I don’t place limitations on God, I ask those who don’t seem to have analytical skills to help me understand how they can believe certain things. In this case, Noah would have had to have at least 2 of every SPECIES of land animal, not just 2 of every animal, on the ark. When people like my sister tell me Noah had 2 of every animal, I ask her what about every species of every animal.
All I get back for answers are the empty faith-based non-answers like you gave me. “You don’t know “Him” so why question this at all”.
Well, I am questioning it and I would like answers from those types of people who believe the literal stories such as these, that defy any logical analyis.
I’ll give you the assumption that Noah only needed 2 each, because it would be pretty easy for the Lord to insure that they all made the trip without expiring. I’ll give you that.
So how did Noah store his 2 each of 2900 species of snakes?
Here is a nice list of African game species for big game hunters. The list includes 11 species of Hartebeest, 3 species of Wildebeest, 2 Gnu, 23 species of Duiker, 8 species of Antelope, 11 species of Dikdik, 3 species of Kob, 6 species of Waterbuck, 9 species of Reedbuck, 3 species of Impala, 20 species of Gazelle, 4 species of Kudu, 4 species of Eland, 8 species of Bushbuck, and 4 species of Buffalo.
http://www.wild-about-you.com/AfricaGame.htm
How about 2 ea. of the 3800 species of lizards?
There are 50 species of rabbits.
There are 36 species of wild cats.
There are 30 species of gophers.
There is no way all of these species fit on any boat the size of which could have been built at the time.
This doesn’t include the room to provide for feeding feeding them all - especially those predators that only live by eating other animals - so don’t forget to bring on a few thousand mice for all those species of snake just to eat on that 40 day voyage.. And a few hundred thousand insects for the spiders to live on.
The waste matter alone would over-run the Ark in a few days, unless you had a thousands of people to clean the holding champers at least weekly.
I don’t recall the bible saying the animals were put into suspended animation for the trip, so they had to eat, pee & poop.
You wouldn’t have room for this on a Supertanker today, let alone the little Ark.
People apparently don’t think this through.
The story of Noah’s Ark is a good little parable, very likely based on some great flood myth based on historical reality in which Noah put some livestock on a boat to restart his farms or built a large barn on a mountain above flood stage.
It is a nice little story, but when I ask people to consider the real world challenge it would take to save at least 2 of every land animal SPECIES in the world and feed them and clean up after them, peoples eyes just glaze over, muttering “God’s will”, and give me answers like you did - a complete non-answer because I don’t know the architect of the universe.
Maybe not, but I know current biology.
You have no problems with God being powerful enough to flood the world, but you get hung up on the logistics? If He can flood the planet, He can handle the animal problems as an afterthought.