[How did Noah get food for all the millions of animals inside the ark for a whole year?]
All animals ate vegetation as did noah and his family.
How do people grow things in their house.
We can do it in our house Noah could have done the same thing in the ark. The animals were controlled by God. its possible God also put them into hibernation mode.
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Funny how the the bible never mentions any of that stuff.
"And God said onto Noah 'Yae and verily, one deck of the ark shall have a vegetable garden, make sure it gets plenty of sunlight and fresh air. A few hanging pots and flowerboxes wouldn't go amiss either. And to save on food, I shall put all the animals in hibernation mode.'"
Show me that passage (or something to that effect) in the bible, and I swear I'll join the church right this minute.
"They use pots or window seals. Its possible on one deck Noah had soil and had a garden made in the ark on one deck."
He also had one fucking window.
"We can do it in our house Noah could have done the same thing in the ark. The animals were controlled by God. its possible God also put them into hibernation mode."
Most animals don't hibernate and if god is going to do that why not just magic them out of existence, flood the earth and then magic them back like nothing happened?
So...every species on earth, and a garden large enough to feed all these species for 40 days, (even the carnivores) all on a single boat.
Yeah, "hibernation mode" is less retarded. And if you are willing to posit magical suspended animation, I am not even sure why Noah needed to do anything: God could have just preserved and protected the necessary animals himself through usage of magic.
It is pointless and childish trying to put logic and rationality to work on myth.
Of its very nature, myth is that which seeks to explain to the Unconscious what cannot be grasped by the conscious mind. Exercises in reasonable explanation, apart from being doomed to failure and ridicule, are utterly futile because myth does not work like that.
"It is possible..." etc. You do not know. You can never know. It is therefore vain and stupid to go down this path of pseudo reasoning. Just take it unquestioningly as a wonderful story that is telling something that is to be understood on a deeper level by the non-rational part of the mind.
I'm with Werewolf.
It never happened.
All animals ate vegetation?
But, but, you fundies insist that carnivores appeared because of ORIGINAL SIN. And, maybe I'm counting a bit off, but that occurred several hundred years before Noah according to Genesis. So... how could they all be back on grass again?
What happened to plants during the flood? How did herbivores ever survive the post-flood world? Did Noah have to save all plant species too?
Oh, wait. With a more accurate creation vocablulary: Did Noah have to save all kinds of plants too?
Am I the only one who would love it if there really WERE a Q/A section called "Absurdity"?
Also, biological fail! Not every creature is made to eat plants. And you've gotta be fucking kidding me if you think a lion will pass up that delicious-smelling zebra for a basketful of carrots.
Or maybe God shrunk all the animals until they were really, really tiny; or made it so they didn't have to eat or poop. No, I've got it - they were all dead, and then when the Flood was over, God brought them back to life! Orrrrrr ... He made them transparent, like ghosts, so they could walk through each other. Or wait, wait! Maybe He created, you know, like this portal into the fourth dimension so they could all fit in the same three-dimensional space!
See, it's easy to explain when you have a magician who can do anything and you can just pull explanations out of thin air.
Its possible on one deck Noah had soil and had a garden made in the ark on one deck."
It's also possible to grow plants in the dark on a deck thats pitching and rolling in the storm causing the dirt to fly all over the place.
I can live with you guys not accepting evolution. Doesn't personally effect your life on a day-to-day basis and won't give you predudiced opinions about other people
that stupid impossible boat, impossible flood story gets on my nerves
It rained for forty days and nights. The ark floated around for a whole year before dry ground reappeared. What did Noah feed the 300+ species of hummingbirds? I can understand that the ark could support 4,000+ species of termites, but it just sounds like a bad idea.
Old Viking - "And all of those plants were the "don't-need-any-sunlight-for-40-days" variety."
Shrooms! They thrive on manure. No wonder the animals all felt like hibernating, they were stoned.
@ Mudflappus
What I was thinking. This ark voyage lasted more than 40 days, wasn't it something like a year? (Damn if I want to go look it up) So this garden would have to be roughly the size of oh, let's say half the world or thereabouts. Or, with all the shit in the bottom of the boat maybe they all grew and ate shrooms. How about it, Greg, been shroomin' too much lately?
And "window seals"? What, silicone caulking around the edge?
Yes, and presumably Noah was a Time Lord too. The fact he packed millions of different species into such a small space (which not even the currently biggest vessel on the planet, Jahre Viking/Knock Nevis, could possibly contain) was proof the Ark was actually a TARDIS. And, like The Doctor's, it's Chameleon Circuit had malfunctioned and stuck into the appearance of a wooden boat, amirite?
Your suggestion for how the garden could have worked makes sense, but you missed a few details. First, the ark would only have had species native to Mesopotamia (the setting, which at the time was considered to be the whole world). Second, the flood is recorded as lasting for roughly two months, not a whole year.
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