In over 200 cultures, there are stories of a great ancient flood - the most familiar (in the Western community) being of Noah in the book of Genesis. As the story goes, God told Noah to build a massive wooden boat and load a male and female of every animal species into it. Then God flooded the earth by making it rain for 40 days and 40 nights, wiping away the wicked. Dealing with the flood story(-ies), there are some subjects that creationists fail to shine light upon - how was Noah and his sons able to construct a boat in which size and purpose require knowledge in fields that weren’t used until thousands of years later? How were the animals brought upon the ark if most were either extinct or unable to where Noah was? How did they survive
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Now, ancient shipbuilding did achieve new levels of technological sophistication, but this was when vessels were being made much smaller compared to the size the Ark (Moore, 1983). This level of complexity surfaced slowly over centuries: nearly a millennium passed while Egyptian boat lengths increased from 150ft to 200ft (Casson, p.17). The nearest approach to this level is the Great Pyramid of Cheops, which comes within two thousand years of Noah’s Voyage. This enormous leap in size, skill, and safety required is too far vast for any naturalistic …show more content…
The egg-eating snake eats only amniotic eggs. The Pen-Tailed Tree Shrew only drinks naturally fermented nectar of the Bertram palm. Each plant species has at least one animal that eats only that plant type. An Ark, made of wood and without prior knowledge of shipbuilding and/or the mechanics behind shipbuilding, would not have been able to carry every single plant and animal species, along with the added cargo to feed the carnivores on the Ark. How did meat eating animals survive in a structure that is holding the most crucial cargo know yet? How were these special diets provided? Also, keeping the food that Noah, his family, and the animals ate fresh would have been a major concern, considering the duration of the voyage. These large quantities of food would have brought many infestations during this period, along with the humidity inside the Ark providing the ideal environment for molds. Provided that there were only eight people aboard the Ark, how could this single-digit crew care for over 16000 animals while undergoing the major challenges of special dieting and pest
Now, ancient shipbuilding did achieve new levels of technological sophistication, but this was when vessels were being made much smaller compared to the size the Ark (Moore, 1983). This level of complexity surfaced slowly over centuries: nearly a millennium passed while Egyptian boat lengths increased from 150ft to 200ft (Casson, p.17). The nearest approach to this level is the Great Pyramid of Cheops, which comes within two thousand years of Noah’s Voyage. This enormous leap in size, skill, and safety required is too far vast for any naturalistic …show more content…
The egg-eating snake eats only amniotic eggs. The Pen-Tailed Tree Shrew only drinks naturally fermented nectar of the Bertram palm. Each plant species has at least one animal that eats only that plant type. An Ark, made of wood and without prior knowledge of shipbuilding and/or the mechanics behind shipbuilding, would not have been able to carry every single plant and animal species, along with the added cargo to feed the carnivores on the Ark. How did meat eating animals survive in a structure that is holding the most crucial cargo know yet? How were these special diets provided? Also, keeping the food that Noah, his family, and the animals ate fresh would have been a major concern, considering the duration of the voyage. These large quantities of food would have brought many infestations during this period, along with the humidity inside the Ark providing the ideal environment for molds. Provided that there were only eight people aboard the Ark, how could this single-digit crew care for over 16000 animals while undergoing the major challenges of special dieting and pest