Big Kahuna wrote:
The climate did actually change during Noah's time. But it wasn't man made but was an act of God. Man was so immoral, sinful, arrogant and sexually confused (like now where homosexuality is rampant) that God had enough and only spared Noah, his family and at least 2 of each animal.
So tell me oh great and all knowing Kahuna, since we know that there were not 2 of every animal with Noah, how did all the millions of species not on the ark survive???? If these species could survive, don't you think that some other human cultures that were present in the world back then would have been able to survive as well?
There were no polar bears on the ark, nor brown bears, black bears, Kodiak bears, moose, elk, caribou, white tailed deer, mule deer, mountain lions, lynx, bobcats, otters, wolverines, mink, martin, snowshoe hares, and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. There are more than 10,000 species of birds in the world. How many of these do you think made it on the ark? How about reptiles, amphibians, mollusks and even insects? We have identified some 900,000 insect species to date and there are probably 5 million or more that we have not even gotten that far on. There is little mention of insects on the ark, yet they are animals.
But what I really want to know is where did all that water come from, and even more, where did it all go. What would have stopped anyone who had a boat from living out the flood?
If only Noah and his family were on the ark, how did all the other races on the earth manage to survive (other boats, big ass rafts?).
Religious scholars have determined a date for the great flood of somewhere around 4128 BC. I find it interesting that there are numerous cultures (at least 5 that I know of) that have written language that started hundreds to thousands of years prior to the flood, and continued for hundreds to thousands of years after the flood. So how did all these civilizations continue if only Noah and his family survived the flood.
Here's an even funner question: How much rain had to fall every hour on average to cover the earth in water and make the ark necessary? There are mountains in excess of 29,000 feet above sea level on this planet. Doing some simple math and considering the fabled 40 days and nights of rain, that comes out to a total of 960 hours of rain. It would have had to average 30 FEET of rain an hour (or 6 inches of rain per minute) for all 960 hours to provide sufficient water to make this a reality.
Its a great story, there may have been localized flooding in the area known to Noah, but there just is no way that the entire world was under water and there is no way that 2 of every animal on the planet were on the ark. It is a story that brought me much consternation and got me into trouble as a child in Catholic school. When I asked the nun's or the priests these questions their answer was that I should simply have faith and believe. That doesn't work for me, probably why I was not fooled by Trump for a second.
Anyway, it is a lie to say that there were 2 or more of every animal in the world on Noah's ark. There might have been 2 of each species in the "known" world of the middle east and Africa at the time, but there was no representation from the unknown areas of the world at that time on the ark, yet all those species survived.
The native American cultures here in North America go back over 9000 years. They were here before the flood, and they are still here today, and none of these people were on the ark. So obviously it was not just Noah and his family that survived.