by Fionn Croke
Please answer the following questions with scientifically verifiable answers where ever possible.
NUMBER OF ANIMALS (THAT WE KNOW OF.)
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The estimated number of animals on our planet falls somewhere in the vast range of 3-30 million species. If Noah took two of every kind of animal, that would be somewhere between 6 to 90 million animals. These animals would have included some 5,488 mammals, between 9,000 to 10,000 species of birds (not counting the ones that have gone extinct in the last thousand years,)
approximately 400 species of Testudines, (turtles, terrapins and tortoises,)
over 9,600 species of Squamata (lizards, snakes, and worm lizards),
25 species of crocodilia (crocodiles, gavials, caimans, and alligators,)
and an astounding 925,000 species of identified insects, (out of a probable species of FIVE MILLION.)
QUESTION 1. How did Noah fit somewhere between 6 to 90 million animals on a boat?
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FOOD/ WATER STORAGE & DIETARY REQUIREMENTS.
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To give just a couple of examples,
- The blue whale can eat up to 8000 lb's of krill in a day.- Elephants eat anywhere from 300 – 600 lb's of food per day, and drink from 100 to 300 liters of water a day.
- Humming birds eat more than their body weight of insects and nectar every day.
QUESTION 2. Where was Noah getting the vast supplies of fresh food and fresh water from for
each day, and where was he storing it?
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QUESTION 3. Carnivores had to get fresh meat from somewhere, so what were the vultures, komodo dragons, and other carnivorous animals eating when there was only two of every animal?
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QUESTION 4-A. The seas would be highly diluted due to all of the supposed rain, (no
salt water.) So how did the fourteen thousand species of fish that require salt water survive?
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QUESTION 4-B. Many special types of carnivores become very afflicted when forced to live off vegetation because they typically only meet their nourishment requirements from live foods. Likewise, many herbivores will only eat fresh foods.
Keep in mind that torturous concessions such as feeding these special need creatures with stored foliage, would be ill advised in such an unfathomably hostile environment when answering this question. Even with the supposition of these animals being able to tolerate a drastic change in their diets, how could Noah have feasibly provided fresh vegetation throughout the duration of their confinement?
(Keep in mind the lack of refrigeration and that open storage of the accessible rations would have solicited a number of pests to facilitate the natural rotting process, and that the high level of humidity would also have created an ideal environment for mold to thrive and spoil the food, meaning that every living creature, except for the strongest carnivores eventually able to dine on carcasses, would have soon starved because there would be nothing edible remaining on Noah’s ark.)
LOADING OF THE ANIMALS
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QUESTION 5. Given a very short load time of 5 minutes per animal pair and loading JUST mammals and birds, it would have taken over 45 days of working around the clock to load and off-load. This means that it would take all 8 people 5 days, working 24 hours a day, to feed, water, and clean each species - if they only spent 5 minutes with each species.
Does this seem plausible to you?
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KEEPING DIFFICULT ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY
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QUESTION 6. Where and how could Noah have stored the whales and other huge animals,
and how did he keep all of the other water dwelling animals? (Keeping in mind that if your answer is that they remained in the sea, a global flood would kill 99% of such life, and as if that wasn't enough, there are other reasons why this is not a viable answer, but I won't go into that now.)
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QUESTION 7. How could Noah have dealt with the animals that require grazing space?
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EXAMPLES OF SOME DELICATE, DIFFICULT & DANGEROUS ANIMALS:
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Venomous snakes (DANGEROUS)
Over 600 species are known to be venomous — (about a quarter of all snake species.) Certain venomous snakes can kill you with a single bite. Some cobras can also cause immense pain and blindness just by spitting their venom into its captors eyes.
- Coati (DIFFICULT)
Certain animals need much more space than others to survive.
Take for example, the Coati, (a member of the raccoon family.) Coati require a very large enclosure to roam about. They are extremely active and difficult to train. Coati forage for their food, and require a lot of mental stimulation.
- The Moorish Idol Fish (DELICATE)
Moorish Idols have a very specialized diet and nothing else is able to replace it.
They are also very sensitive to water quality and are one of the first fish to perish at the first sign of infectious disease in the tank. 95% of captive specimens die within a few months of being caught. None live their natural life span in captivity, and so they should be left where they
are.
- Koalas (DELICATE)
Koalas can survive for short periods away from their primary sources of nutrition, but the choice to forego these considerations compounds the great risk of killing such animals already traumatized by the drastic relocation onto an ark during a global flood.
- Primates (DIFFICULT & DANGEROUS)
(Monkeys, lemurs, etc.) If they get angry they will scream and throw a tantrum. The biggest problem with keeping primates in captivity is that they may go on a rampage without warning, or bite their captors. These animals can transmit diseases like Hepatitis A and HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS.
- The Chocolate Gouramis Fish (DELICATE)
Chocolate gouramis are extremely intolerant to changes in water chemistry, even small water changes can stress them beyond endurance if the water parameters are off.
- Freshwater Stingrays (DELICATE)
Freshwater Stingrays are very sensitive to changes in water chemistry and are very prone to bacterial infections in less than perfect water.
QUESTION 8-A. How did Noah keep the extremely delicate animals alive?
(Eg. those outside of their natural environment.) Please keep in mind all of the above information, which includes only a few examples of difficult animals, (of the 6 to 90 million onboard Noah's ark.)
QUESTION 8-B. How did Noah keep the extremely difficult and dangerous animals captive, surviving the process himself?
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QUESTION 9. Why didn't the animals rip each other to shreds?
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FORCED RELOCATION OF THE ANIMALS
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QUESTION 10. As a consequence of their forced relocation, the overwhelming majority of the animals wouldn’t have survived in the near-desert region of Mesopotamia due to the extreme climate. For example, many cave dwelling animals require 100% humidity to survive.
How could such animals live through months of turmoil on the boat, much less a week’s stay in the desert?
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GEOLOGY
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The amount of water necessary to produce a flood of global proportions far exceeds the current amount available on, in, and above the earth.
The “fountains of the deep” (Genesis 7:11) would contain only 1% of the necessary water, so 99% would have to fall from the supposed sky ocean. Thus, the goal of covering every mountain with only forty days’ worth of precipitation would require a rainfall of six inches per minute, (typically, we would expect six inches per hour from a category five hurricane,) which is far too tremendous for Noah's ark to remain intact.
The water originating from underneath the earth’s surface during a global flood would erupt with noxious gases, such as sulfuric acid, that would make their way into the atmosphere and cause the earth to become uninhabitable.
The lava expected to accompany the subterranean water, as well as the heat generated by the impact of the raindrops on the flood surface would also bring the already scalding liquid to its boiling point.
Under such circumstances, the entire ocean should have almost instantaneously been converted to steam. The steam rising from the ocean beds would have been concentrated enough to boil off the planet’s atmosphere.
QUESTION 11. How did Noah survive without an atmosphere?
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MISC QUESTIONS.
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QUESTION 12. God advised Noah to take a male and a female of each kind onto the ship (Genesis 7:2). Because variant asexual species reproduce without a sexual partner, there’s no male or female distinction of which to speak. As for the hermaphrodites, they simultaneously exhibit qualities of being both male and female. These two anomalous creature classifications have no distinct male and female members.How could Noah have gathered a male and female member of the kind as instructed by God? (Please answer without altering the clear meaning of the text.)
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QUESTION 13. How was such an incredible amount of animal waist dealt with?
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QUESTION 14. Where did all the water go? (Hint: it could NOT have evaporated, nor could it all
have gone to the ice caps.)
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QUESTION 15. How were they able to know every animals needs?
(Please note that if you answer 'divine intervention' (or something of that nature,)
you have given rise to questions as opposed to a logical, scientifically sound/ verifiable answer.)
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QUESTION 16. How did certain animals not die of stress? (Please do not answer with something
along the lines of 'certain species didn't survive,' as such answers will be read no differently
to if you had written 'Unicorns.')
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QUESTION 17. How were Noah's animals able to repopulate without their entire genetic line being deformed and eventually unable to breed without their offspring dying, etc.?
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QUESTION 18. How did Noah deal with the nocturnal animals and the hibernating animals being amongst the rest of the animals?
QUESTION 19. We posses journals made before, during, and after the global deluge of Noah's day, (eg. records of flourishing civilizations in China, Egypt, Babylon, and Mesopotamia exist straight through the flood era of 2500-2000 BCE.) (One such example: by around 2500 BC the Sumerian written script had developed into classic Sumerian cuneiform writing, with which a subtle and varied literature, containing economic and administrative documents, letters, stories, prayers, hymns and so on was being committed to writing.)
How can such documents exist?
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QUESTION 20. No sort of catastrophe on this level exists anywhere in the written histories of any society during any era. On the other hand, records of ancient civilizations frequently mention several LOCAL floods. IF people from each region somehow managed to survive and continue these records, why isn’t the cataclysmic flood mentioned in their accounts?
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QUESTION 21. The extremely similar Epic of Gilgamesh in the Sumerian legend predates Noah’s story by at least one thousand years in the written form and at least five hundred years for the setting. The similarities between the two tales are so remarkable that they cannot be writen off as mere coincidences. Please discuss.
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QUESTION 22. A surviving population of eight could not have rebounded quickly enough in order for the Tower of Babel story to take place only one or two centuries later. While God commands Noah’s family to be fruitful and multiply, seemingly providing the story with a mirage of plausibility, the population simply could not have grown to more than a hundred or so even under ideal environmental conditions. Could this minuscule group of people have possibly posed a threat to God by building a tower so immense that Heaven would become attainable to them? (Ignoring the obvious reply that God doesn’t live on top of the sky.)
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QUESTION 23. In Genesis 6:19–20, the Bible says that two of every sort of land vertebrate (seven pairs of the ‘clean’ animals) were brought by God to the Ark. Therefore, dinosaurs (land vertebrates) were represented on the Ark. Where and how did Noah keep the dinosaurs onboard the ark? (Keep in mind that you are grasping at straws if you are asserting that the global flood deposited the fossil layers.)
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