No, there is very little nutrition in straw – it’s mostly silica. Hay might work for some of the creatures. But Noah would have had to include several tons of eucalyptus leaves for the koalas, so a stop by Australia was necessary before it was completely submerged. Also, stops in Africa and North America were needed to pick up food for the megafauna from those continents.
Interesting proposal. How long do you calculate it would take to collect the dietary-specific fodder for 30 million species? It ain’t gonna walk there on its own!
In my RCIA class today, we were talking about the Old Testament. The person leading the class said that that there wasn’t a literal Noah’s Ark. I’ve never heard that in my life before and it really is concerning me. Is that the official teaching of the Catholic Church and if so, where would I find it in the Catechism?
We can perfectly well be sinners, & need salvation, & be saved by Christ, even if Noah & Co. are all fictitious: sin is not made into a myth merely by being accounted for by myths.Nicely put.
Are you suggesting that God, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen, is not capable of doing this?
Ahoy, ahoy- the poop deck must have really been overused
God is not capable of the impossible.
You are looking too much into things with science, if you are truly Christian and have faith you should know that nothing is impossible through God. This is something that is really a matter of faith, like the doctrine of the Trinity. Nowhere in the Bible does it directly state there is a Trinity, but as faithful Christians, we believe.
?the bible does not directly rule out marine diesels as ye arke’s powerplants. that’s why I Believe they must have been present.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that the Genesis story is not to be read as symbolic language. And if you’re worried about my focusing on science, then you have to confront the serious challenges of the capacity of the ark, which you have conveniently refused to face.
The bible also does not rule out glass aquaria and electric-powered ventilation, aeration, heating and cooling systems. And of course GPS so that Noah could navigate back to Ararat after dropping the marsupials off in Australia.
Ah but you see God didn’t build the Ark- man did. Noah had the blueprints given to him by God but then Noah did the rest.If God fit all 30 million critters on the Ark then why would He ask Noah to build an Ark? God , who gave the blueprints to Noah, would have to countermand His own orders of Ark dimensions or God would have let Noah build an Ark then supernaturally made the ark large enough for millions of creatures! Why? To what purpose? Why have a human involved at all?Ah, but that’s one of the points of the story.God and Noah work hand in hand.- God and humans work towards salvation.God gave Noah the free will to obey His commands and to act in unison with Him- just as Abraham, and Moses and Mary- said “yes” to God’s will. to pull some magic trick to fulfill what WE think God could have done would be to deny man’s part in it, his free will to obey and our active part in God’s plans for the salvation of all. If God gave us free will, then He cannot take it away and usurp our part in His plan. To do otherwise would be a contradiction on God’s part- and God cannot be other the what He is. Besides these chapters -up to chapter twelve are not that important. they are but a prologue to the main parts of the story- How the Israelites became the Chosen People and the Patriarchs whose cooperation with God made all of salvation history possible. Pax:thumbsup:
I looked up the story on Noah and the Ark. It can be found in Gen.Chapters 6-9When were 30 million species created?
Have faith.
jean8
there’s been serious discussion of late about whether noah used a walking beam steam engine or a gas turbine. what do you think?
- calls himself “king of the world”, he is not claiming to be king over Australia, Tristan da Cunha, China or Greenland. he & his fellows is interpreted in his context: one that was familiar with what (from several later POVs, of which ours is one) was a small segment of the globe. What makes the geographical knowledge of the book of Genesis (which is roughly as old) any different in its geographical (& hydrological) knowledge ? If the answer is “inspiration”, the answer to that is, “How come ?”