Noah's Ark

[We Never Know]

If you believe/accept the story of Noah's ark, how did Noah get from Mesopotamia(modern Iraq) to the Arctic to get polar bears for example?

 

[Subduction Zone]

If you believe/accept the story of Noah's ark, how did Noah get from Mesopotamia(modern Iraq) to the Arctic to get polar bears for example?

Believers will point out that God called the animals to Noah. It only take a slight tweak to fix your question. It is still a valid one. The question is how did the animals get back to where they came from.

Would you believe that some believers suggested seriously that at one time some argued that maybe God "blew them up" back to Australia etc. Conservipedia has and article on just that for years.

 

[Stevicus]

If you believe/accept the story of Noah's ark, how did Noah get from Mesopotamia(modern Iraq) to the Arctic to get polar bears for example?

A lot of plot holes in that story. But then again, Noah's zoological encyclopedia was probably lacking back in those days. Some species, such as those indigenous to Australia or the Americas, were likely unknown to Noah and his contemporaries.

 

[Spice]

If you believe/accept the story of Noah's ark, how did Noah get from Mesopotamia(modern Iraq) to the Arctic to get polar bears for example?

In Sunday School we were taught they came to him per the word of God. Same with kangaroos and llamas.

It made for a good children's take.

 

[F1fan]

Believers will point out that God called the animals to Noah. It only take a slight tweak to fix your question. It is still a valid one. The question is how did the animals get back to where they came from.

Would you believe that some believers suggested seriously that at one time some argued that maybe God "blew them up" back to Australia etc. Conservipedia has and article on just that for years.

Right, the animals got back to Australia on floating mats of material, according to some claims. No food, no water, no problem.

Another claim I heard was that pangea existed before the flood, and then the continents drifted post flood. This is how animals were able to come to Noah, and then go back without oceans being a problem. Brilliant. Someone calculated how fast the continental drift had to be, and it was laughable. And of course the drift abruptly stopped.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Right, the animals got back to Australia on floating mats of material, according to some claims. No food, no water, no problem.

Another claim I heard was that pangea existed before the flood, and then the continents drifted post flood. This is how animals were able to come to Noah, and then go back without oceans being a problem. Brilliant. Someone calculated how fast the continental drift had to be, and it was laughable. And of course the drift abruptly stopped.

I was serious when I said that some creationists propose volcanic explosions blowing koalas and such back to Australia. The article has been edited since but they did actually propose that. The story appeared in Thunderf00t's "Why do people laugh at creationists" videos. Number 39 to be precise. He at least has screen shots of it in the linked video. I do not know if one can use Google to pull up old versions of the work:

I used to go to Conservapedia now and then to see if the article was still there. It took years for them to take it down. I was so ad when that happened.

 

[1213]

If you believe/accept the story of Noah's ark, how did Noah get from Mesopotamia(modern Iraq) to the Arctic to get polar bears for example?

Bible tells the animals went to the Ark, Noah didn't have to get them. And, it is probable that in the Ark there was just one kind of bears and all modern bears are offspring of those that were in the ark. Similarly as we now have about 7 billion different looking people, all though in the ark there were only 8 people.

During Noah's time, that what we call animal family, was probably called species. And there is about 460 families that would have been in the Ark.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Bible tells the animals went to the Ark, Noah didn't have to get them. And, it is probable that in the Ark there was just one kind of bears and all modern bears are offspring of those that were in the ark. Similarly as we now have about 7 billion different looking people, all though in the ark there were only 8 people.

During Noah's time, that what we call animal family, was probably called species. And there is about 460 families that would have been in the Ark.

You propose an incredibly rapid evolution that has no precedent, reason or evidence to support it. And I predict that from the typical rejection of evolution by literalists that support the Ark story, this is going to be a difficult hurdle to find acceptance.

 

[Dimi95]

During Noah's time, that what we call animal family, was probably called species. And there is about 460 families that would have been in the Ark.

So why do we have today about 8.7 million living animal species,from which 1.2 milion are observed and classified?
How did that happend?

 

[Audie]

Right, the animals got back to Australia on floating mats of material, according to some claims. No food, no water, no problem.

Another claim I heard was that pangea existed before the flood, and then the continents drifted post flood. This is how animals were able to come to Noah, and then go back without oceans being a problem. Brilliant. Someone calculated how fast the continental drift had to be, and it was laughable. And of course the drift abruptly stopped.

"Hydroplate theory" is past being funny.

 

[Audie]

I was serious when I said that some creationists propose volcanic explosions blowing koalas and such back to Australia. The article has been edited since but they did actually propose that. The story appeared in Thunderf00t's "Why do people laugh at creationists" videos. Number 39 to be precise. He at least has screen shots of it in the linked video. I do not know if one can use Google to pull up old versions of the work:

I used to go to Conservapedia now and then to see if the article was still there. It took years for them to take it down. I was so ad when that happened.

I heard it was Pterodactyls that flew them
in

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

If you believe/accept the story of Noah's ark, how did Noah get from Mesopotamia(modern Iraq) to the Arctic to get polar bears for example?

(btw: RIP akira....)

 

[soulsurvivor]

If you believe/accept the story of Noah's ark, how did Noah get from Mesopotamia(modern Iraq) to the Arctic to get polar bears for example?

The story of Noah's Aek is a myth. We should not expect it to be literally true. But since similar stories of the great flood exist in the mythologies of many ancient communities (Flood myth - Wikipedia), I would think there some truth to it.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

... how did Noah get from Mesopotamia(modern Iraq) to the Arctic to get polar bears for example?

A more pertinent question might be:

When will yet another Noah's Arc Expose be deemed unbearable?​

 

[Mock Turtle]

Noah's Ark was obviously concerning the existence of Pangaea, and where all the animals could have been rounded up on the one continent. Unfortunately many of them wouldn't have existed at this time however - including any humans

 

[Audie]

The story of Noah's Aek is a myth. We should not expect it to be literally true. But since similar stories of the great flood exist in the mythologies of many ancient communities (Flood myth - Wikipedia), I would think there some truth to it.

What sort of truth are you talking about?

Archtypes, the nature of the human mind,
the reality of bad floods, a megaflood that
originated all flood legends?

 

[soulsurvivor]

A megaflood that wiped out a civilization (but not the whole world nor all of humanity/animals). Many ancient texts mention such a flood.

 

[Soandso]

Bible tells the animals went to the Ark, Noah didn't have to get them.

How did monophagous animals survive on the ark? Did pandas and koalas bring their own bamboo and eucalyptus leaves with them when they made the journey? There's quite a lot of different kinds of monophagous animals in the world... How would Noah feed them on the ark or gather the specific food they needed?

 

[Stevicus]

I was serious when I said that some creationists propose volcanic explosions blowing koalas and such back to Australia. The article has been edited since but they did actually propose that. The story appeared in Thunderf00t's "Why do people laugh at creationists" videos. Number 39 to be precise. He at least has screen shots of it in the linked video. I do not know if one can use Google to pull up old versions of the work:

I used to go to Conservapedia now and then to see if the article was still there. It took years for them to take it down. I was so ad when that happened.

You know, it occurs to me that, since Hollywood keeps rehashing old stories and doing remakes, here's one they could remake. A modern version of Noah's Ark, but call it "Noah's Fleet." He would need a whole fleet of ships to sail to the four corners of the Earth to gather up all the species of the world. Plus, he would need escort vessels, aircraft carriers, missile cruisers - just in case he has any run-ins with Satan's fleet. They might have to do battle with some kind of demonic flying monkeys or something. They could have a shot of Noah carrying a big grenade launcher or something. "Noah: This time he means business!"

 

[soulsurvivor]

What sort of truth are you talking about?

Archtypes, the nature of the human mind,
the reality of bad floods, a megaflood that
originated all flood legends?

Here is the original myth as told by Plato The Myth of Atlantis and the Universal Flood - New Acropolis Library