How Could Noah and His Family Care for the Many Animals on Board the Ark?
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jacfar-Holland
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The short answer is: it's a FAIRY TALE -- don't sweat the details.
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It wouldn't have been too hard if he took baby animals instead of full grown ones :)
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Valid, and interesting question. As with many stories in the Bible, this one is either allegorical or a pure fabrication. Obviously, if you were to take a pair of every living creature on earth today, you would have to build an Ark that would dwarf the Queen Mary II, the largest aircraft carrier and the largest ship, combined. And that still wouldn't be large enough. So the story must represent a message, a parable if you will, about how God appeared angry with the way things were going and decided to "start over" with a new stock of living beings. Whatever happened to all the other people in the entire world? They definitely appear in the Bible in a time too short for them to have been fathered by dissident ex-Arkers. So we turn to the message and call the story allegorical. Another argument for not taking the Bible too literally. Also, you might note the God of the Old Testament did things like this but he God of the New Testament was much kinder and more loving.
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Well, it wasn't like there was much else for them to do except cruise around in the rain and care for the animals. . .
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