Noah's Ark a Reality

[The Atheist]

Magic trumps physics, people. Write that down. It could save your life someday.

This is why it's a waste of time trying to argue facts:

What if there was a storm? = God calmed the waters

How did they have enough food? = Manna/fresh donuts from heaven

Why didn't the animals eat Noah or other animals? = God's the boss

How did they miss the unicorns? = Unicorns are an abomination.

....

ad infinitum.

 

[NobbyNobbs]

Supposing that the Noah's Ark story is based on an actual, localized flood....

And supposing that someone managed to build a boat of the dimensions described in the Bible without it falling apart...


Do you think that it would be big enough to carry a breeding pair of each animal native to the region? That is, rather than including every species that exists worldwide, just include species native to, say, the Mediterranean basin. Heck, you could even generalize them into broad categories like that other guy did..cats, dogs, etc.

Even for such a localized event, would the ark have been large enough to house and feed them?

 

[MRC_Hans]

Supposing that the Noah's Ark story is based on an actual, localized flood....

And supposing that someone managed to build a boat of the dimensions described in the Bible without it falling apart...


Do you think that it would be big enough to carry a breeding pair of each animal native to the region? That is, rather than including every species that exists worldwide, just include species native to, say, the Mediterranean basin. Heck, you could even generalize them into broad categories like that other guy did..cats, dogs, etc.

Even for such a localized event, would the ark have been large enough to house and feed them?

My thoughts about the real origin of an Ark:

Peasant somewhere in the Mesopotanian area about 3k BC gets the idea that a flood is imminent or could happen. Builds himself a raft high on the ground while neighbours are snickering. Flood actually comes (as they do from time to time in that area), and he loads his family and household animals on the raft, drifts downstram and settles in a new place as flood subsides. Other survivors, who have lost family, possessions, and livestock, admire him, perhaps make him local chief.

... Add 2ky of story-telling, a pint of religion, and a prophet in need of a moral high ground, and you have the Biblical Flood legend. For the dimensions of the Biblical Ark, see my thesis in an earlier post, here.

Hans