other animals or region specific plants)?\n4) How did he fit a months worth of food on the ark with the animals?\n5) What about the specific climate needs of each animal?\n6) How did Noah and his family repopulate the globe with different races of people?\n7) Who the hell cleaned up all the shit?!?\n\nI could really go on and on - THINK!
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Animalia - all animals fall into this catagory
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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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Memorably, a few dozen. Taxonomically, trillions upon trillions. 99.99999% of all the species ever on Earth are now extinct.
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God told Noah: "And as for you, take for yourself every sort of food that is eaten; and you must gather it to yourself, and it must serve as food for you and for them.”  (Gen. 6:21)\n\n"Later on the dove came to Noah about the time of evening and, look! there was an olive leaf freshly plucked in its bill, and so Noah got to know that the waters had abated from the earth. 12 And he went on waiting still another seven days.  Then he sent out the dove, but it did not come back again to him anymore."  (Gen. 8:12,)  This indicates that vegetation was growing again on the earth, like the olive tree.  After Noah sent the dove out the third time, it did not come back, which most likely shows that ample vegetation had grown on the earth to feed the dove.\nYet, some olive trees in the Flood apparently retained their vitality, enabling them to sprout fresh shoots when the waters receded.\n\nConcerning the olive tree, 'The New Bible Dictionary' states:  “If cut down, new shoots spring up from the root, so that as many as five new trunks could thus come into being.  Moribund [near dead] olives usually sprout in this manner also.”  It is “as if its vitality were indestructible,” says The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.  No human today knows the details, such as salinity and temperature, of the floodwaters. Hence, we cannot be sure about their potential effect on olive trees and other vegetation.\n\nIf you would like further information, please contact Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Hall.  Or visit http://www.watchtower.org
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Hello sweet Kayla.. :)\n\nCould Noah's Ark really hold all the animals that were supposed to be preserved from Flood?\n \nA growing number of scientists believe that geological evidence indicates our world has undergone a catastrophic flood. This is causing them to question whether or not the biblical account of Noah's ark could be true. Many people are rereading the Biblical description of the Ark to ascertain the feasibility of such a vessel to fulfill its designated purpose in light of present day knowledge of both zoology and our present day knowledge of shipbuilding.\n \nSize comparison between average size one-story home and Noah's Ark. Illustration from The World that Perished.How big was Noah's Ark?\n\n"And God said unto Noah… Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt though make in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 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. A window shalt thou make in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side therof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it." (Gen. 6:14-16)\n \nA cubit is the distance between an adult's elbow and tip of the finger, no less than 18-inches [45.72 centimeters]. (Scene from The World that Perished.)Most Hebrew scholars believe the cubit to have been no less than 18 inches long [45.72 centimeters]. This means that the ark would have been at least 450 feet long [137.16 meters], 75 feet wide [22.86 meters] and 45 feet high [13.716000000000001 meters]. Noah's Ark was said to have been the largest sea-going vessel ever built until the late nineteenth century when giant metal ships were first constructed. Its length to width ratio of six to one provided excellent stability on the high seas. In fact, modern shipbuilders say it would have been almost impossible to turn over. In every way, it was admirably suited for riding out the tremendous storms in the year of the flood.\n\nThese dimensions are especially interesting when compared to those given in the mythical, Babylonian account of the Ark. Here the ark is described as a perfect cube, extending 120 cubits in all directions and with nine decks. Such a vessel would spin slowly round and round in the water and from the standpoint of stability, would be a disaster.\n\nWas the ark big enough to hold the number of animals required?\nThe total available floor space on the ark would have been over 100,000 square feet, which would be more floor space than in 20 standard-sized basketball courts.\n \nAssuming an 18-inch cubit [45.72 centimeters], Noah's Ark would have had a cubic volume equal to 569 modern railroad stock cars.The total cubic volume would have been 1,518,000 cubic feet [462,686.4 cubic meters] --that would be equal to the capacity of 569 modern railroad stock cars.\n\nNow comes the question, how many land dwelling air breathing animals would have had to be taken aboard the ark to survive the flood?\n\nAccording to Ernest Mayr, America's leading taxonomist, there are over 1 million species of animals in the world.\n \nGod only provided the Ark for the protection of humans and land-dwelling, air-breathing creatures. A huge number of animals would not need to be taken aboard the Ark because they are water dwellers. Representatives would be expected to survive the catastrophe. With God's protection against extinction during the Deluge, survival would have been assured. (Scene from The World that Perished, a Christian motion picture about the Flood)However, the vast majority of these are capable of surviving in water and would not need to be brought aboard the ark. Noah need make no provision for the 21,000 species of fish or the 1,700 tunicates (marine chordates like sea squirts) found throughout the seas of the world, or the 600 echinode
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According to my sources:\n\n"Today only about 5,000 wild tigers live in Asia."