Noah's Ark

April adorsey@netusa1.net
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 10:14:26 -0600 (00901055666, 199807211441.KAA19021@gatem02.netusa1.net)



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> April wrote:
> >Let's not forget the fish. (Everyone forgets the fish...sigh.) Ocean
> >water is salt, rainwater is fresh. So all that rain would have made the
> >total water brackish (between salt and fresh), which very few water
animals
> >can stand for more than a short time. So Noah also has to have nearly
all
> >the fish, as well as the water mammals (can you say "whales"?) ON the
ark.
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> STEVE
> Good point April. Actually when you think about it, Noah would
> have had to cover the whole of the world's landmass collecting
> the millions of species from each environmental niche. Then
> he would have had to put them all back again. You can't just
> kick a subtropical species out of the boat in Turkey and expect
> it to survive for instance. Now how big does your boat have to
> be to hold a few millions species and their food? Each type of
> freshwater fish would have to go back to its correct part of the world.
> boyo... what a task and not a word of it mentioned in
> the bible.
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And I didn't mention the plants. The bible says every living thing died, so that had to include the plants. Noah would have had to had the seeds of all the different plants, as well. And how did he keep the polar bears cold enough, and the snakes warm enough? April
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