Noahs inbred family tree

Dave Gaban drrod@slip.net
Mon, 04 Jan 1999 15:05:32 -0800 (00915512732, 36914932.4178@slip.net) 

Joseph Crea wrote:

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> Hello, Dave!

> 

> At 01:28 PM 1/4/99 -0800, Dave Gaban wrote:

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> --snip--

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> DAVE

> >My creationist brother-in-laws believe there were dinosaurs on the >earth at the same time as humans. It struck me as so absurd, I forgot >to ask if the Dinosaurs were on the Ark with the other 1,000,000 land >animals. If so, the Ark was 400 and someodd feet long. Apatosaurus was >60ft long (X2), Barosaurus was 88.5 ft long (X2), Diplodocus carnegii >was 90ft long (X2)and Brachiosaurus brancai was 82 ft (X2) not to >mention all the other large Sauropods and the large carnivores.  And >don't forget, God told Noah to bring enough food for all the animals: >Genesis 6:21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and >store it away as food for you and THEM.

>A starvation diet of only 100lbs of plant material a day, for 365 days

>for 2 African elephants would be 73,000 lbs. Where did he keep all the

>food????????

> 

> CREA

>     The "standard" creationist answer is that God, in his infinite >wisdom and mercy, cast all the animals into a deep sleep (like he did >to Adam when He created Eve) for the duration (estivation?, >hibernation?, who knows?). Noah & Sons' duties would have thus >consisted of periodically waking the livestock, feeding & watering them >and disposing of accumulated wastes. This scheme supposedly reduced >what would have been a patently impossible task to the merely >improbable.  Does it work?  I don't think so -- but hey, we're told >that "with God all things are possible"  (Matthew 19:26), and >creationists (along with inerrantists) are fond of repeating this >mantra whenever confronted with those aspects of reality which fail to >comform to their expectations.

> 

Dave G.
I've heard this creationist cop out before, but there is nothing for
them to base it on.  There are several problems: 1) nowhere in the 
story is it mentioned that the animals were made to sleep. It could have
been and should have been mentioned by an all knowing God.
2) Most land animals do not hibernate/estivate.
3) Where did they keep the 700,000 known insect species?
4) If they took only the young of each species (another unsubstantiated
claim), what did the predators eat after leaving the Ark for the period
required for the prey animals to breed to a stable population.